Gex (character)



Gex is a wise-cracking gecko that has starred in several of his own games and served as a mascot for Crystal Dynamics. His hobbies are watching late-night TV and quoting from old movies. He is voiced by comedian Dana Gould.

Background history


Gex is distraught after the death of his father and spends all of his time watching TV. One day his mother inherits a load of money and gives Gex his share. Gex buys a house on Maui, buys the worlds biggest big-screen TV, enough food for decades, and seals himself inside the house. Things seem fine until one day while watching TV Gex eats a fly. Only, the fly was sent by the sinister Rez, the lord of the Media Dimension. Rez wants to use Gex as his new mascot. The only way Gex can escape is if he collects TV remote controls and find a way out of the Media Dimension! Gex has to fight his way throug the five different channel-worlds within Rez's network of bad television and movies to reach Rez's domain and defeat him there. These events take place in GEX the first game of the Gex video game series.