Never mind escaping the joint, Team17 and Skybound Entertainment have just revealed The Walking Dead has infected The Escapists. There’s only one thing for it; take control of Rick Grimes and 8-bit your way to safety.
The start of the new game has us as Rick Grimes in the Harrison Memorial Hospital, and we need to escape! This serves as our tutorial, conveniently, and we’ll need all our cunning to defeat those walkers.
Rifling for odd bits and bobs plays a big role as we’ll be crafting things as we go to navigate levels and to deal with shambling walkers who stalk corridors. A pillowcase and some soap will have to make do as our early arsenal against the undead, but later we can get hold of more iconic weaponry.
Ultimately this game is about survival and we’ll be closing off areas to the walkers to try and fortify ourselves in. We’ll meet other survivors eventually who we can work with to help keep things running as smoothly as possible. It’s about ‘80% The Escapist’ says the team.
It looks like a fine pairing for fans of The Escapists and The walking Dead. More of the game will be shown at Comic-Con 2015 in San Diego running July 9-12.
The Escapists The Walking Dead releases on PC at an undisclosed date.
