Activision Turning The Walking Dead Into a First-Person Shooter
An anonymous reader writes "Activision, along with developer Terminal Reality, is turning The Walking Dead into a first-person shooter. For those of you who aren't familiar, The Walking Dead is a story about a group of people who are trying to survive the zombie apocalypse. It began as a comic book series, and was adapted into a successful television show by AMC. Now, apparently Activision feels the world needs another zombie shooter, and thinks The Walking Dead is the perfect backdrop. The game will 'revolve around Daryl Dixon and his brother Merle on a "haunting, unforgiving quest to make their way to the supposed safety of Atlanta." Players will control Daryl as they attempt to avoid detection from zombies that hunt using sight, sound and smell and will choose between fighting them or using stealth to avoid detection.' A video game adaptation of the story already exists as an episodic adventure game."
Umm... Another "The Walking Dead" Game? Telltale Games may not have made a FPS, but it's the same thing.
From the sound of it, I almost thought "The Walking Dead" was based on a FPS to begin with.
Heck, next they'll want to make a game out of that awful "Battleship" movie. Oh, wait...
...then, maybe, they'll make a movie out of it.
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Youll be looking for a lost little girl for the first half of the game ...and stuck in one location for the second half.
at least theyll only need 2 maps and it will load quickly...
I will enjoy it. The only thing I didn't like about that game was the complete lack of story.
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If the game is based on the graphic novel and not the tv series, the story will develop very fast.
Activision's marketing machine is going to just entirely obscure the current The Walking Dead games, which are actually, you know, good. Activision's only good for making shitty derivative shooters and this just proves it. Telltale's take on it is visually interesting, plays nicely and generally feels different from the average zombie game.
Such a crying shame most people will come to associate "TWD game" as meaning "generic zombie shooter".
And I was just saying to my friend, "You know what would complete this life? ANOTHER FREAKING ZOMBIE GAME!!!" Nah, I think I'll be passing on that magic.
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Joy. I can see the high-range of options available:
Mission 1: Get Carl in the House
Mission 2: Get Carl into the next House
Mission 3: Get Carl into another House
It claims "The Walking Dead is a story" which is just not true.
they have to move on to the next venture. Although it'd be hard to imagine them lowering the bar anymore than they've set it.
Despite the insane bugs in Tell Tales' Walking Dead (WTF does this happen with every one of their releases? On every platform?) I find it true to the feeling of the comics and also the TV series. I like FPS games, I'm balls deep in Spec Ops: The Line right now; but not every story is best told with bang bang killstreak. Walking Dead is about suspense, and looking at humans as the problem. Not sure how Activision can translate that into a shooter. But I'm also not an asshole who pretends to know what the final product will look like. But I just can't see how this will fit with the narrative.
The entire game will be spent trying to figure out where the hell Carl is...
Would have been more original.
Lemme guess, head game designer will be Jay Wilson of Activision Blizzard!
Actually I haven't played any zombie game yet. All the ones so far look stupid.
Not having high hopes for this one. Developed my terminal reality who gave us BloodRayne, Ghostbusters: The Video Game, and Kinect Star Wars. Published by Ubisoft which hates the PC platform and, if the problems with the newest Ghost Recon are any indication, not too fond of consoles either. It's going to bomb. Even if it's playable, I suspect it'll be mediocre gameplay at best. The only thing it has going for it is the license. Those games are never worth the purchase price.
Please Activision, give us another zombie game. As a bonus, please include a side dish of DRM too.
Call me back when they turn it into a musical.
I hate how everyone and their twin brother are making shooter games where you play in the 3rd person.
Look, Dead Space was NOT scary because I was in 3rd Person.
Postal 3? sucked because I was in 3rd person.
How the fuck can I enjoy a game by trying to pretend I'm the character, when I'm looking over it's shoulder or at it's butt all the time?
I don't have a problem with all the Zombie games, I have a problem with all the 3rd Person Zombie games.
Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 is fun, because I feel like i'm there, killing the shit.
Those other games, not so much. Dead Island's problem was that zombies just spawned back up after you killed them and left the area. I'm on a fucking island, if I kill a zombie, it should stay fucking dead. But whatever, I guess I'm stupid for expecting some realism in my zombie shooters.
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If the creative minds behind The Walking Dead want to do something unique and interesting they should shoot live action episodes where the cast meets up the cast of some of the better recent zombie shooter games. The players from Left for Dead II could blend in with The Walking Dead cast quite nicely, IMHO.
First there was the article about some website's poorly-written preview of the "Steampunk Action-Adventure game Dishonored", and now there's this. All that's left is for Ubisoft to announce "Tim Burton Presents: Dexter vs The Joker", and Hot Topic will be forced to start stocking a video game section.
Let's face it - that comic/TV Show can be done this way rather easily. To be honest, it's almost too easy to make a FPS out of it for it to be interesting in any way. Let's face it - taking the plot and turning it into a FPS is about the laziest way possible to do something.
Killing zombies by throwing records at them, having to get past the zombies by pretending to be a zombie, no weapons. Excellent movie.
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Well it's a good thing zombies weren't completely played out 5 years ago, otherwise this would just seem pathetic.
I dunno about video games, but there's already two board games. The first one, based on the comic, is actually pretty good. The second one, based on the show, sucks. Big surprise, eh?
Based on that precedent, I'll probably skip the video game based on the show, and wait for the small indie game based on the comic. :)
Another Zombie FPS? Whyyyy.
Just grab Lonesurvivor and try a new take on surviving a zombie apocalypse.
Was part of the recent HumbleBundle and is well worth a play. Now, I just have a niggling problem to deal with involving what looks like an oversized velociraptor..
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With her samurai sword and all. But she's not yet appeared in the TV version (realise she is in season 3), which is ace but pretty plodding in the zombie-killing stakes compered to the comics. Many other good stories from the comics could be good: playing the cannibals for one (perhaps better not try and eat Dale 'tho)
Read the first issues of the comic - kudos to the creator for trying, but it wasn't very good.
Watched the first episode of the TV series, which was just utter shit. An inherent problem with zombie-based plots, is that no-one in them is allowed to have ever seen a zombie film, read a zombie comic, played House of the Dead etc. So they act stupid, which gets them killed, and if you're acting stupider than a zombie, that's pretty damn stupid. The hero finds a perfect location - a police station with its own generator, hot water supply, a supply of guns and ammo, and the closest thing to an actual fortress that you'll find in a modern city. Eminently defensible. So he leaves after taking a shower. And wanders among the zombies wearing a short-sleeved shirt. At which point, I lost all interest in the doings of anybody so retarded. He might as well have doused himself in steak sauce, shoved a sprig of parsley up his arse and laid down next to a sign reading Welcome To The All-You-Can-Eat Fuckwit Buffet.
Although you'd think zombies would be the perfect enemies for a video game, (no remorse about killing something already dead), few have been any good. Dead Rising could have been excellent, were it not for the fact that weapons broke so easily. Have you ever tried to break a crowbar? Dead Island was just appalling, and Left for Dead is ok, if you have a group of decent players, as the bots are not overly bright. It also feels a little odd - computer-controlled NPCs vs computer-controlled zombies - kinda feels like you could leave the machine on, not pick up a controller, and the game would play away quite happily without you. Not exactly the sense of total immersion I want in a game.
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I don't see why we need anything better the www.urbandead.com - a free to play browser based game where all the zombies and survivors are players. Admittedly, the graphics aren't great.
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Yeah, because Activision seems to be doing so well with Diablo 3.
...that's gonna be the first family action drama role playing first person shooter ("FADRPF") ever!!1!
I'm _SO_ excited!!!
Zombie shooting, that has been done to the death!
"Walking Dead. Blah, blah, blah... Activision, ugh... FPS... Blah, blah... Wait. Did that say I get to be DARYL??!?"
Please oh please don't let them put some kind of horrid DRM that I'll have to boycott on this game, I want it already!
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So they are creating L4D 3?
Remember all those poorly rated Blair Witch games they had to do just after Nocturne?
On the other hand, this is their first FPS since 1996's Hellbender.
Now let's move on to the Hurt Locker FPS already. Zombie crap is hurtling towards Macarena status at this point. If I do say, Sir... that's quite enough.
I just want there to be a multiplayer mode where you can play as a zombie! First thing I'm gonna do is bite that bitch Laurie, she's always whining and causing drama. And then Carl because it's a safe bet he ain't in the house.
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Another game from Activision adapted from TV or a movie. These games have been sucking horribly for 20 years now. Activision must not spend any money on development for these games, so it's a profit whenever they make one of these stinkers. Distribution agreements and relationships between vendors will ensure a base number of games will be sold so it's not wholly unreasonable they might do this.