The Walking Dead: 400 Days Launches This Week, With a Trailer

The Walking Dead: 400 Days, a DLC episode which expands upon Telltale's brilliant The Walking Dead game, releases this week across multiple platforms. Today, we can see the launch trailer.

Though the DLC doesn't focus on existing characters or plotlines from the Telltale game's season one, it is reported to serve as a bridge between seasons one and the upcoming season two while intersecting with season one's story. Note that those who wish to keep that link unspoiled may want to avoid this trailer and the currently viewable Steam achievements, as they have spoiled for me where Lee's story comes into play.

I'm a big fan of what Telltale is trying to do with this episode, as it is divided up into different chapters (playable in any order) which revolve around each of the episode's main characters. If it works, it should be an intense series of vignettes with Telltale's trademark flair for impossible moral decisions sprinkled throughout. And if season one showed us anything, it's that Telltale has the writing chops to make this work.

The release schedule is as follows:

July 2nd: PS3 (North America)

July 3rd: PC/Mac (via Steam or Telltale's website)

July 5th: Xbox 360 (Worldwide)

July 10th: PS3 (Europe)

July 11th: iOS

A Vita release will follow in August.