Much like the novels and the TV show, Game Of Thrones is a huge sprawling universe stuffed full of memorable characters, impressive locations and dangerous turns. However, limiting a gaming experience to just a single character would be tantamount to criminal offence in a world this large. Can you imagine navigating the labyrinth of court politics in King's Landing, surviving the vast wastes beyond the Wall with the Night's Watch and traversing your way across Slaver's Bay all with a single character? No. There is never going to be one character who can encounter and experience all the locales Westeros has to offer without severely compromising on content. Rather than dampen the experience and bend the limits of Westeros' reality, why not have multiple characters each with different plot lines? As the game progresses these narratives could converge for a final showdown, much as we expect them to in the novels and TV show. Simply sticking to just the political role playing of King's Landing or the hack and slash of battle on the field would pigeon hole the game into a narrow unsatisfying experience. By broadening the scope of the story and it's characters, so too does the possibility for different styles of play and locations to uncover grow. If there has ever been a case for proving multiple characters in a single story don't work, GTA V and Final Fantasy before it squashed it. In a world as vast as this, there are almost endless possibilities.
When not writing Chris spends more time thinking about playing videogames than actually playing them and can usually be found reorganizing his Blu Ray and book collections. He owns four different editions of A Song of Ice and Fire and no, it isn't overkill. He's left the neon haze of Tokyo and Seoul for the more sedate streets of Bournemouth.
