GameInformer- The Walking Dead started out as a black-and-white comic book that narrowly avoided early cancellation. Since then the property has grown into a transmedia behemoth. The Walking Dead trades consistently land in the top 10 sales charts. The AMC television show based on the property is basic cable’s highest-rated series, with last season’s finale drawing 9 million viewers.
Telltale’s The Walking Dead adventure games became the developer’s fastest-selling series. Creator Robert Kirkman has shepherded The Walking Dead through its many incarnations, so we talked with him about the property’s gaming future, what makes zombies so popular, and why we’ll never see a Mega Man/Walking Dead crossover.
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The upcoming Walking Dead game in development from the studio behind Payday: The Heist will include cooperative online gameplay and be "Payday-esque," said The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman at a SXSW panel today.
Not really?
Even if it's bad it's got a good license, if anything the license really mediates a lot of the potential risk. Even bad, licensed games sell moderately well, that's why they continually exist.
Plus, Overkill are a talented studio and I'm confident they can shape this into an enjoyable licensed game, and that's a lot better than we get most of the time!
The elipsis you mean?
Would have landed better if it were an obviously risk free game to make... you could really argue both ways with a strong case, so does sarcasm really make sense here? Probably not.
Before the announcement that a heavily narrative focussed Walking Dead video game was announced in 2012, Telltale games was a development studio that not particularly well known. Despite putting out other similar properties with Back to the Future: The Game and Jurassic Park: The Game, the products were largely met with a very mixed and ultimately tepid response from the public. The rampant acclaim and runaway success reached with The Walking Dead launched the developer into one of the most anticipated and favourable studios out there with one revolutionary product.
I think the walking dead story telling is amazing. I really love the games and think that they bring the respect of gaming story telling up in the world of entertainment in general :)
