Activision Reveals Walking Dead First-Person Shooter

IGN writes, "Activision has announced a new game based on The Walking Dead. Not to be confused with Telltale’s episodic The Walking Dead adventure game, Activision’s version is a first-person action game based on AMC’s The Walking Dead TV show."

[Blastoise]

Could be good... don't know if I like the fact you play as Daryl though. I'd rather just be some new guy set in the "the walking dead" world

[buddymagoo]

I just hope they don't speed up the zombies because that is not what the Walking Dead zombies are like in the comics or tv show.

[Soldierone]

They already talked about going rambo....Which would NEVER be an option in the TWD world....

Honestly this game will most likely just rehash the COD engine just like almost every other shooter Activision makes. The best you are going to get is Singularity like gameplay, which is a bunch of cool perks that are never exploited and at the end of the day its COD with a new story and perks.

I hope I'm wrong, but if you honestly think Activision isn't just simply cashing in here, then you will be disappointed. They got the FPS crowd interested, and they got TWD crowd interested, its easy money.

[gaffyh]

The past games the developers have made suggests that this game will probably not be that good, but I'll keep my hopes up.

[Solid_Malone]

i expect this game to be rushed :/, rather than worked on properly

[geth1gh]

Why oh why do people still get their hopes up for games like these?

I mean when is the last time a no name game developer (activison is the publisher NOT developer) made a game based on a movie or show that wasn't just awful??

I mean to be honest I can't even think of a legitimate studio that has produced a game based on a movie or show that was barley more than okay at best.

I just don't understand given the track record why gamers still get pumped for stuff like this.

[xAlmostPro]

NO!!!

What the hell, telltales adaption is perfect! It grips you like the comics and the tv show does.

I just finished episode 2 of the game and was talking to my mate about how i personally think it's the best tv show adaption i've ever played.

It gets your emotions going, you feel guilty, you feel like you NEED to protect Clem(look i even call her by the nickname).

Activision will create nothing but a cash in, look what they do to the bond games.

-_-

[Bob Dole]

Bob Dole's infinite wisdom and knowledge says this game is based on the comic books. TV show has already strayed way off from the story of the comics. This game hasn't (yet).

[LUCKYXS7LEVEN]

*it's the best COMIC adaptation i've ever played*
fixed

[Trenta27]

From the brilliant minds who brought you Bloodryane, Monster Truck Madness, and Blair Witch. Yup. It's going to be good...not.

[OhMyGandhi]

Bloodryane?

[Trunkz]

They know people like the CoD Zombies, so why not take a popular show and make it into an FPS, it's a pretty smart idea on Activisions part regardless if it turns out to be good or bad I think they'll make sales.

[Skizelli]

I just hope it's not Call of Walking Duty.

[SPAM-FRITTER-123]

a 3rd person - open world - RPG.....NOW thats what it should be.

[mafiahajeri]

Daryl is my favorite character would have been to obvious if it was anyone else. Also he uses his gun the most saw he works for a FPS.

[FarCryLover182]

Is it running on the Call of Duty engine like all Acti shooters do? Just curious.

[unknownhero1123]

I'll bet the farm it is

[Cablephish]

The farm in season 2?

That's gone man. Went up in flames.

[TheGOODKyle]

Of course it's a shooter. Nothing else pleases Activision unless it's a generic, shooter cash grab.

[killa91606]

Hey, if it's interesting and attracts gamers to play it, then why not make it?

[MiamiACR21]

Because TheGOODKyle doesn't like it killa91606.

[geth1gh]

Because thats what 80% of games these days do, ATTRACT gamers. That's it.

They all end up being crap games but spend large amounts of money on advertising campaigns and cg trailers that sucker people into buying it.

As long as they have the money they don't care what happens afterwards.

Gaming is heading in a sad direction.

[WeskerChildReborned]

Sound's interesting. A new first person zombie game.

[HammadTheBeast]

Sounds exactly like an FPS "The Last of Us".

Meh. Naughty Dog has the real magic.

[irokster]

DUDE, THOSE ARE NOT ZOMBIES IN "THE LAST OF US." GOD, YOU PEOPLE ARE SO MISINFORMED!

[s45gr32]

Okay good for you but for me ugh another first person zombie game no thanks. Telltale's The Walking Dead game is pretty good and emotional. This is activision and is just going to be the expanded version of the zombie mode from COD

[CaptCalvin]

boy oh boy!

[StanSmith]

Activision please do not screw this up with a half assed glitchy game!

*edit* "Developed by terminal reality" confirmed to be glitchy half assed game!

[SuperBeast811]

they used to be one of my favorite devs with BloodRayne 1 and 2 (i know i'm the only one) but after Ghostbusters and Star Wars Kinect Im not sure about them anymore...

[Soldierone]

No if you say you enjoyed Uwe Bolls Bloodrayne movie, then you'd be the only one lol

[NovusTerminus]

It's always an FPS.

I am not getting it. I am SICK of first person games.

[Tonester925]

Play Max Payne

[Feralkitsune]

Then buy the Walking Dead Tell Tale game it's amazing.

[Lovable]

It's one of the best this year for sure

[s45gr32]

Me too me too

[I HARLEM I]

I think the Walking dead is more about story then shooting.... First person is the wrong way to go in my opinion.....

[mushroomwig]

Exactly, the games currently being made by telltale games have just the right mix of action and story. There really isn't any need for a new Walking Dead game.

An FPS game just doesn't make any sense, TWD isn't that kind of genre.

[CaptCalvin]

You can tell a story fine in first person. Just not sure if Activision put much emphasis on story as opposed to multiplayer.

[Feralkitsune]

Buy the Walking Dead Tell Tale game then dood.

[an0nym0us]

not interested in playing as someone from the show, or playing as a racist redneck or someone associated with said racist redneck...

[Infernostew]

Well, the comic doesn't have that said racist redneck so blame the show runners and tv writers for that. The characters in the comic are also so much better than the ones on the tv show.

@disagrees

Ok. Daryl isn't in the comics yet... But the show has botched pretty much all my favorite characters in the comic. Andrea, Dale, and Carol are/were just awful and they didn't even introduce Tyreese whom is my favorite character in the comic.

[Soldierone]

Ricks developing into the character he is in the comics. Andrea is also developing, slowly and annoying as hell, but developing. They couldn't follow Dales storyline in the comics on TV, there is no way people would allow that to happen.

I agree with Carol though. She is the most pointless character on the show, and needs to go. And Whats up with Carl being a total idiot?

A for Tyreese, they have a budget and have to pay each character. They can't just draw them in and write a story, it costs money on TV. I'm sure more characters will come when more characters die. They can't have 50 people running around.

[Infernostew]

Meh, I'd much rather see The Walking Dead as an RPG similar to Fallout 3. I think a sandbox environment would've been crazy fun to play in for this perticular IP.

[Adexus]

Check out Class3, I think that's going to be in a large open world environment.

[Infernostew]

Thanks dude. I'll look into it.

[Kran]

Wish it wasn't a First Person Shooter.

It would be wayyy more affective if it was a third-person shooter.

I just get the feeling this will just be a cash in.

And yet for some strange reason, i feel that if its a Third Person shooter, it wont be :/ Anyone else feel that way?

[Kran]

Just me.

Typical.

[Tonester925]

I love zombies. I'll play almost any games with them. Blame World at War

[Emilio_Estevez]

Awesome, no offense to the other game, but I just don't like Telltale's games, I can't get into them at all. This could be great!

[JKelloggs]

Could be one interesting game, seeing as I'm a huge Walking Dead fan, I could see huge potential seeing as The Walking Dead is massive at the moment. But one doubt that I have, is Activision, could they pull it off? They've screwed up quite a few potential good games in the past.

But hey, that's my opinion.

[MilkMan]

Great, a game about two racist, bigoted fools.
Sure! Hey, here's an idea. Lets give them a game of their own.

@ss in the making.

[Emilio_Estevez]

Sound like a recipe for success. It's like a bad car wreck or the Kardashians, everyone says they don't wanna look, but they will.

[MilkMan]

Hmmm, so far 10 disagrees.

So there's at least 10 racist bastards, bigoted fools that need a hangin' out there.

Nice to know.

I wonder if they live in the city's or out their in the heartland?

Bet they HATED Obamacare also.

[h311rais3r]

A shooter.....for a series were its not about the zombies......where the zombie encounters are few and far between.....

Sounds like acti is going to screw this one up by adding tons of zombies and ammo in a universe where it wouldnt fit. GJ acti.......

[Unlimax]

Everything Activi$ion touches .. becomes the worst thing in the entire planet !

[topekomsi]

I like tell tales game, and i'm excited to see what these guys can do.

[AngelicIceDiamond]

Perfect, another game series Activision can mess up....

[Yangus]

Awesome!
Zombies,FPS,Activision.....i love this generation!

[Old McGroin]

Meh, where the hell is Left 4 Dead 3?!

[Double_O_Revan]

Maybe when Valve learns to count to 3

[OC_MurphysLaw]

Dead Island showed a FPS Zombie game can have solid potential... and the current Walking Dead game is showing that the game cannon has enough to make it an interesting world / premise. BUT... what makes the Walking Dead TV show and current game so good is the relationships and personalities of the living...not the walking dead. I love the show and game because I care about the people. I fear that premise will be totally lost in an FPS game.

Lets hope they can pull it off...

[VanillaBear]

This is going to be shit...all those peoples who have hope...just don't, come on...it's ACTIVISION.

Should of been given to a respected developer and should of been a third person shooter instead.

[Old McGroin]

Ha! Just read Dlacy13g's well thought out paragraph above you, all full of hope and stuff, and then I read your first line, funny stuff!

[beerkeg]

I don't think VanillaBear ever says anything positive. He's not a 'This glass is half full' kinda guy. He's not even a 'This glass is half empty' kinda guy, he's a 'There is no glass' kinda guy.

[VanillaBear]

In this industry this day and age can you honestly blame me. You might think I'm always negative but the fact is I'm just being realistic

People don't learn from their mistakes, people keep giving developers a chance when they damn well know the outcome and all they are doing is giving the developers a happy sale in the end.

In the end I'm just the one who dosen't get his hopes up and then crushed.

I mean look at this logicaly...the chances of this being good knowing it's Activision.....it's not good.

[Les-Grossman]

The entire game should take place in Nuketown

[D3mons0ul]

TWD is known as one of the deepest zombie apocalypse universes and what Activision is doing is the exact opposite of what makes TWD appealing in the first place.

[InTheLab]

Much like every shooter coming out of Activision, this game will look and play like CoD and most likely look nothing like Walking Dead.

Think about the Bond games and how they're not really Bond games...

[MattyG]

Oh god i can see it now... a CoD zombies+TWD tie in *shudders*

[MasterD919]

I don't have high hopes for this and I'm a bit surprised that TWD is already bursting out these kinds of games.

I'll wait and see but Activision tends to suck out of the fun out of the room. Goldeneye anyone?

[Gamer-Z]

Basically this is BO's zombie mode turned into a full game with "the walking dead" name slapped on it.

[LOOK_AT_THIS_I]

^ this

[Straightupbeastly]

It might sell because people that play cod are practically the walking dead

[shutUpAndTakeMyMoney]

Grab something and make it a shooter.. Console tradition.

[NYC_Gamer]

It would have been better as an rpg

[Brownghost]

reminds me of metro

[BraveToaster]

"Activision"
Nah.

[CanadianTurtle]

I will smack my puppy if they even dare make it on a CoD engine.

I'm kidding, I don't have a puppy.

[Bonerboy]

Could this be the new Resident Evil 1 2 3 or 4 style "remake" I have been waiting for. Perhaps a thinking man's shooter for once? Here's hoping.

[Ace_Pheonix]

I wonder if it will have a human Nazi mini game. Ah, who am I kidding, I don't really care. I like The Walking Dead too much to support whatever horrors Activision does to it.

[nerdkiller]

can anyone tell me anything else they publish besides fps i remember they use to make a guitar game back in the day

[s45gr32]

Guitar Hero the guitar game you were talking about

Tony Hawk Pro skater a once popular skateboarding game drove to the ground.

Vigilante 8 it was a great alternative to twisted metal in the car combat genre. It involves cars blowing up like a schoolbus taking down a bike, a hearse, and eighteen wheeler with rockets, missiles, machine guns, etc. Is better if you play it than me describing it.

Pitfall an action adventure game similar to tomb raider

Those are the games Activision publish before fps upon fps upon fps.

[Prince_Dim-Lu]

Why does it matter what else they published? You're either going to buy the game if you like it or not.

You effing kids and your Activision comments. You don't like, don't buy it. Move on.

So tiring seeing the kids jump on what's hot to hate on. Ya, we get it, a minority of people don't like COD. Boo hoo.. It's getting way more tiring to read... oh no, another COD.. oh no, COD engine.. oh no.. these guys make COD.

Get out of here with that. More people like activision and COD, then people that don't. Deal with it.. don't buy, and move on. These aren't the droids you're looking for.

[s45gr32]

Activision publishing another half ass cashed in first person (wait why in first person view there's too many first person view games already) shooter (really another shooter like we haven't played those oh wait we have for this entire generation of gaming). Telltale a hit and miss game developer actually put the effort and understood what the walking dead comics are all about. I will be honest at first I was a bit put off by its cartoony visuals but once past that lies a true innovative emotional gripping game unlike any other. One of the few games I actually played more than once.

[erivera1994]

are the voice actors going to be the same as the show?

[Ashunderfire86]

Where playing as the two racist from Walking Dead? Why not Rick and Shane? Well No one is going for T-Dog either, because guess what he barely does everything in the show, other then the part where he was called a Nigger from Merle(racist!!!). Who would even name their son T-Dog? No one black in real life would named their son T-Dog lol!!! Rick needs to tell his wife in the show to watch their kid LOL!!! Man what a horrible mother.

[NotSoSilentBob]

So Does anyone else think that this means Zombies are out of Blackopps 2? I could see Activision requireing another game be made to make extra cash.

[Ashunderfire86]

Maybe has Call of Duty graphics nuff said.

[DasTier]

This is retarded, there going to make it into a fast pace FPS, everyone who watches/read the walking dead knows that guns don't work well, I bet it's gun heavy...

[PersonaCat]

WHYYYYYY would ANYONE think this is good news? They are going to destroy the feeling of TWD by making this nothing more than a COD zombie mode. A story about surviving in the apocalypse where everyday is a struggle will turn into who can grab the nearest dual smgs and get the highest killstreak to call down a harrier.

[Zeppelino]

Huu, how do you guys know this is going to turn out being bullshit?? I am not a fan of activison neither the COD franchise, but has anyone read the article?
It clearly says it is going to have stealth to avoid zombies, limited ammo and other stuff that completely avoid the fast paced fps that everyone claim this game will turn out to be.
Plus, we aren't talking about infinity ward or Treyarch, just because is being distributed by Activision doesn't mean it will be a COD clone. Just wait to actually see the gameplay and then do the critic.
Nonetheless, I find amusing that all off you complain about COD, yet, most off you play it.

[Run_bare]

I really have no faith in this game after the debacle of Game of Thrones and others before it. Worse of it that Activision got involved, they are so boring and only make mediocre FPS.

[gazgriff2k12]

the telltale game is amazing im on my third playthough. but i was thinking about a first or third person shooter could work but id rather have an open world rpg with ya choice's and actions are tracked like the telltale game.

update just watched the trailer looks promising why all the hate im excited already

[blackmamba707]

if it's anything close to DayZ then sign me up for this

[Elvis]

Awesome!

[Sucitta]

zombie this, zombie that.. so sick of zombies.