Telltale Games Picks Up Another Property

Jesus Christ, Telltale. ENOUGH.

Fresh on the heels of announcing games based off of movie properties (Jurassic Park: The Game), comics properties (The Walking Dead, Fables), and adventure game properties (King’s Quest) — not to mention two remaining episodes of Back to the Future: The Game, another installment of Puzzle Agent, and involvement in Straandlooper’s Hector series — Telltale Games announced today their plans to release a game based on the television show Law & Order: LA, undoubtedly stemming from the NBC/Universal partnership (which gave us Back to the Future: The Game and Jurassic Park).

Oh. And like the rest of Back to the Future: The Game, Jurassic Park: The Game, Puzzle Agent 2, The Walking Dead, and the two new Hector games (though admittedly, the extent of Telltale’s involvement there is unknown), the game is scheduled to be released sometime in 2011.

A little digging proves that the show, which had been on mid-season hiatus (due in part to major cast shakeups) since late January, began airing again a week before the announcement was made. Furthermore, the show has some of the lowest ratings of the franchise; this feels more like a political move than any sort of genuine love for the show and desire to make it into a good, quality game.

But maybe I’m being too pessimistic. Maybe it’ll be good. After all, it’s not like Telltale’s ever developed anything based on a crime procedural show oh/wait/they/totally/have.