Any idea what’s next for The Walking Dead? Game adaptation! The newest rendition of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead just saw a burst of new media and popularity today, almost all of it featuring bloodthirsty, necrotic corpses. But don’t worry, that doesn’t mean we put an end to your favorite zombie apocalypse TV show, so continue to watch The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 10: 18 Miles Out online as soon as it airs on February 26, 2012. Mark your calendars ladies and gentlemen, but for now, let’s have a sneak peek of what this new ruckus is all about.
In case you haven’t noticed, The Walking Dead is one big heck of a package. Before, it was just some sort of 2D, dark, gory, monochrome comic book series, the zombie-themed property had the eye of executives at AMC who has felt that the shambling corpses would make an excellent contrast to Jon Hamm. Introducing a video game inspired by the television series.
As per usual, you can find the full lineup in the gallery below, but I want to draw special attention to the second screenshot (which can also be seen in relatively tiny form at top-right). Wanna know why? Because the more I look at that image, the more I'm impressed by how well Telltale's artists were able to stylize the world's aesthetics, while still making it easily recognizable as a descendant of the comic's Tony Moore/Charlie Adlard artwork.
Of course, there's also a part of me that remembers Telltale's disappointing Jurassic Park videogame. Honestly I enjoyed that title, but to do so I had to consider it a "vaguely interactive long-form cutscene" instead of an actual game. I have no idea what Telltale plans to do with The Walking Dead, gameplay-wise, but if it has any hope of avoiding a critical savaging, the firm is going to have to drastically depart from its efforts on Jurassic Park.
Which, now that I mention it, serves as a nice segue into the other piece of Walking Dead media to emerge this morning: The first episode of "Playing Dead," a Telltale-produced web series that takes viewers behind the scenes of the game's development. Presumably this is an effort to offer as transparent a development cycle as fans could possibly hope for, and that's admirable.
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