Chris Sutherland is a former employee of Rare Ltd., the co-founder of Playtonic Games (alongside Gavin Price), and famous for being the voice of both Banjo and Kazooie from its Banjo-Kazooie series, this among his other works related to the field of video game voice acting. He was the project director of Yooka-Laylee, and the voice actor for both Yooka and Laylee for Yooka-Laylee and Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair.
Career[]
In 1989, Sutherland joined the British video game company Rare as a programmer for The Amazing Spider-Man (1990) on Game Boy. Later, he became the lead programmer for Donkey Kong Country (1994), and was responsible for implementing the game's pre-rendered graphics, a process he described as challenging due to the need to reduce the characters' frames of animation. He continued to act as lead programmer for its sequel, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (1995), and Banjo-Kazooie (1998) and Banjo-Tooie (2000). During this time, Sutherland provided voice acting for characters in several Rare games, including as Diddy Kong in Diddy Kong Racing (1997) and Donkey Kong 64 (1999), as well as the Banjo-Kazooie series' eponymous characters in all of their appearances. Additionally, he has appeared as the announcer for all three games in the Killer Instinct series.
In 2014, Sutherland left Rare and became one of the founding members of Playtonic Games, alongside other Rare employees including Steve Hurst, Steve Mayles, Gavin Price, Jens Restemeier, and Mark Stevenson.
Notable Works[]
- The Amazing Spider-Man (1990)
- Sneaky Snakes (1991)
- Battletoads (1993) - Vocals
- Killer Instinct (1994) - Character Voice
- Donkey Kong Country (1994) - Head Programmer/Vocals
- Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong's Quest (1995) - Head Programmer/Vocals
- Killer Instinct 2 (1996) - Character voice
- Diddy Kong Racing (1997) - Character voices (voiced Diddy Kong, Banjo, Krunch, and Taj the Genie)
- Banjo-Kazooie (1998) - Character voices (voiced Banjo and Kazooie)
- Donkey Kong 64 (1999) - Support Team (voiced Diddy Kong, Chunky Kong, Krusha and King K. Rool)
- Perfect Dark (2000) - Voice Actor
- Perfect Dark (Gameboy Color) (2000) - Voice Actor
- Banjo-Tooie (2000) - Chief Programmer/Character voices (voiced Banjo and Kazooie)
- Star Fox Adventures (2002) - Voice (voiced Snowhorn Tribe)
- Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour (2003) - Character voice (voiced Diddy Kong)
- Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (2003) - Character voice (voiced Diddy Kong)
- Grabbed by the Ghoulies (2004) - Voice
- Kameo: Elements of Power (2005) - Voice
- Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble (GBA: 2005) - Vocals
- Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (2008) - Voice Actor (voiced Banjo and Kazooie)
- Kinect Sports (2010) - Production
- Kinect Sports: Season Two (2011) - Production
- Killer Instinct (2013) - Voice: Announcer 2
- Mario Golf: World Tour (2014) - Character voice (Diddy Kong)
- Killer Instinct (2014) - Voice: Classic Announcer
- Kinect Sports Rivals (2014) - Production
- Yooka-Laylee (2017) - Project Director, Software Engineer, Voice Actor