As one of the more popular pop culture brands of the past 20 years, The Walking Dead franchise has given audiences a vast number of ways to experience the post-apocalypse. But somehow, none of the video games to date have offered up a straightforward zombie adventure on consoles letting fans step into the shoes of all the TV show’s most popular characters, from Rick to Daryl to Michonne. Regardless of how long it took to get here, The Walking Dead: Destinies will soon arrive with its own unique spin on AMC’s live-action universe, although before all that happens, we really need to talk about some of these character designs.
For you see, even though The Walking Dead: Destinies will give players the opportunity to play Jon Bernthal’s morally questionable Shane and reverse the moment in the show when he gets killed, allowing for a TWD timeline where the former cop remained the group’s leader over time, it doesn’t appear as if the actors themselves were involved in any motion-capture for the character designs. Which allows for an amusingly jarring array of familiar faces that just don’t look quite right, as if TWD took place in the same universe as Polar Express.
