The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series Video Game Series

The developers also prepared a special episode, titled The Walking Dead: 400 Days. It presented the fate of five new characters, providing a bridge between the first and second parts of the game. The series also lived to see a shorter, three-episode side season - The Walking Dead: Michonne . The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Games Mini-Series, depicting the fate of one of the favorite heroines of the TV universe - the black-skinned Michonne, wielding a samurai sword.

The series The Walking Dead is set in a world overrun by zombies, known from Robert Kirkman's comic books and the TV series based on them; in the course of the game we meet a number of characters known from the comic book original. The titular living dead (also known as "walkers") are created by a mysterious infection, and while at first it seems that being bitten by a zombie is the only way to spread the epidemic, it soon turns out that everyone is at risk - because everyone will become a dead person, regardless of the cause of death. Unlike other universes that take into account the existence of the living dead, in The Walking Dead they are the only supernatural element in the world presented. The plot revolves around the consequences of the appearance of zombies - primarily the breakdown of an orderly and predictable social organization. Consequently, the main threat to the survivors is not bloodthirsty monsters, but other people, fighting in every way for survival and increasingly difficult to obtain resources.

The gameplay consists mainly of exploring locations, holding conversations, collecting items and solving puzzles. However, unlike most adventure games, Telltale Games studio's series pays little attention to puzzles. Instead, its most important element is interacting with other characters and making choices. A hallmark of the series (and later also a hallmark of the studio) is forcing the player to make very difficult moral decisions, determining the survival of certain NPCs and the further development of the plot. An additional complication is the fact that the time to make a choice is limited: if we don't manage to decide on any of the options, our character will not take any action (e.g. keep quiet during a conversation), which often leads to an unfavorable turn of events. What's more, unlike most morality systems present mainly in RPGs, the decisions we make can rarely be clearly described as "good" or "bad." Every choice we make has consequences, and their tragedy often lies in the fact that we must choose between evil and evil. As a result, in some countries the game is used in ethics classes. The series also contains action elements realized in the form of quick time events.

Games in the series The Walking Dead have appeared on most modern platforms - individual episodes are released on both personal computers and seventh (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) and eighth (Xbox One, PlayStation 4) generation consoles, as well as on mobile devices and handheld consoles. The series uses cel-shading technology and slightly simplified and exaggerated character models, making it resemble the comic book original by Robert Kirkman. The whole thing is shown from a third-person perspective, with variable, heavily static camera placement.

Games The Walking Dead are designed exclusively for the single player. The absence of multiplayer mode is compensated for by the statistics presented at the end of each episode. We can learn from them what percentage of people who completed a given episode made the same decisions as we did.