The Walking Dead: Last Mile Reveals Info For Massive Facebook Game
Skybound Entertainment and Genvid Entertainment have revealed more information regarding their new The Walking Dead: Last Mile game, which is due to launch this summer as a Facebook exclusive. This press release revealed the location of the story — a first in The Walking Dead franchise - alongside new character reveals. The announcement also went into detail as to how players will be able to control the narrative in a way that promises to be a unique experience for The Walking Dead franchise.
Skybound and Genvid's new project The Walking Dead: Last Mile, was announced last month and described as a "massively interactive live event" — or "MILE" for short — for the Facebook platform that will be part game, part interactive television show. As The Walking Dead: Last Mile is a live event, it is due to unfold in real-time minute-by-minute, day-by-day, week-by-week as players collectively control and shift the narrative, particularly influencing who lives and dies. This choice could mean that players can potentially save their fan-favorite characters, which is something The Walking Dead writers across the franchise have notoriously been less forgiving with in the past.
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In their latest press release to Screen Rant, Skybound Entertainment and Genvid Entertainment have gone into further detail about how this will work, stating that "unlike other ‘mass online gatherings,’ The Walking Dead: Last Mile truly places all interactive spectators in the same virtual space, creating a new kind of global communal experience that combines the ubiquity of traditional broadcast television with the immersive, interactive engagement of video games" and explained that
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