The Walking Dead: 9 Reasons The Game Is Better Than The Show
5. Less Characters, More Focus
AMCs The Walking Dead boasts a cast larger than most dramas. Its not Game of Thrones big, but it can still be difficult to keep everyones sub-plot straight. We got to know a lot of the main characters back when the show was smaller and that is why they are still important to us today. The bigger the cast gets, the less desperate their lives seem to be. In the current season of the show they reached a settlement called Alexandria and the cast of characters nearly doubled. Telltales version of The Walking Dead follows a group of survivors, but they keep the amount of people under manageable numbers simply for the sake of making each one truly mean something. In the first season of the game, we spend a lot of time getting to know the likes of Kenny, Carley, or Christa and Omid. Whether or not they lived or died mattered far more because we genuinely related to them. The player becomes emotionally attached and if we fail to save someone from our group, it means a lot more than watching a cast member we barely knew in the first place get eaten alive.
