The Walking Dead: A New Frontier

"The Walking Dead: Season Three" redirects here. For the third season of the television series, see The Walking Dead season 3.
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
Developer(s)Telltale Games
Publisher(s)Telltale Games
Director(s)
  • Jason Latino
  • Rebekah Gamin Arcovitch
  • Chris Rebbert
  • Chris Rieser
  • Jason Pyke
Producer(s)Lisa Schulz
Designer(s)
  • Matt Boland
  • Jean-Francois Guastalla
  • Matt Allmer
  • Chris Schroyer
  • Stephen McManus
Programmer(s)
  • Randy Tudor
  • Grady Standard
  • David R. Chaverri
Artist(s)Tara Rueping
Writer(s)
  • Brad Kane
  • James Windeler
  • Luke McMullen
  • Adam Esquenazi Douglas
Composer(s)Jared Emerson-Johnson
SeriesThe Walking Dead
EngineTelltale Tool
Platform(s)
Release
Episode 1
    • WW: December 20, 2016[1]
Episode 2
    • WW: December 20, 2016[1]
Episode 3
    • WW: March 28, 2017[2]
Episode 4
    • WW: April 25, 2017[3]
Episode 5
    • WW: May 30, 2017[4]
Nintendo Switch
  • WW: January 21, 2020
Genre(s)
Mode(s)Single-player

The Walking Dead: A New Frontier[a] is a 2016 episodic graphic adventure video game based on the comic book series of the same name developed by Telltale Games. It is the sequel to The Walking Dead: Season Two, and the third game in The Walking Dead video game series. The first two episodes were released on December 20, 2016, while a retail season pass disc edition was released on February 7, 2017.[5][6][7] 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. The player choices recorded in save files from the first two seasons and the additional episode 400 Days carry over into the third season.[8]

The game takes place in the same fictional world as the comic, where a zombie apocalypse has caused society to collapse. The main characters of the game are mostly 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. Clementine (voiced by Melissa Hutchison), who was the player's companion during the first season and the protagonist in season two,[9] returns as a playable character, but the main protagonist of the season is an original character named Javier "Javi" Garcia (voiced by Jeff Schine).[10][11] In A New Frontier, Javi and Clementine must work together with other survivors to rescue their respective families from the eponymous group, which Clementine used to be a member of.

Unlike the first two seasons, the game received mixed reviews from critics with praise aimed at its new cast of characters, updated engine, certain aspects of its choices and overall new direction, but criticism for the short episode lengths, treatment of the second season's endings, some of its characters, and Clementine's perceived shift to a supporting role. A fourth and final season, titled The Walking Dead: The Final Season, with Clementine as the main protagonist, was episodically released from August 26, 2018 to March 26, 2019.[12]

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  5. ^ "Telltale Games Planning The Walking Dead Season Two". The Escapist. 7 July 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
  6. ^ "The Walking Dead Season Two Insinuated by Telltale". Joystiq. Archived from the original on 2012-12-03. Retrieved 2011-03-08.
  7. ^ "More The Walking Dead Games in the Way From Telltale, Activision". Gamasutra. Archived from the original on 2012-11-09. Retrieved 2011-03-08.
  8. ^ "Telltale Looking Into Save Game Imports for The Walking Dead Season 2". MTV.com. 2013-01-07. Archived from the original on January 24, 2013. Retrieved 2013-01-08.
  9. ^ Goldfarb, Andrew (2013-07-20). "Comic-Con: Clementine Will Be in Walking Dead Game Season 2". IGN. Archived from the original on 2013-07-22. Retrieved 2013-07-20.
  10. ^ Dornbush, Jonathon (2016-06-12). "E3 2016: Telltale's The Walking Dead: Season 3 Will Have New Playable Character - IGN". Au.ign.com. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference Kotaku review was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ Nunneley, Stephanny (July 19, 2017). "The Wolf Among Us 2, The Walking Dead: The Final Season coming in 2018, Batman: The Enemy Within out in August". VG247. Archived from the original on August 2, 2017. Retrieved July 19, 2017.


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