You’ll start off the game with Shane and Lori and meet T-Dog and Morgan too. You’ll be able to run missions with your Facebook friends, as well as kill your Facebook friends who aren’t in the game and appear on your screen as Walkers (with the option of posting a kill notice on their wall that may entice them into checking out the game).īut one of the coolest aspects of this social game is the fact that, due to RockYou’s partnership with AMC, they’re actually able to add to the lore of the show. You’ll have to both use noise to distract Walkers and fear loud noises that might rouse them. You’ll have to decide when it’s time to run and hide and when it’s time engage and rage. Over the course of the game, you’ll develop skills like sight, stamina, and fighting. But despite the fact that you’re able to dish out some serious, gory damage to Walkers, The Walking Dead Social game is as much about strategy as it is about decimating zombies. Or play as Shane in the dead-infested high school to see if you can make it out without, you know, having to shoot Otis to survive. But then, as Griffin explained, you might go on a mission with T-Dog to find his missing friend. “A lot of the missions require you to keep everyone well equipped and well supplied, as well as advance the story along” said Jeff Friedlander, Creative Director from RockYou, speaking to the gritty, survivalist environment that the game tries to capture.
We knew that fans would eventually want to play as Michonne and reenact some parts of the show.” There are camp missions that require you to scout and scavange, and then there are the TV missions. All that kind of stuff will happen outside of your character’s narrative. So when something like the camp gets attacked at the quarry, you can play through that. “Game play takes place in the gaps in between the episodes, Griffin continued.