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The Walking Dead: The Final Season

Platform(s): Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Genre: Action/Adventure
Developer: Telltale Games
Release Date: Aug. 14, 2018

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'The Walking Dead: The Final Season' (ALL) Online Story Builder Lets You Import Saves

by Rainier on Aug. 2, 2018 @ 8:27 a.m. PDT

The final chapter of Clementine's journey begins where you will define your relationships, fight the undead, and determine how Clementine's story ends.

Clementine, now a fierce and capable survivor, has reached the final chapter in her journey.

After years on the road facing threats both living and dead, a secluded school might finally be her chance for a home. But protecting it will mean sacrifice. Clem must build a life and become a leader while still watching over AJ, an orphaned boy and the closest thing to family she has left. In this gripping, emotional final season, you will define your relationships, fight the undead, and determine how Clementine's story ends.


The Walking Dead: The Final Season Story Builder, an interactive, browser-based experience that allows you to relive the series' most impactful story-branching moments. Your choices in the Story Builder produce a unique version of Clementine that can later be imported into the game itself. These choices will then be reflected in The Final Season.

Upon completing the Story Builder, you will be given the option to sign in to your Telltale Games Account and save your results to the cloud. By logging into this same account when playing The Final Season on PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, you will be able to download your Story Builder choices into the game. The Story Builder will also be available within The Final Season and will be localized in multiple languages for launch. Alternatively, you can import your existing series save files into the game.

In addition to building a custom choice profile, those who complete the online Story Builder will also receive a downloadable poster that reflects their individual choices, with 32 total poster variations available. These posters were created by Telltale's Todd Pound, while visuals for the Story Builder itself were crafted by noted comic book artist Dan Panosian and animator Daniel Kanemoto. Kanemoto also animated the very first The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series trailer in 2012.

The Story Builder is available now and can be accessed here.

In order to make the import process as painless as possible, here's a this step-by-step guide to walk you through everything.

After finishing the Story Builder, choose to link to your Telltale Games Account on the end screen, which will then upload your decisions to the cloud. When booting up The Walking Dead: The Final Season, you will be asked if you’d like to import a save. Click "Yes" and the game will ask whether you want to "Import Local Save" or "Check for Choice Data." Select "Check for Choice Data" and you will be prompted to log in to your Telltale Account. Login to your Telltale Account and the game will access your data from the Telltale Servers.

FROM THE WALKING DEAD COLLECTION

When you boot up The Walking Dead: The Final Season, you will be asked if you’d like to import a save. Click "Yes," and the game will ask whether you want to "Import Local Save" or "Check for Choice Data." Select "Import Local Save" and you will see a save file from The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series Collection appear.

The Walking Dead: The Final Season will recognize save files from completed playthroughs of The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, The Walking Dead: Season Two, and The Walking Dead: A Telltale Series (a.k.a. Season One) from The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series Collection. The Walking Dead: The Final Season will also recognize and accept save files of incomplete playthroughs of Season One from Collection. This partial playthrough perk is only available for Season One.

FROM THE WALKING DEAD: A NEW FRONTIER (STANDALONE GAME)

You can either import a local save from your machine or use a cloud save via your Telltale Games Account. Your must have completed your playthrough of A New Frontier for the save file to be valid. When booting up The Walking Dead: The Final Season, you will be asked if you’d like to import a save. Click "Yes" and the game will ask whether you want to "Import Local Save" or "Check for Choice Data." Select “Import Local Save” to import a save file that is already saved directly on your system. Select “Check for Choice Data” and you will be prompted to log in to your Telltale Account, where you can access your data from the Telltale Servers.

Note that PlayStation 4 versions of The Walking Dead: The Final Season will only intake PlayStation 4, PC, iOS, and Android cloud saves of A New Frontier.

Xbox One versions of The Walking Dead: The Final Season will accept cloud saves from Xbox One, PC, Win10, iOS, and Android cloud saves of A New Frontier.

PC versions of The Walking Dead: The Final Season will accept cloud saves from PC, Xbox One, PS4, Win10, iOS, and Android versions of A New Frontier.

Windows 10 versions of The Walking Dead: The Final Season will accept cloud saves from Win10, PC, Xbox One, iOS and Android versions of A New Frontier.

Key Features:

  • Emotional, Gut-Wrenching Story - See Clementine's journey through to the end. As she builds a new life, you will have to grapple with new types of choices and live with the consequences as AJ looks on, learning from your every move.
  • More Control, More Tension - A new over-the-shoulder camera system, greater freedom to explore detailed environments, and scenes with unscripted combat capture the fear of living in a world overrun by the undead and create the most engaging The Walking Dead game yet.
  • Striking New Visual Style - The all-new Graphic Black art style rips the ink from the pages of the Eisner Award-winning comic book series and brings the world of The Walking Dead to life like never before. Supports 4K resolution and high dynamic range on compatible devices.

Starting June 8, players will be able to pre-order the game on PC, PS4, and Xbox One for $19.99. All players who pre-order The Final Season will receive download access to each of the season's four episodes as they become available. Players who pre-order on PS4 and Xbox One will also receive immediate access to The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series Collection, which gathers all 19 existing episodes of the award-winning series into a single package.

PC players who pre-order on Steam, GOG, GamersGate, MacGameStore, or the Humble Store will receive 10% off the full retail price. Win10 pre-orders through the Microsoft Store will unlock season one of The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series. All pre-order offers expire August 14.

In addition, The Walking Dead: The Final Season will be fully dubbed in French, German, Latin-American Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese. It will also be subtitled in French, German, Latin-American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Russian, and both traditional and simplified Chinese. Episode one voice packs and translations will be available for download on launch day.

The Walking Dead is set in the world of Robert Kirkman's award-winning comic book series and offers an emotionally-charged experience in which players' actions and choices determine the course of the story across the entire series. More information regarding players' ability to transfer their existing save files into The Final Season will be available soon.

The Walking Dead: The Final Season will be available for download starting August 14, 2018 on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One across all regions. The Final Season will also come to Nintendo Switch later this year.


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