The protagonist of A New Frontier is Javier "Javi" Garcia (Jeff Schine), a former professional baseball player. The game is primarily set four years after the apocalypse began.
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier follows on the first game, and coincides with events of the comic, in which a zombie apocalypse has occurred, turning humans that are bitten or die into zombies, or "walkers" the only way to stop this conversion is to damage the brain. Players may also opt to use the default backstory that Telltale has created as the basis for the game. Telltale will also provide a separate tool for players to "quick-create a tailored backstory" for Clementine to this point, with a possible 42 different variations, and create a save file from which to start the new season with.
A New Frontier will incorporate player choices made in previous games in the series through existing save files Telltale states they will offer multiple options for how players can bring in previous saves into the game, including for players that have switched their choice of platform prior to A New Frontier.Ī New Frontier will not be released on the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, but players that have saves from Season Two on these platforms will be able to download a patch on those consoles as to upload their saved game to Telltale's servers, and then access that from their new choice of platform.
The player's choices and actions will impact story elements in later episodes for example, a character that the player does not choose to be saved will not appear in later scenes. Such action scenes may also require the player to make a key decision within a limited time frame, such as which of two characters to save from attacking walkers. If the player fails these events, the game will restart at the start of such scenes. Other scenes are more action-oriented, requiring the player to complete quick time events to prevent the player-character or their allies from getting killed. Such choices can affect how the other characters will later react to the player-character which can influence later events in the story. Certain replies from other characters may offer the player multiple choices to select from, including the option to stay silent, with a limited amount of time to make the selection if the player does not select an option, the conversation will continue as if they had stayed quiet. The player can also initiate conversations with non-player characters via conversation trees. Players can direct the current character under their control around the environment, examine and interact with various scenery elements and collect and use objects to advance the story. In contrast to previous seasons, there will be two playable characters: Clementine, the heroine from the previous games and Javier, a new character introduced this season. Similar to the previous seasons, The Walking Dead: A New Frontier is a point-and-click adventure game. The main characters of the game are original characters however, due to time skips in season two and between seasons two and three, the timeline is caught up to where the comics are.Ī fourth and final season, titled The Walking Dead: The Final Season, was released in August 2018. The game takes place in the same fictional world as the comic, with the zombie apocalypse having occurred. The player choices recorded in save files from the first two seasons and the additional episode "400 Days" carry over into the third season.Ĭlementine (voiced by Melissa Hutchison), who was the player's companion during the first season and the player-character in season two returns as a player-character along with another player-character, Javier "Javi" Garcia (voiced by Jeff Schine). The game employs the same narrative structure as the past seasons, where player choice in one episode will have a permanent impact on future story elements. It is Telltale's third season of its The Walking Dead series, with the first two episodes released on December 20, 2016, and a retail season pass disc edition released on February 7, 2017. The Walking Dead: A New Frontier is an episodic adventure video game based on The Walking Dead comic book series developed by Telltale Games.