Telltale’s ‘The Wolf Among Us’ Gets A Release Date!

Briefly: We’ve known that Telltale was crafting a game based on Bill Willingham’s Fables comic series for some time now (it was announced all the way back in 2011), but we just found out when we’ll finally be able to get our first taste.

Episode one, titled Faith, will debut worldwide on Xbox 360 and PC/Mac this Friday, October 11th. PS3 players will be waiting a few extra days according to Telltale (but I’d imagine the game will drop with the PSN update on Tuesday). I’m sure that an iPhone/iPad edition will follow, but an iOS launch has not been confirmed at this point.

The first episode will cost Telltale’s standard $4.99, and a season pass for episodes two through five will cost a cool $14.99 at that point.

I’m really looking forward to the title, and to jump into the world of Fables. Telltale’s The Walking Dead was my favourite game of last year, so I’m very excited to see what they do next! Will the story and choices be able to match up to that of their post-apocalyptic adventure game? I sure hope so (but also don’t see how that’s possible).

Take a look at a teaser trailer for The Wolf Among Us below, and let us know if you’ll be picking up the game!

Set prior to the events seen in the first issue of the FABLES comic book series, The Wolf Among Us puts players in the role of Bigby Wolf, a man once more infamously known as The Big Bad Wolf.  Now the sheriff of a hidden community in New York City, exiled from the land of fairy tales, Bigby is tasked by the bureaucrat Snow White to keep order within a society of mythical creatures and characters trying to remain undetected in the world of the mundane.  From a chain-smoking member of ‘The Three Little Pigs,’ to a car-stealing Mr. Toad itching for his next wild ride, The Wolf Among Us examines the lives of beings straight from the pages of myth and lore, now trying to survive on the meanest and most run-down streets of New York City.