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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is the detective game that Murdered: Soul Suspect should've been but wasn't. It's Dear Esther with gameplay. It's Myst for the new generation. It's really quite brilliant.

Oh also, those textures are unfathomably detailed and gorgeous and I cannot imagine how long it must've taken to build a world that looks this good down the very last grain of sand. I found myself purposefully walking into walls or staring at rocks just to take in all the minute detail. I swear I did not see even one repeated texture throughout. Impressive stuff!

The Wolf Among Us can best be summarised as the love-child of The Walking Dead and LA Noire, set in the world of Once Upon a Time...

TellTale Games have taken the winning formula of Cell Shaded "choose-your-own-adventure" psycho-drama from The Walking Dead, and applied it to the world of Fable, with spectacular results.

If you enjoyed Walking Dead, Wolf Among Us improves upon the genre in several key ways. Firstly, your choices are now more immediately meaningful. Rather than having only "emotional" and minor story consequences to your actions, Wolf Among Us gives you a more involved gameplay through some very LA Noire style detective sequences. You have to use genuine powers of observation, deduction, and memory, to figure out what exactly is going on and catch people in lies when they try to deceive you. Success of failure here means the difference between solving a crime and being kept in the dark as the story progresses, and your list of suspects and choices changes dynamically depending on how much you've managed to work out.

The action in the game is greatly improved, also. The Quick-Time Events feel faster, more fluid and dynamic, and less repetative here. Fight sequences are very immersive, giving you a genuine sense of actually being in the fight rather than observing it and pressing the occassional button. Overall it's much more satisfying then repeatedly kicking a zombie in the face.

The final key improvement, is in the art direction. The whole game is dripping with style, from the art, through the animation, all the way up to the soundtrack. Everything is superbly well done and atmospheric, with superb voice acting and characters, and the kind of emotional punch you expect from the "Walking Dead" pros. The game is instantly recognisable as a film noir style adventure, and the brooding adult tones throughout really intensify the whole experience.

Highly recommended for fans of LA Noire, Mass Effect, The Walking Dead, etc...