‘The Walking Dead’ Gets an Expensive Anti-Zombie Board Game
It was only a matter of time, and the only real surprise for me was that the game in question is branded for the comic book and not the TV series; although perhaps the plan is to issue two versions and rake in even more dough.
At this price point that could get lucrative fast:
Hitting shelves in late summer, “The Walking Dead” board game will let you play as Rick, Andrea, and the rest of the “Walking Dead” cast as you fight off zombies, gather supplies, and simply try to survive in the series’ post-apocalyptic world. You can get your exclusive first look at the game’s box and promo art below, courtesy of Robert Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment and publisher Z-Man Games.
The 1-6 player game will sell for $39.99, but let’s be honest, folks — can you really put a pricetag on learning the skills that will help you survive a zombie apocalypse?
Oh yes, the ‘zombie apocalypse’, and the skills to survive it. Well, MTV, here’s a quick primer: you require the same skills to survive the ‘zombie apocalypse’ as to survive abduction by talking animals from Narnia, or the ‘Rapture’ from last weekend. That is to say, none.
Because it won’t happen, because Zombies are people too, and are interested by and large in peaceful coexistence with their Living brethren.
Honestly, what kind of ego does it take to assume that you’re the most delicious foodstuff on the planet? People just aren’t that tasty. The Zombophobes need to get over themselves.
Still, with any luck you too can simulate the intractable and seemingly endless experience of The Walking Dead comics, watching a largely interchangeable cast of idiots stumble into situations that a child could see coming and get themselves killed by a mostly faceless horde of vicious Anti-Zombie stereotypes.
For forty dollars.
It’s getting expensive to hate Zombies.
Hat tip to Alien Bee Entertainment News on this one.
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