Ambitious interactive experience The Walking Dead: Last Mile will begin on July 11.
The Walking Dead: Last Mile is a near-unique new storytelling experiment, in which the people and events of an Alaskan community in the Walking Dead universe will be broadcast 24/7 in a series of livestreams. It will air exclusively (and for free) on Facebook Gaming and Facebook Watch, and viewers will get to become decision makers along the way.
In a new trailer during IGN Expo, we saw a situation in which a scavenger dispatches a frozen walker, then gets ambushed by another human. In the ensuing fight, the ambusher is shot, but the scavenger opts to take them back to their community for treatment. It's a taste of the kinds of moral dilemmas Last Mile seemingly hopes to offer.
Viewers of Last Mile will become players through a couple of means. During the live event, mini-games will be available, and succcess in those games earns viewers Influence Points. Those points can then be spent on decisions that can affect the coiurse of the narrative, both small and large.
We're not sure on exactly how long the event will last, but it's looking to be a fascinating new type of game storytelling. This was just one of dozens of announcements and trailers revealed during IGN Expo 2022 - make sure to check them all out.
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