The first episode in Telltale’s game based on The Walking Dead comics has sold more than one million copies across all platforms. Good news, since I really liked it!
BlueMaxima is a pretty prolific guy — he’s written a fair few Reader Reviews, and I’ve enjoyed all of them. Today he’s looking at The Walking Dead, the game you totally can’t play on console, but can on Steam for some reason!
When casting about for media to compare gaming to, most minds land on film. Action movies and action games still draw inspiration from each other, and when game budgets and incomes draw comparisons, it’s always to Hollywood.
Australians woke up to the news that The Walking Dead, the video games adaption of the show based on the comic, was not made available in Australia or New Zealand. Many assumed it may be something to do with classification, and that assumption seems to be correct.
Telltale explores the dark recesses of an already dark universe next month, when the first of five weekly instalments of The Walking Dead hit PC, Mac, Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation 3.
Don’t expect to see Deputy Rick Grimes make an appearance in the first episode of Telltale’s comic-based The Walking Dead video game series. The hero of the series will be sleeping away the first instalment in a coma while creators explorer what supporting cast members were getting up to at the time.
When you’re constantly on the room from hordes of flesh-hungry zombies and the desperate remnants of humanity you don’t have time to lug around an entire game console just to recreate the experience. That’s the only way I can make sense of “Deluxe Plug It In & Play TV Games” based on AMC’s The Walking Dead.