10 Video Games That Broke All The Rules

6. The Walking Dead

These days, The Walking Dead probably doesn't appear all that unique. There have been so many games since that have embraced the same kind of cinematic, player-driven storytelling it helped popularised, and Telltale as a company came to be known almost exclusively for catering to this niche.

However, at the time, the first season of the company's best work broke the rules of what was expected from an adventure game. Before TWD, games in the genre were concerned primarily with puzzle-solving and exploration, but Telltale mostly dropped this angle with this tie-in, replacing it with a focus on player choice and storytelling.

The puzzles were no longer the draw, and it was the characters, writing and the idea that you were in control of who lived and who died which took became the main hook. It sounds like an obvious, natural transition today, but at the time it was hella risky to assume fans would take to this new vision of the genre.