There’s a lot to be said about the first season, and the attempts later seasons (and creative teams) made to live up to that standard. Choice-based episodic games became a format within their own right, and it’s fair to say that the focus of many video games today took inspiration from The Walking Dead on some level. There’re varying arguments to be made on its wider impact on gaming, but at the very least that commitment to the writing reinvigorated the adventure game genre, and spawned not only a rapid boom and bust for Telltale but influenced other companies, such as Dontnod Entertainment with the seminal Life is Strange. It received widespread online attention for its characters and tone, and was the recipient of over eighty Game of the Year awards. ![]() Telltale’s 2012 tie-in adventure game for The Walking Dead took the world by storm.
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