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1. #WHATS THE NEW WALKING DEAD GAME MOVIE#
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3. #WHATS THE NEW WALKING DEAD GAME TV#

I held high hopes for Overkill’s The Walking Dead. Where this leaves The Walking Dead’s future within video games is anyone’s guess. A sad end to one of gaming’s great innovators. The studio’s flair with storytelling never translated to profitability, and Telltale fell apart in 2018, losing their last investor mid-way through the release of The Walking Dead: The Final Season.

#WHATS THE NEW WALKING DEAD GAME TV#

Then in 2012 there was the beginning of Telltale’s The Walking Dead episodic adventure series, which was notable for telling post-apocalyptic stories that were often better than much of what the TV show had to offer. Zombies were so in vogue during this time that in 2010 Rockstar took it upon themselves to release a stand-alone expansion pack, dropping zombies into that same year’s ultra-acclaimed Red Dead Redemption and calling it Undead Nightmare. Zombies, the iOS version of which I was so hooked on – so absorbed in – I would regularly miss my stop home from work on the bus. A year later, for the Wii (and arguably the best title for said system that wasn’t published by Nintendo) the excellent rail shooter The House Of The Dead: Overkill. The hits came thick and fast there was 2008’s Left 4 Dead. How did Capcom get away with it? They claimed that, unlike the movie, their game wasn’t trying to provide any social commentary, as Romero’s film was doing on the topic of consumerism. Romero’s 1978 film Dawn Of The Dead, a sequel to the aforementioned Night Of… – was dismissed in court, despite the film, and the first Dead Rising, both taking place in a shopping mall. In 2008 a copyright claim made by the MKR Group – who owned the copyright to George A. Developed by Capcom – themselves no stranger to zombies 1996’s Resident Evil is principally responsible for the revival of zombies within popular culture – Dead Rising was a game for people who loved zombies, made by people who adored them.

Two years prior, I’d thrown myself headfirst into a then scarcely known game called Dead Rising. A fan of Black Ops? You’ve got zombies to thank for that franchise’s existence.

#WHATS THE NEW WALKING DEAD GAME SERIES#

During his address at 2015’s DICE event, Treyarch studio head Mark Lamia revealed that the unlockable, started by a “creative restless” team, taught the studio that their IP didn’t need to be constrained by the historical combat scenarios that had defined the series to that date. WAW’s infestation of the undead didn’t just cement zombies within the gaming mainstream, it reinvigorated Activision’s FPS series. The Walking Dead debuted within a Golden Age of zombie-themed gaming, a trend kick started, in part, by the success of 2008’s Call Of Duty: World At War and it’s excellent ‘Zombie Mode’. There’s a scene in it in which a zombie fights a shark, underwater – if you were on the fence about whether to rent.

#WHATS THE NEW WALKING DEAD GAME MOVIE#

1979’s Zombi 2, a film intended to be a sequel of sorts to Romero’s Dawn Of The Dead and released a year prior in Italy as Zombi – is perhaps the greatest movie in the genre I’ve ever seen. Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead series, graduating in due course to the films of Lucio Fulci.

I’d been reading Robert Kirkman’s comic of the same name since its launch issue in 2003, while as a horror movie lifer, I’d grown up in awe of George A. When the series debuted in 2010, I was already struggling to kick a serious habit. READ MORE: ‘It Takes Two’ first impressions: an essential quarantine co-op experience.Seeing The Walking Dead to the finishing line – the main show is due to wrap up in 2022 at the end of an 11th season – feels like something I just need to do. To paraphrase The Godfathers’ Michael Corleone, “just when I think I’m out… their maggoty fingers pull me back in”.

Rarely has episodic TV fluctuated between brilliant and banal so frequently, and there have been times during the show’s run where I’ve walked away with every intention never to return. Truth be told, my relationship with AMC’s long running episodic apocodrama is a complicated, even unhealthy one. There was a moment earlier last week – sat on my sofa, tuning into the recommencement of Season 10 of The Walking Dead – where I remembered, with some embarrassment – just how out of control my obsession with zombies threatened to get for a while.