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Genre(s) | |
Developer(s) | Telltale Games Skybound Games[a] |
Publisher(s) | Telltale Games Skybound Games |
Composer(s) | Jared Emerson-Johnson |
Platform(s) | |
First release | Season 1 – "A New Day" April 24, 2012 |
Latest release | The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series September 10, 2019 |
Parent series | Comic book |
Spin-offs | Michonne |
The Walking Dead is an episodic graphic adventure game series developed and published by Telltale Games and Skybound Games, based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. First released in April 2012, the series currently spans four main five-episode seasons, an additional episode as downloadable content, and a mini three-episode season, with the fourth and final season being released in 2018 and ended in 2019. The games have been released to personal computers, game consoles, and mobile devices and have had both digital and physical releases.
The series, like the comic, starts with a pandemic that turns the dead into zombie-like "walkers" that decimates civilization, and takes place along the United States eastern seaboard. The series focuses on the character of Clementine, a young girl that is cared for by Lee Everett during the first season, and subsequently travels both by herself and with other groups in later seasons after Lee sacrifices himself for her. During the second season, she becomes the adoptive caretaker of AJ, an infant left parentless. When Clementine later joins with a survival group called the New Frontier in the third season, they strip AJ from her, and Clementine works with another survivor, Javier Garcia, to rescue both their families from the New Frontier. During the final season, some years later, Clementine and AJ join other teenagers holding out at their boarding school to protect it from bandits and walkers. Some of the characters from the comic series, such as Shawn Greene, Glenn Rhee, Hershel Greene, Michonne, Siddiq and Paul "Jesus" Monroe, have appeared during the video game series.
The games in The Walking Dead series eschew typical puzzles and exploration found in most adventure games and instead offer a stronger narrative and interaction with other characters. The game mixes such scenes with more action-oriented ones based on quick time events to elicit excitement during the games. Telltale introduced the feature of having numerous determinants that could result from the player's choices, such as which of two characters to save during an attack, that influenced the story in later episodes and seasons, and the company has used this aspect of player choice in its subsequent adventure games.
While the series was primarily developed and published by Telltale Games under license from Skybound, the studio effectively shuttered in late 2018 in the midst of the fourth main series, The Final Season. Robert Kirkman, creator of The Walking Dead and of Skybound, felt it was necessary to finish off Clementine's story, and hired some of the Telltale staff to finish off the series. Skybound also took over publishing duties for the other games in the series.
The series has been praised for its strong narratives and impact of player choices. The first season was particularly noted as having been considered as revitalizing the waning adventure game genre, which had been languishing since around 2000.[1]
Concept
The Walking Dead series is based on the comic series of the same name. The game's events run concurrently to the comic, starting at the onset of a zombie apocalypse, where dead humans have become undead "walkers" that feed on the living which quickly overwhelmed most of the population. As established in the comic and show, this is a result of a virus that all living humans possess that takes over the brain of the body once the person dies, and the only way to stop this is to destroy the brain.
The game series initially starts in Georgia, with the whole of the first season and the events of 400 Days content taking place within the state. The second series follows the protagonists as they move north along the United States' eastern seaboard, believing there to be a human encampment in the north as well as the colder temperatures slowing the walkers' speed.
Gameplay
The Walking Dead games follow the same point-and-click adventure game approach that other Telltale Games episodic series have followed. Within an episode, the player controls a protagonist as the story progresses through several scenes. Within a scene, the player can move the character to explore the area, examine items, and initiate conversation trees with non-player characters; in these dialogs, the player has the option of selecting a number of options to reply to characters, including the option to stay silent. Other scenes are based on cinematic elements using quick time events in which the player must hit a controller button or a keyboard command as indicated on screen to react to an event. Failure to do so in time can lead to the character's death or other undesirable ending, and the game will restart just prior to these scenes.
All choices made by the player in The Walking Dead are tracked by the game, and certain choices ("determinants") will influence later scenes across the episodes and the series to date, when the player continues from the same saved game state. For example, in the first episode of the first season, the player has an option to save one of two non-player characters from a walker attack; the other character is killed, while the surviving character will uniquely impact other aspects of the story. Other times, selection of certain dialog options will influence the attitude of a non-player character towards the protagonist, and can manifest in later scenes as providing additional options for the player to select from. Telltale Games tracks these decisions, including five main choices made during the course of each episode, allowing players to compare their choices to others.
Games
Year | Title | Platform(s) | Developer(s) |
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2012 | The Walking Dead: Season One | Android, iOS, macOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, Xbox One | Telltale Games |
2013 | The Walking Dead: Season Two | ||
2016 | The Walking Dead: Michonne | Android, iOS, macOS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, Xbox One | |
2016 | The Walking Dead: A New Frontier | Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows, Xbox One | |
2018 | The Walking Dead: The Final Season | Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows, Xbox One | Telltale Games (episodes 1–2)
Skybound Games (episodes 3–4) |
2019 | The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series | PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows, Xbox One | Skybound Games |
Series overview
Season | Episodes | Originally released | ||
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First released | Last released | |||
1 | 6 | April 24, 2012 | July 2, 2013 | |
2 | 5 | December 17, 2013 | August 26, 2014 | |
Michonne | 3 | February 23, 2016 | April 26, 2016 | |
3 | 5 | December 20, 2016 | May 30, 2017 | |
4 | 4 | August 14, 2018 | March 26, 2019 |
Season 1 (2012)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |||||||
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Main series | ||||||||||||
1 | 1 | "A New Day" | Sean Vanaman Jake Rodkin | Sean Vanaman[2] | April 24, 2012 | |||||||
2 | 2 | "Starved for Help" | Dennis Lenart | Mark Darin[3] Story by: Chuck Jordan | June 27, 2012 | |||||||
3 | 3 | "Long Road Ahead" | Eric Parsons | Sean Vanaman[4] Story by: Sean Vanaman Jake Rodkin Harrison G. Pink | August 28, 2012 | |||||||
4 | 4 | "Around Every Corner" | Nick Herman | Gary Whitta[5] | October 9, 2012 | |||||||
5 | 5 | "No Time Left" | Sean Vanaman Jake Rodkin Sean Ainsworth | Sean Vanaman[6] | November 20, 2012 | |||||||
Downloadable content | ||||||||||||
6 | 6 | "400 Days" | Sean Ainsworth | Sean Ainsworth Nick Breckon Mark Darin Sean Vanaman Gary Whitta | July 2, 2013 |
At the onset of the zombie apocalypse, Lee Everett rescues young Clementine whose parents had traveled to Savannah prior to the apocalypse. They join with other survivors in Macon, Georgia to protect themselves from the undead, taking shelter in a defensible motel. When their position is overrun by both walkers and scavengers, the group flees and heads towards Savannah hoping to find boats to flee the mainland. Lee promises to reunite Clementine with her parents while teaching her rules of survival in this new world. In Savannah, they find no boats, and a strange man communicating to Clementine via walkie-talkie. When Clementine goes missing, Lee in his panic searching is accidentally bitten by a walker. With his time short, Lee assures the safety of the remaining survivors and goes to rescue Clementine, held by a man who has blamed Lee directly for the death of his family. Lee and Clementine overwhelm the man, and as they escape, they witness Clementine's parents, who have already become walkers. Clementine drags a weakening Lee to a safe location, and Lee, in his final moments of rationality, directs her to find the other survivors, before telling her to kill him or leave him before he fully becomes a walker.
400 Days (2013)
400 Days is a downloadable special episode. It focuses on five different protagonists and it serves as a bridge between Season 1 and Season 2. In the final scene, the survivors of each story are offered to be taken into a safe camp.
Digital pinball adaptation
A 3-D virtual pinball adaptation of the first season, developed jointly by Telltale Games and Zen Studios, was released on August 27, 2014, as downloadable content for most of Zen Studios' family of pinball games and also as a standalone paid mobile app.[7][8]
Season 2 (2013–14)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
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7 | 1 | "All That Remains" | Dennis Lenart | Nick Breckon Andrew Grant | December 17, 2013[9] |
8 | 2 | "A House Divided" | Eric Parsons | Nick Breckon | March 4, 2014[10] |
9 | 3 | "In Harm's Way" | Graham Ross | Pierre Shorette | May 13, 2014[11] |
10 | 4 | "Amid the Ruins" | Jason Latino | J. T. Petty Eric Stirpe | July 22, 2014[12] |
11 | 5 | "No Going Back" | Sean Ainsworth Dennis Lenart | Nick Breckon Pierre Shorette | August 26, 2014[13] |
More than a year after the first game, Clementine is separated from the other survivors and forced to fend on her own. She meets up with another group that are attempting to flee a man named Carver, who runs the human survivor camp at a strip mall, as alluded to in 400 Days. Clementine learns Carver seeks to capture Rebecca believing her to be carrying his child while she insists it is her husband Alvin's. They come into another group, discovering that Kenny, one of the survivors that Clementine traveled with from the first season and who had lost his wife and son to walkers, has managed to survive. In the midst of a walker attack, they are captured by Carver. Learning that a massive walker horde is approaching the strip mall and will readily overrun it, the group manages to escape with other prisoners, killing Carver in the process after he kills Alvin. During their escape, a woman that Kenny had taken a romantic interest in is bitten by a walker, forcing Clementine to intercede to kill her before she can turn, angering Kenny. As they regroup, Clementine becomes close to Jane, a loner that was part of the prisoners at Carver's camp and who teaches Clementine survival skills. Later, Rebecca dies after giving birth to a child, which they name Alvin Jr. (AJ) As winter sets in, Jane and Kenny become hostile towards each other, and Kenny's distrust of the group leads to a fraction of them fleeing from Kenny, Jane, Clementine, and Alvin Jr.. Jane forces Clementine to see what Kenny has become from witnessing the deaths of his loved ones by faking the death of Alvin Jr., and Clementine is forced to intercede, killing one of them and opting to continue with the other while overseeing to Alvin Jr. herself.
Michonne (2016)
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
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1 | "In Too Deep" | Kent Mudle | Meghan Thornton Nicole Martinez | February 23, 2016[14] |
2 | "Give No Shelter" | Sean Manning | Zack Keller Andrew Hanson | March 29, 2016[15] |
3 | "What We Deserve" | Jason Latino | Nicole Martinez Erica Harrell Desirée Proctor Joshua Rubin | April 26, 2016[16] |
In June 2014, Telltale announced a three-episode series The Walking Dead: Michonne. The mini-series released on February 23, 2015 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One; February 25, 2015 for iOS and Android; and March 1, 2015 for PC, and serves as a tie-in between the first two The Walking Dead seasons developed by Telltale. The series mostly focuses on Michonne's untold story on what took Michonne away from Rick, Ezekiel, and the rest of Rick Grimes' trusted group and what brought her back.[17] Samira Wiley voiced Michonne in the game. The mini-series was originally scheduled to be released as downloadable content for Season 2.[18] However, in December 2014, Telltale announced that the game would be released as a standalone title that would not require any previous game in the series to play[19]
Season 3: A New Frontier (2016–17)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
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12 | 1 | "Ties That Bind - Part One" | Jason Latino | Brad Kane Nick Breckon Adam Esquenazi Douglas Laura Jacqmin Dan Martin Desiree Proctor Pierre Shorette Michael Choung | December 20, 2016[20] |
13 | 2 | "Ties That Bind - Part Two" | Rebekah Gamin Arcovitch | Brad Kane Nick Breckon Michael Choung Adam Esquenazi Douglas Laura Jacqmin Dan Martin Evan Skolnick Timothy Williams | December 20, 2016[20] |
14 | 3 | "Above the Law" | Chris Rebbert | James Windeler Patrick Kevin Day Adam Esquenazi Douglas Laura Jacqmin Adam Miller Evan Skolnick | March 28, 2017[21] |
15 | 4 | "Thicker Than Water" | Chris Rieser | Luke McMullen Theresa Cooley Patrick Kevin Day Laura Jacqmin Adam Miller Evan M. Skolnick | April 25, 2017[22] |
16 | 5 | "From the Gallows" | Jason Pyke | Adam Esquenazi Douglas | May 30, 2017[23] |
The third season of The Walking Dead launched with two episodes on December 20, 2016.[24] The season plans to tie in all the possible endings from previous seasons without compromising the story to avoid pushing away new players to the series. In an interview with IGN, Kirkman stated that the third season would bring the video game closer to the comic book's time frame. It takes place a few years after the second season, and includes a somewhat older Clementine along with AJ, the infant she rescues at the end of Season 2 who is now a toddler.[25][26][27] Clementine is a playable character along with a new character, Javier.[28] A New Frontier uses the updated Telltale Tool, the same game engine Telltale used for Batman: The Telltale Series.
During the 2016 PAX Expo, Telltale revealed the third season was to be released in November 2016, with the subtitle "A New Frontier".[29] Telltale later had to delay the first episode's release until December 20, 2016.[30] Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment published retail versions of Season 3 as part of a deal with Telltale for Batman that was released in August 2016.[31] The physical edition was released on February 7, 2017, featuring the first episode on disc and download codes to obtain all future episodes of the series.
The Walking Dead Collection (2017)
Announced in November 2017, The Walking Dead Collection includes all episodes from the first three seasons, as well as "400 Days" and The Walking Dead: Michonne. The collection was released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on December 5, 2017.[32] The content of the first two seasons and "400 Days" has been visually improved, reflecting on improvements Telltale has made in their engine since these seasons were first released, including high-definition texture mapping for all survivor characters, improved dynamic lighting, and upgrading the game's graphics to use DirectX 11 over DirectX 9. The older games also use the user interface elements developed for the third season as to provide a consistent interface to the players.[33]
The Walking Dead Collection was nominated for the Tappan Zee Bridge Award for Best Remake at the New York Game Awards 2018.[34]
Season 4: The Final Season (2018–19)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Release date [35] |
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17 | 1 | "Done Running" | Chris Rebbert, Vahram Antonian | Jessica Krause Adam Esquenazi Douglas Mary Kenney Lauren Mee | August 14, 2018 |
18 | 2 | "Suffer the Children" | Chris Rieser | Mary Kenney Adam Esquenazi Douglas Douglas Lieblich | September 25, 2018 |
19 | 3 | "Broken Toys" | Ryan D. Chan, Chris Rieser | Lauren Mee Adam Esquenazi Douglas Mary Kenney | January 15, 2019[36] |
20 | 4 | "Take Us Back" | Chris Rebbert | Adam Esquenazi Douglas James Windeler Chris Rebbert Mary Kenney Lauren Mee | March 26, 2019[37] |
Announced during the July 2017 San Diego Comic Con, The Walking Dead: The Final Season, launched as four-episode series on August 14, 2018 for Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, with a Nintendo Switch version to launch later that year.[38] Episodes are expected to launch roughly each month through December 2018.[39] Clementine will return as the lead character, voiced by Hutchinson, as Telltale found that fans of the series were not pleased with how little interactivity there was with Clementine in A New Frontier. Telltale wanted to have the final season call back to what fans had praised about the first season, and knew they needed to make Clementine the focus. With this direction, Telltale decided to make this the final season for The Walking Dead series so that they can create a satisfactory conclusion to Clementine's story arc.[40] For this purpose, Telltale brought back Gary Whitta, the writer for the first season and "400 Days" content, to help close out Clementine's story.[41][40]
The story follows from A New Frontier with Clementine having rescued AJ from the McCarroll Ranch, with an ellipsis a few years ahead, where AJ is now a young boy. With diminishing resources amid the apocalypse, Clementine and AJ find the importance of staying with communities of vital importance, meeting other characters who have little memory of the time before the downfall of society. Clementine starts to teach AJ the essentials of survival as Lee had taught her. Telltale had initially considered writing a version of Clementine that had become more jaded, but found this was far too different from the established version of the character, and reworked her to be more sympathetic.[40][42][43]
The final season used the updated version of the Telltale Tool first introduced in Batman: The Telltale Series, along with improvements in the visual style to approach the style used in The Walking Dead comic.[40] Some scenes will feature "unscripted" zombies who may attack Clementine if the player is not careful, creating new freeform combat sequences, while other parts of the game will continue to use quick-time events as from previous games.[42]
Despite the title The Final Season, Telltale did not rule out future The Walking Dead games; Creative Director Kent Mudle said that The Final Season title represented the end of Clementine's journey from Telltale's view, but could revisit the franchise through other characters.[44]
However, due to the sudden near-closure of Telltale Games on September 21, 2018, only two of the four episodes were released and production on the latter two were cancelled, effectively leaving the season half-finished. Skybound Entertainment later stepped in to develop the rest of the season, re-hiring some ex-Telltale staff in the process, as Kirkman had felt it necessary to properly complete Clementine's story. Skybound has also acquired the publishing rights to all previous Telltale The Walking Dead games.
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series (2019)
Skybound published The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series that includes all episodes from all four seasons, as well as 400 Days and The Walking Dead: Michonne, for release on Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on September 10, 2019.[45] Each of the previous episodes in the series was remastered to use the new rendering system that was introduced in The Final Season, and adds over ten hours of developers and voice actor commentary. Additional improvements have been made in character models movement and lip syncing.[46][47]
Additional releases
In addition to the Definitive Series edition, Skybound has also published all four seasons (including the 400 Days content) for the Nintendo Switch by January 21, 2020, and republished all four seasons, 400 Days and Michonne on personal computer digital storefronts in January 2020, after they had been pulled from sale from Telltale Games' closure.[48]
Main cast and characters
Character | Season One (2012) |
Season Two (2013/14) |
A New Frontier (2016/17) |
The Final Season (2018/19) |
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Clementine | Melissa Hutchison | |||
Lee Everett | Dave Fennoy | Dave Fennoy | ||
Kenny | Gavin Hammon | |||
Omid | Owen Thomas | |||
Christa | Mara Junot | |||
Lilly | Nicki Rapp | Appears (determinant) | Nicki Rapp | |
Katjaa | Cissy Jones | Appears | ||
Kenny "Duck" Jr | Max Kaufman | Appears | ||
Ben Paul | Trevor Hoffman | Appears | ||
Larry | Terry McGovern | |||
Carley | Nicole Vigil | |||
Doug | Sam Joan | |||
Glenn Rhee | Nick Herman | |||
Mark | Mark Middleton | |||
Chuck | Roger L. Jackson | |||
Molly | Erin Yvette | |||
Alvin "AJ" Jr. | Appears | Unknown actor | Tayla Parx | |
Jane | Christine Lakin | |||
William Carver | Michael Madsen | Appears | ||
Luke | Scott Porter | |||
Nick | Brian Bremer | |||
Pete | Brian Sommer | |||
Carlos | Kid Beyond | |||
Sarah | Louisa MacKintosh | |||
Alvin | Dorian Lockett | |||
Rebecca | Shay Moore | |||
Bonnie | Erin Yvette | |||
Sarita | Julia Farmer | |||
Mike | Dan White | |||
Arvo | Michael Ark | |||
Javier "Javi" Garcia | Jeff Schine | |||
Kate Garcia | Shelley Shenoy | |||
David Garcia | Alex Hernandez | |||
Gabriel Garcia | Raymond Ochoa | |||
Mariana Garcia | Vale de la Maza Brenda Lorena Garcia |
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Tripp | Troy Hall | |||
Eleanor | Kelley Crowder | |||
Conrad | William Christopher Stephens | |||
Francine | Valerie Arem | |||
Paul "Jesus" Monroe | Brandon Keener | |||
Max/Rufus | Sean Lynch | |||
Badger | Jon Curry | |||
Lonnie | Charles Halford | |||
Ava | Ally Johnson | |||
Joan | Jayne Taini | |||
Clinton Barnes | Andrew Heyl | |||
Paul Lingard | Yuri Lowenthal | |||
Abel | Alex Fernandez | |||
Marlon | Ray Chase | |||
Brody | Hedy Burress | |||
Louis | Sterling Sulieman | |||
Tennessee | Zaire Hampton | |||
Violet | Gideon Adlon | |||
Mitch | Robbie Daymond | |||
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