Here's the first in-game picture of The Walking Dead!
And what can I say, besides the fact that it looks great!
This is in-game graphics? Boy, am I sure my computer won't be able to run that! XD
If Back to the Future was Telltale graphics at their cartooniest/stylized and the upcoming Jurassic Park is their take on a realistic direction...well Walking Dead looks like a pretty good compromised to look realistic and containt cartoony aspects.
I guess I see why they went this way, despite the color, it looks pretty close to the comic book series, specially with these light cell shading effects (see the darker parts on the guy's clothes, they way it appears like inked shadows).
Very nice! Also this is probably the best background I saw in a Telltale game!
The only awkward part that might or might not ruin it will be the animations, which has always been their weakest aspect. I mean, some people criticize Back to the Future graphics or direction... I liked it, reminded me of the old BTTF cartoon in a way. And it looked nice to be honest, those haters are just Gears of War-fanboys who want all video games to look the same (boring) way!
No, Telltale's main problem, besides easy puzzles/too accessible adventure games for the mainstream audience, has always been in the awkward animations which ruined a bit of BTTF's great character design. And might ruin the above look of Walking Dead...
I hope they really work hard on that.. (zombies won't be that hard to move around, so they can concentrate on the human survivors...right?...)
Also, they confirmed they would work on importing data from one episode to another, something that had lots of problems in BTTF:
"Characters that die in one game in Episode 1 will stay dead, or if the player keeps them alive, they'll reappear in later episodes." - Jake "Rodford" RodkinGood to hear!
In BTTF you were supposed to chose Marty McFly's alias during the prohibition era, which should have carried over the other episodes...but it didn't work that well so everyone ended being called Michael Corleone over the other episodes. (though I heard some were able to have some "Harry Callahan" slips into one or two dialogues...Telltale usual bugs and glitches..)
More pictures, concept art and more, below!~
