The celebrity lookalike generator used on videogame characters

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Who should play Nathan Drake? Alyx Vance? John Marston? Alan Wake? Computers have the (surprising) answers!

So what makes mine any different? I didn't decide these matches – an all-knowing, face-recognizing, database-searching, algorithm-crunching computer did! In other words, I simply went to one of those online celebrity lookalike generators (in this case,MyHeritage.com) and started uploading popular game characters.

The results were… unexpected.

LIGHTNING (Final Fantasy XIII)

Surprisingly accurate match:

Grossly inaccurate match:



JOHN MARSTON (Red Dead Redemption)

Surprisingly accurate match:

Grossly inaccurate match:



COMMANDER SHEPARD (Mass Effect)

Surprisingly accurate match:

Grossly inaccurate match:



ALYX VANCE (Half-Life)

Surprisingly accurate match:

Grossly inaccurate match:

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