The Walking Dead : Assault Celebrating The Upcoming Mayan Apocalypse

The Walking Dead: Assault, the new iOS game based on Kirkman's popular "Walking Dead" franchise, begins celebration of the Mayan apocalypse today!

By Nathan Best

12/13/2012

Beginning today, Skybound, publisher of The Walking Dead: Assault and Robert Kirkman, creator of The Walking Dead, Invincible, Thief of Thieves and Super Dinosaur, will host “the 9 days of the Apocalypse”, a celebration of our forthcoming apocalypse as predicted by the Mayans.

To celebrate this pivotal event in human history, Robert Kirkman is hosting a “9 days of the Apocalypse” event, where every day at 11AM PST on his Twitter feed, @RobertKirkman, he will set a new daily challenge for players of The Walking Dead: Assault.

Winners of each challenge will be awarded prizes that will be kept secret until the challenge is made, however, know that some of these will be very special items you will not be able to find anywhere else.

The Walking Dead: Assault features authentic locations from comic book series all visualized in a 3D art style based the comic series iconic look. Playing as their favorite characters from the books, users can trigger distractions including flares and car alarms in order to keep their team safe from walkers, all while utilizing intuitive controls designed for iOS. The Walking Dead: Assault features a Universal App allowing a one-time purchase to run on all of the purchaser's Apple mobile devices. The game is optimized for the iPhone 5 retina display and is automatically enhanced for iPad.

The Walking Dead: Assault is now available for iOS via the AppStore.

About The Walking Dead: Assault

Players assemble and upgrade their ultimate team of four, chosen from The Walking Dead favorites: Rick, Lori, Carl, Glenn, Shane, Andrea, Carol, Sophia and Dale. Players utilize the characters' unique abilities to fight their way through the undead hordes while completing bonus objectives and challenges to unlock exclusive content from The Walking Dead including artwork, wallpapers, behind-the-scenes trivia, and Game Center achievements. The game allows players to collect future episodes that parallel the ongoing comic timeline. Players can join The Walking Dead universe and prove their skills to other players with Game Center leaderboards, four levels of difficulty and endless possibilities for challenges.

The Walking Dead: Assault was released on Nov 30th and is the first action-orientated game from The Walking Dead world. An forthcoming update is set to improve and adds upon the current experience. View/Post Comments