Activision's The Walking Dead FPS - First Footage Unveiled

DSOGaming writes: "As you may already know, Activision is preparing an FPS title, based on the ‘The Walking Dead’ franchise. While the big publisher has not revealed anything – officially – as of yet, Guru3D’s member ‘Stone Gargoyle’ has shared a video from what looks like a prototype version of that FPS game."

[Walker]

Looks lame :| !

[d0nni3]

i hate to say it but i have to agree most of that footage looks terrible, the way it seems to handle and the look of the game just seem amaturish!

Hopefully this is either fake or an extremely early build!

[ABizzel1]

Mixed feelings.

Ya, More Walking Dead, and this time you get to be a true zombie slayer.

However,

1. it's Call of Duty meets the Walking Dead
2. Graphics are good and bad at the same time. Hair looks like plastic (0:42).
3. TONS of screen tearing
4. Seems like a corridor game, running from alley to alley.

I need to see more, but for now I'm not impressed.

[NukaCola]

Agree. This looks like dookie butter all around. The animations are horrid, the game looks outdated and boring. This is like a poor counter stike map done ages ago but never finished. Kill it with fire...and someone please stop Activision from trying to ruin everything.

[nveenio]

This looks awful. It's GOTTA BE a joke. Unless this is for touch devices, of course...

[Rumor]

Can't even put hands in the ladder animations? Jeez.

Well, it is a prototype so I guess I shouldn't be so critical

[badz149]

this is a joke, right? for a next year game, on consoles nonetheless...that is one terrible looking game! doesn't look fun at all!

[Dee_91]

looks like an arcade game.
Is it ?
Cant be worth $60 looking like that

[Jockamo]

looks like a half life 2 mod

[EddieNX]

Oh for the love of God.... Is that the *^&(ing CoD Engine ? *sigh*

Judging by this video , Are they doing a dreamcast version ?

[Irishguy95]

You mean like Left 4 dead? That's what this game looks like except the gameplay is worse

[Rivitur]

No HL2 mods look better than this. (runs off to play No More Room In Hell)

[shutUpAndTakeMyMoney]

Same company that produces cod so don't expect much. Bad hit detection on zombie shooting.

Some of the assets in the game look good like so I am guessing is a tiny environment game.

They will spend more money than the current walking dead game and not even get nominated for goty next year. watch..

Craptivition.

But will the zombie cod fans buy we will see..

Yes I have -20% faith in them to make a awsome game. Might as well just make it for kinect and let it die a cheaply made death.

[Jason143]

Looks like fiddlers green pc game http://pcmedia.gamespy.com/...
Yeah when I saw this live on ign I was like oh my looks so bad. Glad it wasnt just me bing picky

[rezzah]

I rather watch the show or read the comics over this crap.

The gameplay isn't good, and the feel of an apocalyptic world filled with zombies doesn't present itself very well in that video.

Kind of makes me think of COD, the gameplay. Who is the developer?

[Old McGroin]

How in the name of God does that gameplay remind you of Call Of Duty?!

As far as I know Activision are developing it so there is a COD link but to me it looks nothing at all like Call Of Duty.

[Thatguy-310]

Seriously a lot of people just find any little thing to hate on activision. How on earth does this remind you of COD? no way was the character just running and gunning zombies with ak-47's and grenades was he?

[mushroomwig]

'prototype version of that FPS game.'

Calm down, of course it's going to look bad in it's current condition.

[Grap]

it does looks lame. and kind flat. the zombie animation just terrible

[PhantomT1412]

I don't know, I really liked the Ghostbusters game this developer (Terminal Reality) did, it was really fun while staying true to the franchise so maybe they can pull out the same magic for TWD. We must be fair, this is cleary a leaked video with no presentation effort whatsoever, maybe the intersting parts and key-selling points of the game were not shown here...

[cyguration]

...that's a good thing.

PR videos only show you the "special" parts to get you to buy the game.

Would you buy the game seeing only a video of ACTUAL gameplay not the special gameplay?

This here is the majority of what the game will consist of: corridor shooting and COD style gameplay.

PR videos butter everything up to sell you on an idea, not the actual product.

[Klopek]

Congratulations on being one of the only people to actually acknowledge Terminal Reality as the developer rather than blindly spewing hate for the publisher. After their success with Ghostbusters, I too have high hopes that they can make something worth playing.

[Der_Kommandant]

Looks activision

[omi25p]

I must have seen a different video to you.

Its clearly an early build, but what is shown looks interesting.

He uses bottles to distract the zombies, You cant stand and fight because 1 bite = game over.

Melee weapons and stealth are a key aspect to the game.

The environmental graphics look ok. Merl looks exactly like Merl (although low detail and texture)

The zombies are clearly unfinished and still being worked on.

If this is a very very early build it could have potential.

[avengers1978]

Looks very dated, like it's an early PS3, or 360 game... I hope the final product is a lot better than what we see here.

[That-Guy]

That's an insult to early PS3 and 360 games.

[IAMERROR]

wow! The budget must be low... very low.

[finbars75]

Looks as bad as the downloadable episodes.It will win GOTY only because its the walking dead.The episodes where just plain garbage.It only won because the show is a hit.The fact that it won and it barely sold on consoles blows me away.Must of been all the hardcore fanboys of the show who voted and never even played the game.The walking dead is overated anyways.

[Liquid_Ocelot]

So you think that all the 'hardcore fanboys of the show' bought, played and voted for the game.. -_- probably half of those hardcore fanboys as you say don't even care about the game as much as they care for the comic.

This game looks horrendous yes, but TellTale did a wonderful game. Don't hate on them.

[EnderSavedMe]

This game looks absolutely nothing life the episodic games. Either you have never played any of them, or you just don't know a quality breakout game from every other generic, far too repetitive IP out there.

Consoles or not, TellTale's game sold phenomenally well for what it is via all it's available platforms. I didn't expect it to win GOTY but i'm glad it did.

[meetajhu]

Too many Zombie games and movies keeps getting me worried that the governments are trying to say "BE PREPARED"

[DOMination-]

Yay more zombies

[ninjahunter]

Yea, kinda does, but i remember a certain cartoonish, point and click adventure that people thought the same about.

[Rivitur]

Sam and Max? or Jurassic Park? hehehe

[Sarcasm]

Man that looks so generic... Way to go Activision...

Oh well we have TellTale's Seasons 2 to look forward to.

[darkziosj]

this look like zombiu

[AzaziL]

Never had my hopes up, it's Activision, they probably just modded the IW engine and CoD's zombie mode and slapped the walking dead license on it.

[Ashunderfire86]

You play as the two racist rednecks, and the graphics and gameplay look bad. Not missing much folks. I rather play Left 4 Dead, The Last of Us, and the other Walking Dead game that got game of the year at the VGAs.

[M_Prime]

i can't be the only person thinking, why not simply play DEAD ISLAND if this is what the final product will be

[KidBroSweets2]

@M_Prime

Because that game is awful too

[tee_bag242]

I highly doubt it's anywhere close to finished.
It likely to be a pre-alpha build, considering this is the first we have seen or heard about it.

[KidBroSweets2]

If they could just take the time and do this game right, it would easily get game of the year. I'm actually saddened by this video.

[J86blum]

Yeah, it actually looks bad. Shadows wheres the shadows, wheres the detail in ...everything, this must be beta....please.

[hennessey86]

Everyone will be hating it on here, I'll give it a chance because I love the walking dead.

[Sp1d3ynut]

Wrong. Being an Activision game, people will be skeptical and critical of this game, and have every right to be. I love TWD as much as anyone, but that doesn't keep me from being smart. Activision is the king of killing franchises...wouldn't be surprised to see them mess this up out of the gate. Besides, it's the end of a very long generation, and some stellar games have come out recently, and more are coming out next year. Devs should have the current hardware on lock by now, so there's no excuse for shoddy graphics, gameplay mechanics, etc.

[dubt72]

The king of killing franchises? Capcom begs to differ.

[Braid]

People will NOT be hating on quality content. The publisher has nothing to do with poeple's reaction, except some obvious trolling comments, and ignoring them has to be the first thing you should have learned when you stepped into the world of internet.

That being said, I have to agree on people who's saying that the game does not look very promising. It's almost as if they said "Hey let's take Dead Island and slap the Walking Dead label on it and make it an official WD product, as gamers love both Dead Island and the TV show." As long as the quality is there I wouldn't mind, but we can not know if it'll just copy and paste the already established zombie formula or bring something new to table.

[EddieNX]

I gave 007 legends a chance , Because I love 007!!!!!

You get the point..... Activision is the walking dead. They're publishing themselves...

[Neckbear]

Wow, the animations look almost as shitty as Skyrim's.

[noxeven]

i smell fail sadly

[BanBrother]

Agreed. It is saddening, as I love The Walking Dead.
I would have preferred EA to get it than Activision.

Even though I think EA is worse than Activision as a whole, at least they make good games (albeit, with day 1 dlc and online passes).

This looks worse than an old Source engine game. While graphics is not everything, if you make a game in this day and it looks like an early gen game, you can tell it is a cheap cash-in.

TWD fans deserve better. But, as long as Bobby gets his cheque right??

[josephayal]

Looks Like L4D

[TheGamerDood]

also War Z.

[Klopek]

and <any zombie game>.

[TenSteps]

Dead game walking

[redDevil87]

I agree, it looks terrible.

Chicken.

[inf3cted1]

Being Walking Dead a very popular show I guess theyve realized its worth making this game to profit more.

[modesign]

scrambled porn looks better than this

[THC CELL]

What the hell was that, god Activision u.really no how to fk stuff up

[CaptainFaisal]

I dont know why but i was really looking forward to this! but come on! this looks like kane and lynch but fps and with a bit worse graphics! If only EA made this game! i know you guys hate EA but imagine a walking dead game on frostbite 2 engine? the awesome graphics, realistic killing, destructive enviorment, and make it open world! we can find people make a group and explore the huge open world! where you can drive veachles to go from place to place ! and secure outposts or building! or even attack other civiliations towns and choose to blow it up or sabotage it or maybe even conquer it! And best of all make it FPS,
Agree if you like my idea ! thanks ! want more ideas or info? i have alot more! PM me :P

[1nsomniac]

It looks to me like this is obviously either a mod for another game like HL2 as said above or its alpha stage footage. Its clearly not going to be released in this state tho, i think a few of you are a little over eager...

[YourGreatUncle]

Graphically I think it looks fine. The animations, overall movement, and Merles character model look so unnatural and just bad.

[IIC0mPLeXII]

Ok so now we can add to the list of FPS game next year that are going to bomb.

Overstrike or Fuse what ever the fuck its called now.
Dirty Bomb
Walking Dead Survival Modern Warfare

[Nes_Daze]

Thing is, it's hard to make a zombie FPS game that is realistic in the sense of what the Walking Dead comic/show is about. You won't see any running and gunning, obviously, and this has to be an early build.

[yesmynameissumo]

Am I too late to comment on how an unfinished product looks unfinished?!

[JasonKCK]

lol

[Griffin4871]

Making everything an FPS doesn't solve the typical problem of lack of innovation.

[marioPSUC]

I hope that that is Alpha footage cause that looks really unfinished and unpolished.

[BanBrother]

Lol @ the people saying "don't judge it, it is an early build".

Sadly, early builds that look like a PS2 game don't magically turn into a PS3 game by the end of the dev cycle.

F*** Activision, I knew they would screw it up.

[Kamikaze135]

It looks really bad and I'm disappointed being a huge Walking Dead fan. The graphics look very glossy, lighting sucks, and the combat looks too boring. I hope they refine this game to make it look/play better, but I sort of doubt it.

[AtomicGerbil]

Looks cheap. I was genuinely curious when I read the title, despite who is publishing it. But now I have zero interest.

It's nearly 2013, ladder climbing animation should be compulsory, especially considering there was very little else going on.

[Angerfist]

This is fake, looks just like a Mod. and i dont want another FPS.

[dazzrazz]

Maybe your idiot face should do some Google time before making false statements.

Anyway game looks like shit thankfully State of Decay looks a lot better for less money

[vallencer]

Maybe your idiot face should do some google time to because i just did and guess what the only article for actual "gameplay" that came up was this one. So this is more than likely fake, a mod, or early early footage because lets face it it looks like garbage.

[CaptainYesterday]

It's not fake watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[FragMnTagM]

The game sounds interesting from the way it was explained in the link you posted, but they still have a crap ton of work to do on it.

If they are making it first person it needs a lot more animation added in for one. I hate it when FPS developers leave out body animations. The character is more believable and the immersion is much higher.

Mirror's Edge and Halo both have good body animations, and it sells the FPS viewpoint really well.

The inventory system sounded pretty nice. You share the resources as a group from the survivors you pick up. The survivors that are picked up can each be sent out on their own missions and you can choose what they take with them. If and when they complete their mission, the items they scavenged becomes part of the group. This sounds interesting.

If they can polish the hell out of what was shown, it has a chance be a sleeper hit.

[JamieLeeC93]

Looks awful.

[LOL_WUT]

Can't Activision work on something other than a FPS? With that said I this looks like garbage.

[FoxHound_]

If you want a true Walking Dead game go play Telltale's Walking Dead. If you're waiting for a true apocalypse game wait for The Last Of Us.

[cyguration]

Don't you mean DayZ?

Last of Us isn't open world.

[FoxHound_]

I should've been more specific. With Telltale's Walking Dead you get an amazing story that makes Walking Dead fans like myself proud. But, the game isn't really gameplay driven. With The Last Of Us, we can expect an amazing gameplay and a good story. From what I've seen in the footage above,this game doesn't have either. So, if you're looking for a great Walking Dead game with an amazing story go get Telltale's version. If you want a more gameplay driven zombie apocalypse game, wait for The Last Of Us. But DayZ is also great.

[AngelicIceDiamond]

For some reason I had a little feeling in the back of my head that this game wasn't gonna look all that great but wow it looks way worse than I imagined. But Please let this be a early build, My eyes are bleeding.

[claud3]

it looks really awful and not worth any play time

[NovusTerminus]

It should not have been an FPS... And this is why.

It looks kind of "floaty" uses the old 1990's ladder climbing animation. The whole game just looks dated, Textures are alright, but the animation and gameplay just looks kinda... Eh.

I'll pass, I so wish it was a TPS instead of an FPS.

[2pacalypsenow]

Another Left 4 dead and COD zombies? pass

[Kran]

Of course it looks bad. It's Activision. They take every franchise and ruin it.

It's what they did with Call of Duty. Family Guy. James Bond. Spiderman. Some would say Spyro, purely because they put him in a game for no reason. I don't even recall Spyro having a major role in the sequel. They simply used Spyro to get to the fans.

They even tanked the Battleship game. BATTLESHIPS!

BTW no matter how much you want to hope the game will be good, don't count on Deadpool. Sure, Highmoon are good with their transformers (bar dark of the moon) but they're just being told what to do from Activision, and it's clear Activision don't know how to make a true GOTY anymore. They've gotten cocky over the last 5 years.

[kupomogli]

Hopefully this is an early build, because the graphics look like a first gen PS360 game.

I know it's Youtube and framerate is locked at 30fps there, but I thought I saw a one noticeable framerate drop and some screen tearing.

[TronEOL]

The game honestly doesn't look too bad. Like, it doesn't look good or anything in it's current state, but I've always wanted a FPS Zombie survival game where the zombies weren't all roided out and relying on quick, jerky reactions to make things scary.

I had far more tense moments in games like The Walking Dead (Telltale), RDR Undead Nightmare or Resident Evil 2 than say Resident Evil 4-6, Left 4 Dead (I love this game though, tons of fun), Dead Space (purely relying on cheap scares by setting an eerie atmosphere).

[violents]

Seriously this game clip looks awful. Very generic looking. With the critical acclaim that the series game got how can they not try to make a big AAA blockbuster game out of this. I cant believe they are going to call this walking dead after the series game got GOTY. This looks like typical activision garbage(this is big right now, lets throw together some crap game and throw a big name on it to squeeze a few more bucks out of it)

[Triggytrolls]

haha.

[jakmckratos]

I'm so glad they decided to make more games on the Gamecube!

[MasterCornholio]

I doubt it will be as good as tell tales game.

[Allsystemgamer]

This. Looks. Boring. I love me some zombies but it all looks so lackluster. The graphics, animation, everything. The kills aren't even satisfying for the FEW ou SHOULD be getting. It's not a zombie kill fest so every kill u are forced into should be satisfying

[Ultra Gamer]

Oh this is being made by Craptivision. No wonder it looks lame..

[Miacosa]

Not sure where this is in development but it seems okay for a $9.99 download game.

[Bryan574]

And the award for the most generic looking FPS with the COD engine is.....

[whoyouwit04]

unlike every other so called gamer on n4g I am going to wait for a build closer to the final build before I judge it. the article says it is a prototype and that it probably want play or look any thing like this in the final build, I swear I don't get gamers as of late it seems they are more bitchy then supportive. like I said there is nothing wrong with being A critic that's your job as a consumer, But how can you sit there and bitch about a game and give them no tips as to what you would like to see done to improve it. all I have been reading is this game looks like shit, a fake counter strike mod, this is from the people of call of duty so what do you expect, dream cast graphics, etc etc etc all complaints and no support. you know what I think the game could deviantly use some improvements, but instead of bitching about it I'm about to email the developers as soon as I can to let them no what I think they can do to improve this game.

[CaptainYesterday]

I'm interested in this game from what I've heard I'm not going to judge it from what little I've seen so I'll wait to see more gameplay before I decide if I should get it or not.

[bigbearsack]

This has FLOP written all over it.

[cyclindk]

Linearity... with little shooting and at best probably an abysmal stealth system for slinking past walkers unseen...

The dev guy on IGN interview was so full of it, but he STILL couldn't make the game sound interesting.

Hope I'm wrong, for the fans' sake.

[Kaslonian420]

It's a pre-developed build guys. No wonder why it doesn't looked polished yet. EVERY game in pre-develoment phase goes through this. You may play the games but do the industry a favor and do some research before posting idiotic comments. Activision is a great choice of developer, World at War had great gore. xD

[americanGTA]

this looks a ps2 game

[Deku-Johnny]

This footage actually makes me glad it's not coming to Wii U.

[Drainage]

you guys should just be glad its a zombie suvival game. Seems you guys hate them or some shit. hating on zombiu & walking dead. I understand the warZ hate but god damn. Its an early build , and I rather not wait4 years to play it like Killzone2 just as long as they fix the screen tearing.

[hano]

It looks good if it has the right mix of survival - horror action mix.

If it is another action oriented fest it will just be another fps with zombies. But looking at the footage, it looks like this will be more survival based rather than a murder fist, which is good in my book.

[ratcop22]

Guys, this is not the game. It is a mod of Dead Island. This video was made by a troll who wanted to piss off people on the Day of the Innocents

[Th3 Chr0nic]

Oh look they made a mod for COD

[Tales RPG addict]

Activision making a FPS game based off of the Walking dead. Great, Sigh.

Are you fucking kidding me, Activision I never bought one of your Call of Duty Games for a fucking reason. The first 3-4 games are good, then it starts going downhill. The same shit happened to TONY HAWK. GOD will the game industry stop the fucking regurgitating of FPS, I enjoy that genre but GOD does it annoy me when that has been the biggest focus.

Then people here who are FPS addicts bitch about JRPG's they need to STFU, COD has ruined the FPS genre in a number of ways,and in turn hurt other companies that are sending out great games that aren't FPS. A majority of the American general public is nothing more than FUCKING MORONS. Brainless morons. OH here's another COD presented at E3.

Fuck this game i'll get a new title have you people heard of "THE LAST OF US".

[Raoh]

sigh... I love TWD, about to read the comic series for a fourth time. Might re-read "Y The Last Man" right after.

But this looks like trash.

[Tales RPG addict]

"The Last of US" looks a million times more realistic than this game, Killzone 2 & 3, Uncharted 2, Uncharted 3, Crysis 1-3, and more.

[Tales RPG addict]

All right you win, I'll wait and see but this still doesn't convince me enough.

[bozebo]

Activison... nobody cares.

[MuhammadJA]

It could end up great seeing it's only a prototype. I may get it if they released a PC version.

[Chrono]

This is a disgrace to the franchise.

[InTheLab]

Truthfully, I thought it would be all gunz a blazin being another COD shooter like Bond and ...well....CoD. I'm glad to see they at least understand the premise of TWD.

I also like throwing things as a distraction.

Anyway, because it's Activision, I'm sure they'll screw it up.

[fresh2death93]

Doesn't look that bad , they just showed the slow parts.

[EnderSavedMe]

I'm pretty sure if this was legit Activision would have had their logo at the beginning of the video. Not to mention the complete lack of actual sounds from the game.

[DareDareCaro]

No more milk in the cow. You are hurting it.

[The_Con-Sept]

I am going to be the first person to boo this shit off stage at e3 man. The walking dead that currently exists is beast man. Activision are just trying to squeeze in a quick dollar man. It's going to suck. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO1!!1!!!

[isyourhouseonfire]

Activision tends to be successful in all of its endeavors, so as skeptical as I am I think this will be another hit from them.

[Richdad]

since this is a graphics display, I would say the game has good looking model, enironment and atmosphere.
FOllowing things seems to be disappointing:
1. Textures are outdated, most objects, wall, zombies etc. look like platic which no material identity. Seems everything is made out of same stuff.
2. Shaders are dated, everything seems to be very unappealing the color grade, tone is not good and everything looks unnatural IMO.
3. Torch light and lightning are unappealing, this game would be technical gem if it was released in 2005-06 but now it lacks with the competition.

[rbluetank]

Terminal Reality’s must be running over budget/out of time. this game should not have been shown in this condition.. i do not think this game will get much better then this. why would they show a game that looks this bad before releasing in 2013? i will not buy this game. i had my hope up for this game.

[Zha1tan]

This cannot be real life.....how is this a AAA title by a big publisher? do they have no shame these days?

[acemonkey]

the dilog sucks lol..i know it didnt play but....i saw this on IGN mornings or whatever the show is called... the zombies "walkers" look like u can lose them very easy...since u can run down a alleyway and they dont chase you....so far this is gonna be a rent lol or pass

[brave27heart]

Dear God you people are thick. Early. Build. We're talking Alpha stage. Thats bare bones, no shine, basic textures, no particle effects, no lighting and no anti aliasing. Hence the flat look, screen tearing and PS2 looking graphics.

I love slagging off cod as much as the next person but you guys will look for any excuse to pick this game apart just because its Activision. Plus theres the really valid point that graphics dont mean a damn, its all about gameplay. If this game looks like a PS1 game but has amazing gameplay, Im in.

[InTheZoneAC]

this game doesn't even have a release date. It's probably at least a year away, so with that in mind I don't expect the sound, animations, or gameplay to be perfect or anywhere near it.

[zrsh]

This game looks AMAZING!... Oh wait....

[T2X]

It doesn't look that good or bad in my opinion. Hopefully they'll brush it up a bit before release, otherwise I see a game that will be panned by critics and players alike. Especially when they take a subject or show that is so loved by so many people and they hack it. I hope they get it right as I myself am a big fan.

[FITgamer]

If Activision thinks they can slap the TWD title on a game and it will sell no matter how shitty it is they are in for hurtin'. I would never buy that POS, i really hope this video isn't legit. Go ahead and make another shitty COD game , but don't disrespect TWD.

[KontryBoy706]

UGGG... LY

[OneAboveAll]

A lot of people bashing something that is clearly early test footage should hold off.

It can't be any worse than Dead Island. That game was a disappointing bug ridden mess.

[TemplarDante]

What garbage! Typical Activision cash in.

[isyourhouseonfire]

Looks awesome... And since we only have a cartoon labeled 'The walking dead' videogame for right now, getting a true video game sounds great.