Fortnite Features The Walking Dead’s Rick Grimes During Halloween Event

Fortnite is gaining yet another special guest player skin as part of this month’s Fortnitemares Halloween event: Sheriff Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead. Grimes will be featured alongside fellow TWD heroes Darryl Dixon and Michonne, who were previously added to Fortnite as playable characters to commemorate the ongoing hit AMC television series last December.

Over the past few years, Fortnite has become one of gaming’s biggest crossover experiences, with playable skins of popular characters from all manner of video games, comics, movies, and TV shows appearing in Epic’s massively successful battle royale shooter. Even real-life celebrities have joined in on the fun thanks to Travis Scott and Ariana Grande hosting visually stunning virtual concerts in Fortnite to great effect. Meanwhile, rumors suggested that another Walking Dead character would be joining Darryl and Michonne in Fortnite back in July, and now this has been confirmed just in time for Halloween.

As reported by PCGamesN, Fortnite’s official Twitter account has just confirmed that The Walking Dead’s Rick Grimes is now available as a playable character skin for 1500 V-Bucks. For a larger price of 1900 V-Bucks, players can also pick up a bundle of Walking Dead-themed gear including a walker club, backpack, and even a fiery crashing satellite glider – as well as an alternate, jacket-wearing Rick Grimes skin. Additionally, the previously available Darryl Dixon and Michonne character and gear packs are also returning, with players able to purchase them separately or as part of a discounted bundle for 2500 V-Bucks. However, players will still have to purchase the new Rick Grimes content separately.

As mentioned before, this new Walking Dead character skin coincides with Fortnite’s month-long Fortnitemares event, an annual Halloween celebration that adds new monster-themed skins and events all October long. This year’s spooktacular festivities include the new Frankenstein’s Monster, Curdle Scream Leader, and Mummy skins, as well as the return of Fortnite’s Shortnitemares film festival. Fornitemares 2021 will also see the continuation of Season 8’s attack of The Cubes, which began right on the heels of Season 7’s alien invasion.

Rick Grimes hasn’t been seen on The Walking Dead since Andrew Lincoln departed from the show back in 2018, but he remains a popular and noteworthy character among fans of both it and the award-winning Image Comics series it is based on – making him a great addition to Fortnite alongside his fellow survivors Darryl and Michonne. Players are now able to jump into the creepy battle royale as Rick starting today, with even more frightful content likely coming to Fortnite as this month’s Fortnitemares event continues.

Source: PCGamesN, Fortnite/Twitter

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