Fight the dead, fear the living. After 11 seasons and more than 170 episodes, The Walking Dead series says goodbye to the television grid in a certain state of wear and tear. Now, where a door closes, a window opens: the extreme survival of the AMC series will be continued through The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Gamethe official role-playing game in which we will be the ones who will make the extreme decisions… Or they will make them despite us.
The project of this traditional role-playing game (in the style of Dungeons & Dragons or Cyberpunk) is in the hands of Free League Y Genuine Entertainment and is licensed by AMC. According to its official website, the game system is a modified version for the Year Zero Engine, which aims to fully immerse us in the franchise. The Walking Dead Universe offering a gaming experience that goes beyond the limits of other survival games.
In any case, The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game You are in good hands: the manual will bear the signature of Nils Hintze (author of other games such as Tales From the Loop and Vaesen, also from Free League) and at Genuine they are very used to working with large licenses such as Alien, Dune, Blade Runner either Batman. They even made a game of Hello Neighbor.
The availability of the role-playing game The Walking Dead Universe is the big question. We know that from spring 2023 A Kickstarter campaign will start, with which we will have a more or less defined date by then, as well as different bonuses for objectives and new details, including the possibility of it being translated. Furthermore, one of the most interesting aspects is that the grand plan is that is played live.
The nightmare of The Walking Dead wants to continue with live games
One of the most interesting aspects of this initiative is that to support it, AMC Networks itself will produce together with Free League and Genuine Entertainment. a limited series of live gaming sessions. Being, for all intents and purposes, something much more interesting to watch than broadcast episodes.
Now, what will add exceptional value to these games is that they will be based on original events taken from the writers’ room of the television series itself. the walking dead. Intermingling the fate of new characters with events and situations seen on the small screen and in which we anticipate that we will see at least one familiar face. or two.
For years, one of the most interesting aspects of the walking dead it is how its protagonists have been exposed to extreme situations of life or death in which untimely decisions have always played more against them than in their favor. Always sowing the same doubt among the spectators: what would you have done in his place?
What’s more, the Telltale Video Game series was able to mitigate that question, but despite its stupendous level of narrative, the options were always limited.
The new role-playing game, however, proposes that we fully immerse ourselves in that apocalypse of zombies and survivors willing to do anything and take a direct part in the events. Although if we are one of those who prefer to see how others go from regular to below, through the series of live games that final boost will be given to one of the most representative series of an entire decade.
In any case, The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game It is a superb way to leave the door open to the universe of the series without the danger of zombies escaping.