Highlights
- The Walking Dead: Destinies is a surprising announcement for fans, offering a chance to experience the beloved story and infected world in a new game.
- This action-adventure game is based on the first four seasons of the TV series but allows players to make choices that alter the story and outcomes.
- With a focus on story and gameplay decisions, The Walking Dead: Destinies aims to provide diverse story paths and intuitive gameplay like the popular Telltale Games' adaptation.
The Walking Dead: Destinies received its official announcement trailer today. This is the first news of a fresh game based on The Walking Dead.
This announcement comes as a surprise to fans of The Walking Dead. With the trailer released today, fans will once again be able to delve into the franchise's beloved story and infected world.
First shared on YouTube by IGN, The Walking Dead: Destinies is described as an action-adventure game with choice-driven gameplay that can alter the story of The Walking Dead. The game is directly based on the first four seasons of the highly popular television franchise, but the players' choices will produce multiple outcomes that may or may not have been seen in the show. Players can relive some of the most memorable moments of the television series while also being able to alter the timeline of events based on their in-game choices and gameplay decisions. The trailer highlights familiar locations and characters, such as Rick Grimes and Daryl Dixon, and showcases gameplay focused on fighting the zombie hoards or "walkers." While brief, the trailer does give a quick glimpse at one of many potential choice-based moments. The decision-making element was heavily emphasized, with the announcement trailer ending with the tagline "the choice is yours."
With a strong focus on the story told in the drama series, fans may be surprised that they are able to alter the game's events. Some have made comparisons to the Marvel series What If? which also offers viewers an alternate look at multiple storylines within a show. Those who fell in love with the AMC series may finally get to see their favorite characters getting happier endings, though that will depend on their in game choices. The game is being developed by Flux Games alongside publisher GameMill Entertainment, the studio behind games like Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl and G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout.
While unexpected, The Walking Dead: Destinies bodes promising. With that in mind, the choice-based gameplay has already drawn comparisons to Telltale Games, another studio that produced an incredibly popular video game based on the comics from the same franchise. Telltale's The Walking Dead has been praised by many as one of the best zombie games of all time, as well as one of the best choose-your-own-adventure games ever made. If The Walking Dead: Destinies wants to achieve the same level of success as its comic-based predecessor, it will need to make good on its promise of diverse story paths and intuitive gameplay. Choosing to follow the story of the television series rather than the comics has already made The Walking Dead: Destinies distinctive in its own right, though time will tell if that will be enough for it to survive as a beloved game or fall beneath the hoard of competition.
The Walking Dead: Destinies is in development for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
Source: IGN
