Push Square: "Telltale Games’ award winning take on The Walking Dead was inspired by PlayStation 3 exclusives such as Uncharted and Heavy Rain. Chatting with Red Bull UK, co-founder Dan Connors explained that the team spent a lot of time analysing the Sony-published titles during development, in addition to movies and TV shows."
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Before the announcement that a heavily narrative focussed Walking Dead video game was announced in 2012, Telltale games was a development studio that not particularly well known. Despite putting out other similar properties with Back to the Future: The Game and Jurassic Park: The Game, the products were largely met with a very mixed and ultimately tepid response from the public. The rampant acclaim and runaway success reached with The Walking Dead launched the developer into one of the most anticipated and favourable studios out there with one revolutionary product.
I think the walking dead story telling is amazing. I really love the games and think that they bring the respect of gaming story telling up in the world of entertainment in general :)
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well ps3 exclusives are the best of there kind. look at
demons souls
metal gear solid 4
uncharted
god of war
the last of us
heavy rain
twisted metal
infamous
littlebigplanet
all of these games brought something new to the industry, so its no wonder the walking dead was inspired by playstation games that were brought forth from an inspired mind sony gave the time and money to bring the about.
raise the bar with ps3`s exclusives !
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It's great that other games inspired them but at least tell the whole story. This is what's in the article:
"Connors and the team drew inspiration from the comics, as well as more traditional action adventure games - and of course TV."
"I think the games that we talked about the most during development were Heavy Rain and Uncharted from a cinematic standpoint, and Mass Effect from a choice standpoint,” he explains."
"For other media we always look at the best episodic series out there - obviously the Walking Dead TV show, but also Game of Thrones and Mad Men, for the way they handle characters and are able to present them with so much depth."
So it seems the inspiration came from a variety of things.
PS3 exclusives win Game of the Year. Otherwise it's been a multiplatform game. So no surpise there.
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