Thursday, July 19, 2012

The Walking Dead

          When I talk about the Walking Dead, i'm not talking about the television show that I love oh so much, the graphic novels that inspired the television show, or the adventurous point and click style game inspired by the graphic novel. Did I lose you? Well to complete the fucked up circle I just tried to describe, you'll be happy to know that there is a new game on the way that is based on the television show. Simply called "The Walking Dead". The new game was announced on July 6th and with that announcement came a teaser trailer. (shown below)

        The trailer gives way to what time period, place, and who you most likely would be playing as. Ill let you guess.......... If you guessed Daryl Dixon, you'd be correct. At least that's my guess. As well as seeing Daryl, you get a glimpse of the zombies (which are much like the ones on the tv show), Daryl holding a doll (any avid fan of the show can guess who's doll that is.), and a surprise visit from none other than, Merle Dixon. Merle is Daryl's racist, redneck, skinhead, drug addicted, older brother. Sounds fascinating so far....

        This game will be published by Activision and developed by Terminal Reality. We last saw Terminal Reality when they released the anticipated game "Kinect Star Wars". A game that scored mixed to negative reviews. Metacritic.com gave it a 55 with the user score being 3.6 out of 10.  Its not all bad though having developed Nocturne, Bloodrayne, and um um. Forget it. 

      Its scheduled for release sometime in 2013 and with Activision being the publisher, i'm guessing sometime in Q2. Seeing how Activision would probably want to release its not so much anticipated Call of Duty game some time in Novemeber of 2013.

As promised. 
Troy Brake

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