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Big, bad, and super cool

Even if you haven't read the Fables comic series, you undoubtedly know most of the major players in Telltale's upcoming The Wolf Among Us. It's set in a universe where Snow White, Mr. Frog, and Little Boy Blue are forced out of their worlds and into ours. Now, hiding out in a community called Fabletown, they're under the protection of the the sheriff, Bigby Wolf. You might know him as the Big Bad Wolf. Yeah. That one.

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It's also super violent, as we found during our demo. Playing as the Big Bad Wolf has a different feel than playing as a scared apocalypse survivor, and the gameplay adapts accordingly in the instances when he needs to flex his big bad muscles. During a fight with the Woodsman (the one who fought him in Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother's cabin) he tossed the drunken brute around the room. Quick-time-events prompted him to dodge attacks, and he was able to choose how to approach beating his former rival senseless. It looked like a blast, and we're really looking forward to jumping into the five-episode series when it launches later this year.

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