The Wolf Among Us

Telltale Games

Episode 1: October 11, 2013, Episode 2: February 4, 2014. Episode 3: April 8, 2014, Episode 4: May 27, 2014 Episode 5: July 8, 2014.

platform

Android , iOS , Mac OS X , Microsoft Windows , PlayStation 3 , PlayStation 4 , PlayStation Vita , Xbox 360 , Xbox One

Game engine

Modified Telltale Tool

genre

Point-and-click adventure

Game mode

Single player

control

Gamepad, mouse, keyboard, touchpad

system advantages
preconditions

Windows XP (SP3)
Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz
3 GB RAM
2 GB storage space
512 MB Nvidia , ATI graphics card
DirectX 9.0c

English

The Wolf Among Us ( English for "The Wolf Among Us") is a point-and-click adventure in episode format. The game is based on the comic book Fables by Bill Willingham . It was created by the California studio Telltale Games developed and published by Vertigo and Warner Bros. distributed Interactive Entertainment. The Wolf Among Us is set in the same fictional world as the comic series and takes place chronologically before the events of the comic, so it is a prequel . The game consists of five episodes. The first was released worldwide on October 11, 2013 for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 , for OS X on October 14, for PlayStation 3 on October 15 in North America, and October 16 in Europe and Australia ; for iOS worldwide on December 4th. In November 2014 versions for PlayStation 4 , PlayStation Vita and Xbox One appeared .

Gameplay

The Wolf Among Us is a point-and-click adventure game in which the player takes control of the game's protagonist , Bigby Wolf . He can move around in the environment and inspect and interact with other characters and objects. It is similar to Telltale's previous game The Walking Dead in that the player can make decisions through his or her actions or dialog options that affect future events in the story, including the events of the following episodes. This includes key decisions such as choosing to chase one suspect while letting the other go for it. As with The Walking Dead , these decisions are recorded by Telltale and the general statistics regarding the main decisions are presented to the player after the completion of each episode so that they can compare them to the decisions of other players. Some of these decisions affect parallel events during the plot. For example, after the decision to choose between two needy people, one learns from the other that she could have used his help sooner.

Some scenes are more action-oriented and require the player to react to a series of Quick Time Events (QTEs). Failure to do so could result in the death of Bigby or another character, but the game will restart at a checkpoint just before this scene to allow the player to try again. In some cases, failing certain QTEs doesn't cause instant death, but makes the action a little different.

development

Steve Allison, senior vice president of marketing at Telltale Games, announced in an interview with the All Things Digital website in February 2011 that Telltale was working on a video game based on the Comic Fables . At the Electronic Entertainment Expo in June 2011, Telltale announced its official plans for a Fables game. After several postponements, the game was announced again at New York Comic Con in October 2012. It was developed under the working title Fables , but it was later learned that it would get a new name in February 2013. The final one is The Wolf Among Us and is named after its main character Bigby Wolf. The first episode was supposed to be released in the first quarter of 2012. It was later postponed to the third quarter of 2012 and then finally postponed again to the third quarter of 2013, then to October 2013. In February 2013 it was learned that due to the success of The Walking Dead , it took Telltale longer than originally expected to develop The Wolf Among Us . Many game mechanics have been implemented in the new game by The Walking Dead .

Releases for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were announced in May 2014 and are due to be released along with retail versions of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 later in the year.

The action of The Wolf Among Us takes place in 1986, decades before the events of the first edition of Fables . For many years, the magical, mystical lands described in myths, legends and folklore , and colloquially referred to in the game as "The Homelands", were given over to an enigmatic tyrant known only as "The Adversary" ("The Homelands"). “The opponent”) is occupied. To escape the marauding armies and the totalitarian regimes of the opponent, fled many characters and creatures that are known in the game as "Fables", the earthly world and founded in colonial America an enclave called "Fabletown" which in modern Manhattan is . In order to cover up their presence from the indigenous people called "the worldly", all non-human "fables" must purchase an enchantment called "Glimmer" that allows them to take on the appearance of humans; otherwise they will be deported to a rural community called "the farm". The rehabilitated Big Bad Wolf , Bigby Wolf, ( dubbed Adam Harrington ) is the sheriff of Fabletown and is responsible for hiding the community from the world and enforcing its laws.

Characters

The Wolf Among Us protagonist is Bigby Wolf, the former Big Bad Wolf. He is the sheriff of Fabletown, who is currently working in the “Business Office” under Deputy Mayor Ichabod Crane , whose secretary Snow White and her Zauberspiegel work on investigations and is supported by Bufkin, a winged monkey who organizes Fabletown's files. Bluebeard also works in the “office”, although its motives are unclear. Bigby lives in the "Woodlands apartments", where he currently allows Colin, one of the Three Little Pigs , to live with him as compensation for having blown his house away. Belle and the Beast also live in the Woodlands, although they are currently struggling with marital problems. One of the fables he is in contact with is " Mr. Toad " and his son TJ (Toad Junior), who live in a shabby apartment complex in the Bronx.

At the beginning of the game, the player is introduced to the woodcutter who lives in the same building as Mr. Toad. He also meets Faith and Prince Lawrence, characters from the fairy tale Allerleirauh . In Bigby's path, Dee and Dum confront Tweedle , twins and thugs who work for an unknown employer. He also meets Holly, a female troll who runs the Trip Trap Bar, and Grendel , one of her regular alcoholic customers. In the second episode, Georgie Porgie, the owner of the strip club Pudding 'n' Pie and Faith's pimp , appears along with his staff Vivian and the clever Hans , the club's bouncer. The third episode introduces Bloody Mary as the killer of the "crooked man," and also Aunty Greenleaf, a renegade witch who sells illegal, cheap, black-market glimmer to fables who get the glimmer on the "thirteenth floor," the only place , on which one can legally obtain mica, cannot afford. The fourth episode introduces Jersey Teufel , manager of the Lucky Pawn pawn shop , and Johann, the former owner of the Cut Above butcher's shop , whose business premises have been taken over by the crooked man's henchmen.

action

Due to the choices the player can make, some details of the plot may differ.

Bigby, the sheriff of Fabletown, saves a young prostitute from the drunken lumberjack and ensures her journey home. The next day he was shocked to find that her severed head was lying in front of the main entrance to his apartment building, the Woodlands. He and Snow White discover that the woman is Faith from the fairy tale Allerleirauh , who had to become a prostitute in order to pay the living expenses for her husband, Prince Lawrence. They find out that the Tweedles, Dee and Dum, have been snooping around Faith's apartment, but flee immediately when caught. Snow returns to the business office while Bigby searches for more clues. When he returns to the Woodlands, he is shocked to find that Snow's head, just like Faith's before, is on the steps of the entrance to the apartment building.

Bigby is brought to the station by the Human Police to testify, but Ichabod Crane, the current Vice Mayor of Fabletown, uses a spell to free him and erase the memory of the incident from the memories and files of all police officers. Back at the business office, they are surprised to find that Snow White is still alive and that the head found by Bigby is actually that of Lily, the sister of Holly the Troll, whose body was disguised in a cheap black market mica. Bigby goes to Lily's last known workplace, the Pudding 'n' Pie, a shabby strip club run by the infamous Georgie Porgie, who forces its employees into prostitution. One of the girls, Nerissa, a former mermaid , tries to talk to Bigby but is unable to do so directly. Instead, she gives him a key to a room in a nearby hotel. In this room, Bigby is shocked to discover a bloody murder scene, in which Lily was obviously killed, but her body cannot be found. Investigating the crime scene reveals that Lily was forced in this room by her client to re-enact the fairy tale Snow White . After further examining the room, Bigby finds unmasking photos of Ichabod Crane with Lily disguised as Snow White.

Hoping to catch Crane, Bigby rushes back to the business office, only to find out that he has already escaped and that the magic mirror, an instrument that can be used to find anyone whose name you know, has been broken and Crane took one of the mirror shards with him, which makes it impossible to repair it. While trying to find Crane, he learns that another faction, which includes the Tweedle brothers, is also looking for Crane. Bigby and Snow manage to find Crane at Georgie's strip club. Meanwhile, Snow begins to question whether Crane is really the killer, and Bigby agrees to take him back to the business office to interrogate him. As they leave the club, they are surrounded in an alley by the crooked man, Bloody Mary, and the Tweedles, who insist on taking Crane themselves. Mary incites Bigby to transform into his wolf form and fight a fierce battle against her and the Tweedles. The wolf man Bigby makes short work of the tweedles, but Mary manages to seriously injure him with a shot with a silver bullet and knock him out completely. Snow intervenes and allows Mary to take Crane with her. Mary ridiculed Bigby and Snow that the crooked man would soon take over Fabletown.

Back in the Woodlands, Bigby recovers and discusses the latest developments in the case with Snow. He reflects on the disturbing events that suddenly led the crooked man to publicize his involvement in the case. Through an unexpected visit from Nerissa, he learns that the collar that each of Georgie's prostitutes must wear prevents them from revealing the truth, and that if such a collar is removed from someone, their head will be chopped off by a spell, which Part of the crooked man's plan is to take control of the people of Fabletown. Through cryptic clues that she gives him, she manages to lead Bigby closer to the missing broken shard of the magic mirror. Bigby also learns from Belle and the Beast that the couple were forced to work for two of the crooked man's subcontractors, a pawnshop run by Jersey's Devil, from whom he learns that the door to the crooked man's hiding place is constantly closed due to lack of funds accidentally moved around town, and a butcher's shop run by Johann the butcher, where the cheap mica that the crooked man sells is made. Bigby finally finds the missing mirror shard during his investigation and returns to the business office, where Bufkin manages to repair the mirror. The Mirror reveals to them that Mary sent Crane to Paris to keep him away from everyone. They also discover the current location of the door to the crooked man's hiding place. Bigby rushes there, only to learn that his appearance was already awaited by the crooked man and his henchmen, which include Mary, the Tweedles, the Jersey Devil, Georgie and Vivian. The crooked man quietly and politely offers Bigby a seat and tells him that he needs to have a word with him about the future administration of Fabletown.

Bigby learns from the crooked man that Georgie murdered Faith and Lily. Georgie claims he received the order from the crooked man. A fight breaks out, in which the crooked man, Mary, Georgie and Vivian escape. Georgie is seriously injured by Bigby. Jersey's Devils and the Tweedles are left with the crooked man's hiding place and won't appear for the remainder of the episode. Bigby eventually turns Georgie into his strip club. Vivian explains that Georgie and the crooked man wanted to prevent a plan initiated by them and the other prostitutes. Vivian explains that she was the first girl to wear a collar and that the other prostitutes' collars are copies of it. This is part of the club's methods of maintaining confidentiality. Since she can no longer live with this guilt, Vivian removes her collar, resulting in her death and all other prostitutes being released from the spell. Georgie, who is about to succumb to his wounds, tells Bigby the whereabouts of the crooked man. Bigby meets Mary at a rolling mill outside of town. In the fight with her, he transforms into his true form, a huge wolf, through which he ultimately succeeds in killing Mary. Bigby confronts the crooked man who insists on being taken to the Woodlands for a fair trial. There the Crooked Man tries to convince the assembled fables that he feels sorry for their problems and that the actions of Snow and Crane are no different from what he himself did. Bigby reveals Georgie's confession, but the burden of proof is initially insufficient for a conviction until Nerissa appears, who has now been freed from the secret spell and reveals that she and several other prostitutes have ordered the crooked man, Georgie, to murder Faith and Lily to ask to have overheard what is ultimately sufficient to convict him. At the end of the process, the player can choose to either execute the crooked man or imprison him. In the epilogue, Bluebeard and the now-appointed Vice Mayor of Fabletown deal with the effects of the crooked man's actions, while Bigby says goodbye to the fables that have to be deported to the farm. Then Bigby meets Nerissa. She admits that she, Faith and Lily planned to blackmail Georgie, and thus the crooked man, in order to get rid of them. When the plan was exposed, Georgie killed Faith. Nerissa was the one who put Faith's head in front of the entrance to the Woodlands to call Bigby on the scene. She also admits she lied about the crooked man's order to incite Georgie to murder the prostitute in order to guarantee his conviction. Nerissa leaves and says goodbye with exactly the same words that Faith Bigby said when they met. Bigby realizes that Faith, who first appeared in Episode 1, could in fact have been Nerissa, disguised in mica (who also admits that she laid Faith's severed head in front of the Woodlands Fables residential complex). She would have deliberately drawn Bigby into the matter in order to carry out her plan - bring down the crooked man. Finally, the player can choose to either run after Faith / Nerissa or let them go. In both cases the further course remains open.

Episodes

The episodes were released for Windows, Xbox 360, OS X, and PS3 almost simultaneously within the same week. The release dates for iOS and PSV usually follow them up around a month apart.

chapter	Publication (for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and iOS)

Episode 1 - "Faith"	PC / Xbox 360: October 11, 2013, Mac: October 15, 2013, PS3: October 16, 2013. iOS: December 4, 2013.
Remarks: The first murder of a Fable in years leads Bigby on the trail of a murderer.

Episode 2 - "Smoke and Mirrors"	PC / Mac: February 4, 2014, Playstation 3 / Xbox 360: February 5, 2014
Remarks: Bigby continues his search for the serial killer who haunts the streets of Fabletown. He also tries to find answers from Faith's pimp Georgie Porgie and gets drawn into Beauty and Beasts affairs.

Episode 3 - "A Crooked Mile"	PC / Mac: April 8, 2014, PS3 / Xbox 360: April 9, 2014. iOS: April 10, 2014.
Remarks: Following a shocking revelation, Bigby is pursuing Ichabod Crane, who is now in hiding.

Episode 4 - "In Sheep's Clothing"	PC / Mac / PS3: May 27, 2014, Xbox 360: May 28, 2014, iOS: May 29, 2014
Remarks: Bigby must go deep into the underworld to find the crooked man before he or Crane are killed.

Episode 5 - "Cry Wolf"	PC / Mac: July 8, 2014, Playstation 3 / XBox 360: July 9, 2014, iOS: July 10, 2014
Remarks: Bigby learns the complete truth about the crooked man's crimes against Fabletown.

reception

Episode 1 - Faith

Episode 1 received positive reviews. The websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the PS3 version a rating of 87% and 85%, the PC version 86.14% and 85% and the Xbox 360 version 80.96% and 82%.

Episode 2 - Smoke and Mirrors

Episode 2 received moderate to good ratings. The average ratings were 84.57% and 82% for the PS3 version, 78.37% and 76% for the PC version, and 73.50% and 73% for the Xbox 360 version.

Episode 3 - A Crooked Mile

The average ratings for Episode 3 were 88.80% and 82% for the PS3 version, 83.10% and 82% for the PC version, and 78.62% and 77% for the Xbox 360 version .

Episode 4 - In Sheep's Clothing

Episode 4 received moderate to good ratings. The PC version received an average rating of 77.50% and 76%, the Xbox 360 version 72.86% and 75%, and the PS3 version 66% and 73%.

Episode 5 - Cry Wolf

The final episode of the first season received good reviews from critics. On average, the PC version got 87.96% and 84%. The Xbox 360 version got 84.77% and 85% and the PS3 version got 76.83% and 75%.

continuation

In July 2017, Telltale Games officially announced a second season. In addition to already known characters, completely new characters should also be encountered. The release date was initially only mentioned as 2018. In September 2018, Telltale Games announced that the second season would no longer appear. However, in December 2019, a trailer for the second season was released on YouTube .

Individual evidence

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