Hell, they could even throw a battle royale multiplayer mode in it if that would be a selling point. I’m thinking someone like Ubisoft, who has the open world formula down well these days, Bethesda, whose Fallout series is practically this anyway, or Activision, who lord knows needs some new non-Blizzard, non- Call of Duty lifeblood flowing through its veins as of late. And one good way it could grow is by giving The Walking Dead license to someone who can craft the game I’m talking about above. They’re greenlighting new series, they’re starting to make spin-off movies. I have no idea what the state of The Walking Dead game license is right now, but AMC is clearly looking to dramatically expand The Walking Dead universe. An open world Walking Dead RPG with all of these elements feels like an absolute no-brainer, and yet in the entire nine year lifespan of the show, and many years of comics before that, we have, what? Some bad mobile games, this horrific Overkill game and the pretty decent Telltale series, which is hardly an action title, however.

Choices shape the landscape, can eliminate entire rival factions, start relationships with NPC characters, etc.

A less-garbage version of the Fallout settlement system.

Have a base building system that lets you grow your own community and bring people there to live and help supply you and fight with you.

You can eventually start your own community, and be a good guy Rick Grimes type or grow into a Negan-like dictator or be a total psychopath like the Whisperer’s Alpha. who give you missions, and you can join different factions/turn them against each other. Interact with show characters, Rick, Daryl, Glenn, Carol etc. After that, forget how it impacts canon, who cares.

Set the show in some nebulous time period, perhaps when Rick is running Alexandria for the first few months.

Either new ones created for the game, but also ones pulled from the show/comic, The Saviors, The Wolves, Terminus, The Whisperers, The Commonwealth.

Find loot, supplies and weapons out in the world while fighting walkers and rival gangs.You create your own survivor, specialize in skill trees with Fallout-style stats for guns, melee, survival, etc.Open world, set in the southeast US where the show/comic mostly takes place.

Free the walking dead game online