“What if?” is all the time an enchanting query. It lets us discover our imaginations in eventualities we’ll by no means really see play out. Now although, you may see them play out in The Walking Dead universe and it’s arguably the most intriguing thing to occur to the franchise in years.
GameMill Leisure and AMC simply introduced a brand new recreation known as The Strolling Lifeless: Destinies. It covers the tales of seasons 1-4 of the present (You already know, when it was good) and lets the participant make decisions that change the course of the story from what you noticed on TV (and within the comics) years in the past. Need an instance? Right here’s the announcement trailer with a giant one, courtesy of IGN.
There you go. What if Shane killed Rick and never vice versa? Issues certainly would have been very, very totally different. And, apparently, the sport will allow you to alter the course of the lives of not simply Rick and Shane however Michonne, Carol, and Daryl too, amongst others. How precisely that works, whether or not you may hold save factors to return to and discover totally different storylines, has not but been introduced, however hopefully, you may leap round and never have to begin at the start every time. Particularly because it’s your complete level of the sport.
Very similar to the present, you’ll begin as Rick, waking up in an Atlanta hospital. Acquainted early-season areas just like the farm, the jail, and Woodbury are all in there. Past that, we nonetheless don’t know, however it will be cool if there have been new locations too. Who’s to say Shane’s group follows Rick’s path, proper?
To us, that’s essentially the most fascinating factor about this recreation. Simply how deep can it go? Simply how badly are you able to mess issues up? Do sure modifications make issues higher for the group than they ended up on the present? All of for this reason, greater than a Daryl Dixon or Rick and Michonne present, Destinies looks like top-of-the-line additions to the Strolling Lifeless franchise but. (Even when these graphics appear to be they got here from a PlayStation 2 however hopefully they get higher.)
The third-person, action-based story recreation doesn’t but have a launch date however it’s in growth for PC by way of Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Swap.
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