Terry Crews is a playable character in Crackdown 3 because he asked to be, Sumo Digital has told Stevivor.
“Terry Crews basically asked us, ‘can I be in the game?’ And we were like, ‘yeah, you can totally be in the game,'” Design Director Gareth Wilson said. “‘Cause the guy, he’s alive, he’s a living agent. He looks like an agent, which is crazy.”
Wilson also confirmed that Crews was meant to be an NPC that helped to drive the narrative, but was shifted to a playable character simply because the actor asked to be.
He came back to us and he was like, ‘could you make me like, a playable guy?’
“We were originally going to use him as kind of part of the narrative and the storyline, and then he came back to us and he was like, ‘could you make me like, a playable guy?’ And we were like, ‘We can totally do that.'”
Crews has also been quite vocal about voicing Doomfist in Blizzard’s Overwatch, though he’s yet to officially get the part.
Stay tuned for more on Crackdown 3. The title heads to Windows PC, Xbox One and Xbox One X on 7 November.