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The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season

The living will have to survive amongst the dead in this game based on The Walking Dead, the widely acclaimed comic book series and television series. Across five dark and emotional episodes of gameplay, every…

11 December 2012

The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season is an adventure developed by Telltale Games, released 11 December 2012 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One.

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What The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season is

The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season is an adventure game developed by Telltale Games and released in 2012. It was published by Skybound Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Android, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Telltale Tool.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Walking Dead is a five-part game series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series. Play as Lee Everett, a convicted criminal, who has been given a second chance at life in a world devastated by the undead. With corpses returning to life and survivors stopping at nothing to maintain their own safety, protecting an orphaned girl named Clementine may offer him redemption in a world gone to hell.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 48 achievements to unlock.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent, 3 GB RAM and ATI or nVidia card with 512 MB RAM (not supported on Intel integrated graphics). At 3GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season launched on 11 December 2012, within three weeks of Far Cry 3, Game Dev Tycoon, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn and PlanetSide 2. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Far Cry 3, Game Dev Tycoon, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn, PlanetSide 2.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Screenshots

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Quick answers

The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season — frequently asked questions

When did The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season come out?
The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season was released on 11 December 2012 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Android, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season?
At minimum, The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season needs 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent, 3 GB RAM, ATI or nVidia card with 512 MB RAM (not supported on Intel integrated graphics) graphics, 2 GB of storage.
How many GB is The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season?
The PC version needs about 2 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("2 GB"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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