{"id":49257,"date":"2013-01-11T12:58:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T10:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=49257"},"modified":"2013-01-11T13:03:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T11:03:07","slug":"the-walking-dead-survival-instinct-release-date-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/49257-the-walking-dead-survival-instinct-release-date-announced","title":{"rendered":"The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct release date announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Walking Dead&#8217;s first-person game (not to be confused with Telltale Games&#8217; adventure version) has been given a release date. The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct will arrive on 16 March 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Activision\u2019s Walking Dead game is being developed by Terminal Reality and will be a stealth\/action FPS, as opposed to Telltale Games&#8217; well-paced, story-driven horror adventure.<\/p>\n<p>The game is a\u00a0prequel\u00a0to the TV show, and is set in the Georgia countryside focusing on\u00a0Daryl\u00a0and\u00a0Merle Dixon\u00a0as they fight their way through the walkers and make their way to Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>Both\u00a0Norman Reedus\u00a0and\u00a0Michael Rooker\u00a0were confirmed to reprise their respective roles in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Some alpha footage of the game also leaked early. Don\u2019t take it as the final product, but it gives an indication of what the game may be like.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PA8_MSWlDj8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"The Walking Dead first episode free on iOS App Store\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48619-the-walking-dead-first-episode-free-on-ios-app-store.html\">The Walking Dead first episode free on iOS App Store<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"The Walking Dead: Assault is a new strategy game for iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48036-the-walking-dead-assault-is-a-new-strategy-game-for-ios.html\">The Walking Dead: Assault is a new strategy game for iOS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"The Walking Dead FPS gets a teaser trailer\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41055-the-walking-dead-fps-gets-a-teaser-trailer.html\">The Walking Dead FPS gets a teaser trailer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39367-zombiu-one-of-e3s-standout-titles.html\" target=\"_blank\">ZombiU \u2013 one of E3\u2032s standout titles<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40897-activision-to-release-walking-dead-fps.html\" target=\"_blank\">Activision to release Walking Dead FPS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct will be shambling into a store near you pretty soon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":49045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,587,8228,5556,8227],"class_list":["post-49257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-activision","tag-guru3d","tag-walking-dead-fps","tag-walking-dead-gameplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49259,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49257\/revisions\/49259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}