The Walking Dead

[jeremym480]

I came across this while skimming through my monthly Game Informer. Then scoured the internets for any info. Here's what I found:

As noted earlier today, Telltale Games has gone ahead and made the news official: It has come to a deal with Robert Kirkman to create multiple videogames based on comic book series The Walking Dead. It's a "multi-year, multi-platform, multi-title" deal that will see the first game released sometime in the fourth quarter of 2011, IGN reports.

http://www.1up.com/news/walking-dead-videogame-real

[Bullit]

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This would be really great if it is done right and with the original IP in mind. I have high hopes, just don't want to get to excited.

[oneamongthefence]

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I agree. It would make for a good Sims type game tho.

[DakkoN]

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I agree. It would make for a good Sims type game tho.

Pretty sure I wouldn't be able to think of a worse idea, even if I tried, than a Sims style zombie game... I'm not even sure how that would work...

[oneamongthefence]

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I feel like a straight up shooter would do the series a disservice. People are trying to lead normal lives despite the undead outbreak. There's more conflict between the humans than there are the zombies. People try to nurture relationships and survive. Which is essentially what the sims games are. Maybe an mmo. Have different factions that can work together or against each other. An rts may work also.

[Burns11]

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This is Telltale, I would expect an adventure game ripped from the late 90's.

[Flawless]

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Kotaku

The folks at Telltale are bringing an ink and watercolor aesthetic to the The Walking Dead game that they say strives to match the visual style of comic artist Charlie Adlard. The 3D adventure game will feature a distinctively loose concept art approach, with textures designed with ink lines and watercolor streaks in mind.

The above screen from The Walking Dead gives us a peek at the game's main character, Lee, an Atlanta man who is en route to a Georgia prison when the zombie apocalypse begins to spread. Things obviously don't go as planned during his prison transport and eventually he teams up with a young girl who has lost her family to the undead.

Telltale says The Walking Dead episodic game series will be unlike most zombie video game fare, a game that is a more personal story built on narrative, but not moral, choices. They talked about an adventure game stuffed with moment-to-moment micro-choices, a game more experiential than your typical horror game.

Players will be forced to make hard decisions over the course of the game, whether to save the life of one person over that of another's, for example, but that The Walking Dead may be the "easiest" zombie game you've ever played. (Telltale still stressed that the game would require some thought and skill, but that the game's slow-moving zombies wouldn't require expert virtual marksmanship and undead survival skills to complete.)

Telltale Games expects to have more to show of The Walking Dead by this year's New York Comic Con.

[goh]

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I'm curious about how they'll handle the action. Certianly hasn't been Telltale's speciality.

[Money99]

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PLEASE don't be in first-person!

[OSUFan_88]

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a game that is a more personal story built on narrative, but not moral, choices.

Um, so...yeah, doesn't that kinda go against everything the Walking Dead Comic is about?

[goh]

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Screens: http://www.gamesradar.com/new-walkin...ly-phenomenal/

[jwilphl]

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I actually think an open-world zombie game would be excellent fun. I'm not saying The Walking Dead is the vehicle for that, however. I guess Red Dead sort of introduced this idea already, but I'm thinking something with a more modern setting. I could see that going many different ways.

This specific game is an interesting idea but honestly I'm not a huge fan of Telltale.

[Bondgirl0072]

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I don't know a thing about The Walking Dead. So I am guessing it is about Zombies.

[Ollienyy]

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I don't know a thing about The Walking Dead. So I am guessing it is about Zombies.

google is your friend...

[Brandwin]

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I actually think an open-world zombie game would be excellent fun. I'm not saying The Walking Dead is the vehicle for that, however. I guess Red Dead sort of introduced this idea already, but I'm thinking something with a more modern setting. I could see that going many different ways.

This specific game is an interesting idea but honestly I'm not a huge fan of Telltale.

That would be pretty awesome if done right. A GTA type zombie game. I'm in!