Rather unsurprisingly the recent Portal 2 trailer has caused much excitement among the gaming community, of course the new gaming elements have much to do with it but it would be remiss of me to say that it didnt have anything to do with the featured personality core, the bumbling, british personality core Wheatley.

Recently there  has been division about the voice actor for Wheatly. You see, for the Trailer they had Richard Lord, an animator for Valve, to play the wonderful Wheatley. Richard Lord, in case it wasn’t obvious, is not an experienced voice actor but this hasn’t stopped Wheatley from becoming incredibly popular very quick.  It’s only recently been announced that since Richard Lord was a stand in, Wheatley will be voiced by an actual voice actor but already someone has made a petition to keep him. (Which you can find here)

Conversely, a lot of people actually complained that the voice wasn’t suited at all for the personally core.  All that being said, Valve clearly hadn’t finished putting all the voice effects on Wheatley which would make his voice a lot more suited. Still, an actual actor would probably improve Wheatley no end, even if you were a fan of Richard Lord imagine Wheatley voiced by someone like… say Simon Pegg. Food for thought.

Well, Here is the Wheatley Trailer (in HD) just in case you missed it.