"No, my leather jacket wasn't Photoshopped on, why do you ask?"[/caption]So Activision (you know, the people that publish Call of Duty and ran both the Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero franchises into the ground) is making a game based on AMC's The Walking Dead TV show... and it's a First Person Shooter. Now not only does the idea of a Walking Dead FPS sound terrible and pretty much against everything the show is about, there's already a really great TWD game from Telltale!
Now, I'm not saying a TWD FPS couldn't be good, I mean it's possible, it just would take a lot of work and the intricate mechanics that could only come from really good development team (like for example, Irrational Games, maybe). Unfortunately, Activison has developers Terminal Reality on this, who have games like Def Jam: Rapstar and BloodRayne under their belt... not the kind of stuff that requires the depth and subtlety of The Walking Dead universe. Telltale Games are masters of crafting true-to-the-source style adventure games out of other people's properties, I mean, look at Tales of Monkey Island, Back to the Future, and heck, even though it wasn't completely solid as a game, Jurassic Park: The Game still felt like Jurassic Park. When a perfectly good TWD game exsists already, why farm the franchise out to the people who made Monster Truck Madness?
Basically, I don't have very high hopes for this game (and I love The Walking Dead). The fact that Activision is publishing it and the team behind Kinect Star Wars is making it makes it sound like a pretty obvious cash grab. When you're announcement video (which you can watch here) includes a leather jacket poorly Photoshopped onto the back of Norman Reedus, which then on top of that has crappy angel wings Photoshopped on it (also poorly) and no gameplay footage you're not going to inspire a lot of confidence in anyone.
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