The voice of Geralt in CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher saga trained as an actor primarily for theater, but also took roles in movies and TV series. “Building a career primarily around voicing game characters was something that wasn’t even on my radar,” Cockle told Polygon in a video interview. However, that’s exactly what he did starting with 2001’s Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos, his first foray into video game voice acting.