The Walking Dead thread

mrk · 25 Mar 2012 at 18:07

Surprised there's no thread on this yet!

It's out late April and the season can be pre-ordered for $22.49 from telltale's website right now. The new gameplay trailer looks epic as well and the gore hasn't been toned down either.

Initial trailer:

Extended Gameplay:

I'm going to be pre-ordering tonight, seems you also get auto entered into a draw to have your photo rendered into the game as a character who dies and turns into a zombie in episode 4 as well if you pre-order!

mrk · 25 Mar 2012 at 18:27

I'd have thought the 2nd video would have made that obvious

I have pre-ordered this now, came to £15 for the whole season.

mrk · 25 Mar 2012 at 18:35

That's why I have a wireless Xbox pad!

mrk · 25 Mar 2012 at 18:46

TPS, like Dead Island/Res Evil 4 etc.

mrk · 25 Mar 2012 at 19:07

So the same as most survival horror games then even on the PC

mrk · 26 Mar 2012 at 13:00

Hey I'll Guinea Pig it for you guys then lol.

£15 for the season, nothing lost

mrk · 24 Apr 2012 at 19:03

The whole season was only £15 anyway so not really much to grumble about

mrk · 25 Apr 2012 at 03:17

You can activate via STEAM:

I just got this email

Greetings from Telltale Headquarters!

As you may know, the first episode of The Walking Dead launched today to rave reviews from fans and critics alike. You’re receiving this email because you’re awesome and decided to pre-order the full season directly from our store. Due to some unforeseen technical difficulties on our end, we have run into some issues making the game available directly on our site, and we apologize for the inconvenience. We know you’re super excited about this game and that you’re a loyal Telltale Games fan, and we totally appreciate that. Instead of making you wait any longer for us to clear this issue up, we’d like to provide you with a Steam key so you can download and play the game right now. Don’t worry, though, the official Telltale version will still be made available to you as soon as possible. Until then, please enjoy the game on Steam!

Your Steam key is: xxxxxxxxxxxx

mrk · 25 Apr 2012 at 09:33

I played a bit last night, got into the house actually just before meeting the girl in the tree house. So far the graphics are quite average but cell shaded. The QTE events are more than I was expecting, even mundane things like looking around are presented as QTE events (the first part of the game in the car, for example).

I’ll make final judgement after the first chapter/episode but so far the gore has been quite good and the atmosphere has been interesting too I guess.

Dialogue seems good though.

Initial impression is that I would not have paid full price for this even as a season, the £15 I paid seems ideal.