Overkill's The Walking Dead.
Overkill's The Walking Dead.
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Overkill’s The Walking Dead hands-on — Exciting trailer, weak demo

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Overkill’s The Walking Dead is a major new console and PC game coming from Starbreeze, Skybound Entertainment, and 505 Games. The game has a brutal and riveting trailer that debuted last week. But so far the gameplay is way behind that.

GamesBeat’s Mike Minotti and I tried it out briefly at a recent press event ahead of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game trade event in Los Angeles. Inspired by Robert Kirkman’s original graphic novels, Overkill’s The Walking Dead is a four-player co-op multiplayer first-person shooter in which players must band together on a variety of missions and raids to find survivors, secure supplies, and stay alive.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.