Fresh off their World Series win, the Los Angeles Dodgers have another claim to fame: one of their team members has earned a place in Assassin's Creed Valhalla. Outfielder Cody Bellinger will be playing a character fittingly known as Otta Sluggasson. Bellinger went through the typical character ranks of mo-cap, face modeling and providing the voice for Otta.
In Valhalla, Otta is "a Dane with a knack for hitting rocks very very far," a characterization not too far off from his Arizona-born real-world counterpart, known for racking up the home runs on the baseball diamond. Otta is of course aimed with a large, spiked club that allows him to make his big hits. Otta also has the distinct look of glare-cutting black under his eye typically worn by outfielders like Bellinger.
A video recorded for IGN shows of Bellinger running around and making his swings in a motion capture suit. "[It] felt natural to me," said Bellinger of doing the mo-cap work, "because it was me swinging a bat in a video game and I do that all the time in real life."
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