Terminal Reality is the latest company to take advantage of the franchise opportunities in The Walking Dead, hired by Activision to create a first-person-shooter for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC due out next year. Rather than drawing from the source material of Robert Kirkman’s graphic novels, Activision wants Terminal Reality to create a game from the AMC television series based on the comic, separating it from Telltale Games’ episodic, action point-and-click installment of The Walking Dead.
The Walking Dead FPS will focus on the zombies as “walkers,” as they’re called in the show, and will require players to be specifically aware of the sounds they produce, whether when firing weapons or traveling through an area.
“In the game, you’ll need to carefully sneak into and out of some dangerous situations and you may meet a few Walkers along the way,” Gonzalez says. “If you show up with guns blazing, you’ll quickly find yourself dealing with a much larger crowd and you could easily become overwhelmed.”
Walkers will also track humans by their scent. The longer a player stands still, the larger his scent radius becomes, eventually traveling outside of buildings and down streets to lure in masses of the undead. Just like McDonald’s does.
