( ) 7/8 Outstanding game, a milestone of it‘s respective genre. ( ) 6/8 Great game, universal recommendation. Worth 20 to 25 bucks max, if you are not a fan.
(X) 5/8 Good game, Must-play for genre- / series-fans. Only for hardcore-fans of respective genre / series. Worth a couple of Cents at best, if at all. Seriously flawed with barely any redeeming qualities. ( ) 0/8 Simply one of the worst games ever made. But within its own genre, it is definitely one of the best titles for its writing alone and therefore a must-play for fans of this particular type of game or people who want to get into it, not to mention people who love anything involving Zombies.Īlready looking forward to play the remaining seasons. Consequently, when it comes to The Walking Dead in particular, I certainly don't think of it as anything mindblowingly great or outstandingly special in the grand scheme of things.
I'm not the biggest fan of those interactive movie thingys, and in addition to that, the replay value of those "games" is quite small in general, unless you really want to figure out how every decision alters some story bits. And in the end, that's what makes The Walking Dead so recommendable: The gameplay is lackluster and basic at best, but the story and characters completely outweight this flaw. Still, the whole plot sticks with you for quite some time after you finished the game and makes you a little bit melancholic when it's finally over, due to the excellently written characters.
Unfortunately I already got the ending spoiled for me years before I actually got to play the game, so it somehow lacked the emotional weight that it probably has when you don't already see what's coming from the very start. Very few times have i seen and heard such believable characters and dialogue in a game, and even though some of them remain somewhat bland or uninteresting, it really affects you in one way or another everytime someone of them dies or gets left behind.
The overarching story is far from being anything special (basically the common Zombie-Apocalypse-Group-of-Survivors-Thing) and at some points it seems pretty contrived, too, but the writing and development of the characters is some of the best you'll ever see in videogames in general, and the game effortlessly surpasses some actual series and movies. For the very most part, The Walking Dead is an interactive movie through and through and since it is about 10 years old now, it unsurprisingly doesn't include the minor gameplay innovations of some of the following genre titles.ĭespite it being absolutely barebones and outdated in terms of exicting gameplay even for this genre, The Walking Dead is about as good as it gets when it comes to modern adventures / interactive movies. There is not much challenging puzzle solving, since it is obvious what to do next all the time, and apart from the occasional QTE and a handful of very short "iron sights" sequences where you get to actually aim with your gun and shoot a few zombies, there is no action-oriented gameplay at all. In "The Walking Dead" you don't do much more than walk around in areas not bigger than a few squaremetres and just click on anything until the story progresses. Gameplaywise, it's extremely simplistic and downright boring and tedious at times, but the story and characters more than make up for that.