Kirkman: FPS Walking Dead "Would Be Pointless"

Last week, Activision announced its own take on the zombie-infested world created by Robert Kirkman. The Walking Dead Video Game is a first-person shooter based on the TV show scheduled for a 2013 release. The announcement caught many off guard as Telltale Games just put out the second  of five The Walking Dead: The Game episodes.

However, now the FPS announcement is odd for a different reason. Back in March, Kirkman was interviewed about the Telltale title and asked at the 1:47-mark why the game wasn't a first-person shooter.

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But to do a Walking Dead game that's just that would be pointless.

"You can play Left 4 Dead," Kirkman said. "You can play Dead Rising. You can play Resident Evil -- those are all great games and I do that, and I think other people should do that. But to do a Walking Dead game that's just that would be pointless. I think that you would always be compared to that, and you'd either be better or you'd be worse -- but you'd be the same kind of game, and that's no fun."

Kirkman goes on to say that The Walking Dead isn't about shooting and killing, it's about the interaction between characters and their personal evolutions. "It has heart" and that's something Telltale is able to incorporate in the game.

"Which they wouldn't be able to do if it was just a run-and-gun, like 'I like to cut people up' kind of game, which again are great but that's not what Telltale does," he said. "And that's why they're doing The Walking Dead game."

IGN reached out to Kirkman's publicist for a comment from the author, but an email was not immediately returned. Of course, Kirkman was talking in broad strokes about the first-person shooter genre, so perhaps Activision and developer Terminal Reality came to Kirkman with an idea that broke the "run-and-gun" mold.

We'll find out as we learn more about The Walking Dead Video Game in the coming months.

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