Telltale Games has made a name for themselves by releasing episodic "choose your own" adventure games sprinkled with quick time events. From Back to the Future to The Walking Dead to The Wolf Among Us, the engine has remained the same, but the art style and writing has improved tremendously.
The Wolf Among Us is near perfection of this template. I jumped in wanting to give it a quick look, but found I couldn't pull myself away, not for a second. I felt this way about the previous Telltale series, too, but they really hit the nail on the head when it comes to the pacing of plot and action sequences in Wolf.
Telltale has a great record when selecting source material, and this time is no different. I'm a comic book guy who mostly sticks with Marvel Superheroes and Osamu Tezuka books. I've browsed through the Fables books that Wolf is based on only to put them down after discovering they weren't as purely fantastical as the title and sometimes deceptive covers would suggest. If I wanted grit, I would read Daredevil. After playing the first episode of Wolf, my folly in not acknowledging the brilliance of the Fables world was evident.
There is an excellent cast of heavily flawed characters that make this supernatural South Bronx community come alive. The protagonist, Bigby Wolf (Big B Wolf, get it?), is put through the wringer in this episode, and you can swing him into whichever direction you wish. Some of these malicious characters deserve a beating, and you play just the right guy to give it to them. A lot of gut decisions are made under short deadlines, but sometimes your gut is outrageous and you can only see clearly after committing to horrendous actions.
If you've never played an episode of a Telltale adventure game, you owe it to yourself to give this cinematic interactivity a try. At the least, it's the future of adventure games, and it may even be the future of television and comics.
The Wolf Among Us is near perfection of this template. I jumped in wanting to give it a quick look, but found I couldn't pull myself away, not for a second. I felt this way about the previous Telltale series, too, but they really hit the nail on the head when it comes to the pacing of plot and action sequences in Wolf.
Telltale has a great record when selecting source material, and this time is no different. I'm a comic book guy who mostly sticks with Marvel Superheroes and Osamu Tezuka books. I've browsed through the Fables books that Wolf is based on only to put them down after discovering they weren't as purely fantastical as the title and sometimes deceptive covers would suggest. If I wanted grit, I would read Daredevil. After playing the first episode of Wolf, my folly in not acknowledging the brilliance of the Fables world was evident.
There is an excellent cast of heavily flawed characters that make this supernatural South Bronx community come alive. The protagonist, Bigby Wolf (Big B Wolf, get it?), is put through the wringer in this episode, and you can swing him into whichever direction you wish. Some of these malicious characters deserve a beating, and you play just the right guy to give it to them. A lot of gut decisions are made under short deadlines, but sometimes your gut is outrageous and you can only see clearly after committing to horrendous actions.
If you've never played an episode of a Telltale adventure game, you owe it to yourself to give this cinematic interactivity a try. At the least, it's the future of adventure games, and it may even be the future of television and comics.