Telltale Games are offering codes for the entire first season of the Walking Dead to those affected by performance problems on 4GB versions of the Xbox 360. These issues only affect the disc-based version of the game, with one bug causing severe stuttering and freezing during gameplay. Since the boxed edition has only launched in the US, this shouldn't affect UK players.
If you've encountered problems, you can sign up here to download five episodes for free, accounting for 2.85GB of space in total (at the time of writing the website appears to be down). The only other way around the problem is to install a new hard drive.
Telltale has also promised to fix a bug that resets your progress in episode 1. A new title update is apparently on the way.
The Walking Dead is one of last year's bigger success stories, with 8.5 million episodes downloaded as of 7th January. A release date for the UK version of the boxed edition has yet to be announced.
By Alex Hawksworth-Brookes
3 comments so far...
ventanger on 10 Jan '13 said:
That's strange. I have the on-disc version of the game, but not a 4gb Xbox, and I still experienced the freezing, the crashing, the stuttering, and even the progress being reset to episode 1. If I take a picture of my 360's serial number and console id, and they use that to find that my console isn't a 4gb edition, will they deny my request?
GossipHound on 10 Jan '13 said:
Could I remind OXM of issue 68 (January '11) and your Hero/Zero section (page 22) and I quote:
"Walking Dead TV Series - It wouldn't work as a game. Don't even think about it."
What flavour of humble pie do you want?
P.S. still love the magazine!
ChillieBonBon on 10 Jan '13 said:
I got all the walking dead episodes on the ipad and I have to say that they are great! I would of got it on the xbox but my ipad was in serious need of some form of entertainment.