Half Voice Acting, or no Voice Acting?

So for a map I've started work on, there's gonna be quite a few cinematics. I was thinking that voice acting would be cool, but for the playable characters... well... I can't really mimic the Soundsets as precisely as I would want to.

So I was thinking I have three options (The Title lies!):
1. No Voice acting. Simple, easy, but not as pleasing for a story-rich map.
2. Give the non-playable characters voice acting in the cinematics. This way you don't have the odd shift from soundset voice to Cinematic voice, but still feel somewhat immersed. At the same time, the disjointed voices would probably detach the players, and simply remind them that they are, in fact, playing a map.
3. Complete Voice-acting. This makes the cinematics alone quite interesting, but coupled with the Soundsets on return to play would be odd. While that isn't bad as the Gameplay and Story are already slightly seperate due to the nature of the cinematics, non-cinematic transmissions would be much different.

So basically, what do you guys think?

Can't the soundsets be replaced?

Yeah, if you get good voice actors you should go all in and have custom sound sets as well.

Recruit Blizzard's voice actors.

Hmm, true. i hadn't thought of that. Would certainly be interesting.

I know back in SC, people would make each unit make a different type of short "grunt", denoting its voice and temper, and the proper dialogue just in text.

Like:


Footman
Voice: "Ahh!"
Text: "General, our forces are under attack!"

The other option is to have custom soundsets, and no cinematic voice acting. Wanderers of Sorceria did this.

You can recruit me.

No, wait, let me reword that.

You HAVE to recruit me. No, really, please. I'd love a chance to do some voice acting. Please recruit me? [Insert cute emote here that will inevitably seduce you into recruiting me.]