The history of The Walking Dead video games is all over the place. A really great narrative game (Telltale’s The Walking Dead), a pretty solid VR game (The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners), some bad mobile games, but now? This might be the weirdest project we’ve ever seen from the franchise.
This is The Walking Dead: Destinies, something that may sound like the show’s fourth or fifth TV spin-off, but it’s something else entirely. Like Telltale’s game, it’s about player choice, except this time you are rewriting the canon events of the actual TV show. Yeah, look:
The trailer shows Rick for a while, but eventually, pulls the twist that you can make different decisions to alter the show. For instance, Shane killing Rick instead of it going down the other way around, so then Shane takes on Rick’s role for the rest of the game (which runs through season four of the show, the Governor arc). The voiceover of the trailer is Shane (not actually Jon Bernthal’s voice, sadly) giving one of Rick’s famous speeches from the show, which is a nice touch.
The other changes? They’re not spelled out, but the art for the game implies some potential switches like Merle replacing Daryl as the show’s vest-wearing crossbow wielder (it’s actually pretty funny, Norman Reedus auditioned for Merle, didn’t get it, but they wrote Daryl into the show because they liked him so much). We also have The Governor holding Michonne’s Sword and Michonne with his AR, so not a hundred percent what that switch implies. Carl has a baseball bat? I don’t know, this isn’t the Negan era.
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The problem is…how the game visually looks, which is not good. It’s a smaller studio, GameMill Entertainment, maker of almost exclusively licensed games. Six Nickelodeon games, a Frozen game, a Cobra Kai game and its last foray into zombies was Zombieland: Double Tap – Road Trip. So yeah, we’ll see. Also the game says its “in development” for all current consoles and PC, but no dates are given.
I do think this is a pretty neat idea, I just don’t know how this is going to play in practice, and if it can be good past the novelty of characters switching places or altering canon events. I also cannot for the life of me comprehend how no one has made a sprawling, AAA open world Walking Dead game yet, though perhaps the time for such a thing has come and gone with the peak of the series being 5+ years ago now. Still, curious to see how this turns out.
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