With
Telltale's The Walking Dead having wrapped up earlier this year, Skybound Entertainment has turned its attention to
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, a new virtual reality title set in the post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested universe created by Robert Kirkman. Skydance Interactive, a division of Skydance Media, unleashed today the first official trailer for the upcoming game, showcasing the gruesome adventure players will embark on as they journey through the New Orleans wasteland.
The trailer doesn't actually show any gameplay, but sets the gruesome tone for what players can expect. Like the graphic novel series and the shows,
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners doesn't hold back on the brutal nature of this universe where humans are just as much a threat as the zombies themselves.
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners will have some elements of Telltale's series, namely, the freedom of choice. Players will have to make "gut-wrenching choices" and the overcome the "constant threats of violence, disease, and famine." Choices will range in how you approach combat to how you interact with fellow survivors. Skydance teases:
"In The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, freedom of choice and visceral combat offer players a new way to live survival horror in a deep-rooted VR gaming experience. Scale buildings to ambush enemies from above, hold down a walker’s head to rip a knife out of its skull or attack from a distance with throwing weapons, bows and long-range firearms. Players can choose from an arsenal of weapons or craft their own to fit their play style and survive their way. Physics-based combat makes every swing of an axe or jab of a knife resonate with impact.
Choices in The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners will affect not just how the combat plays out but the fate of the city and its other survivors. New Orleans is at war and the living are not just fending off the dead, but each other as well. Will players risk life and limb to protect those in need or eliminate anyone who stands in their way? Will they join one of the warring factions, or play them against each other for personal gain?"
Check out the trailer for
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners below.
New Orleans is at war. The living are not just fighting the dead, but also inflicting pain and brutality upon each other. As bodies pile up between warring factions, whispers spread of a long-lost mystery in the city that could turn the tide of the war. Will you try to court favor with the factions, or play them against each other for personal gain? Can you unravel the mystery that is behind it all? The fate of the city and its survivors rests in your hands.
Saints & Sinners is a game unlike any other in The Walking Dead universe. Every challenge you face and decision you make is driven by YOU. Fight the undead, scavenge through the flooded ruins of New Orleans, and face gut-wrenching choices for you and the other survivors. Live The Walking Dead's dark drama in your own skin.
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners arrives on VR on January 23, 2020.