The Late Night Gamer: ecently there has been a sudden rise in the success and amount of “Interactive Movie” games, such as Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls and Telltale’s The Walking Dead. These types of games blend gameplay with a cinematic storytelling that creates an experience similar to playing a film. The most important part of the game comes from your interactivity with the progression of the story, making heart-wrenching and emotional decisions that ultimately root your heartstrings to the game. Interactive Movies are games dedicated to extensive storytelling, rather than innovative gaming.
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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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TWD and Wolf among us,Heavy Rain,Beyond Two souls have a genre of there own
they are not forcing them self on any gamer
and we don't get this type of games alot any way
so they are not taking over any thing
they have there place as a genre among TPS,RPG,FPS genre .etc
Great games come in all shapes and sizes it's good to have choices.
"Sudden rise"? Three games were referenced, of which Heavy Rain was released four years ago. Three games in four years is a "sudden rise"?
I would think that the interactive movie genre was more prevalent in the 90's when there were games like Journeyman Project, Under a Killing Moon, Myst, or 7th Guest. Adventure games were everywhere back then.
I don't think they are taking over, just a new popular genre. I love them but I still like my gameplay games too.
Far from it. Neeext!