The Walking Dead: The Game - Season 1

When I first heard a game was being made with the title 'The Walking Dead' I jumped for joy. I love the show and was hyped as hell for the game. But when I learned that it wasn't based around the characters from the show, I started to lose interest. I mean, no characters from the show? This game is gonna fail badly. But around it was released, I decided to give it the benefit of the doubt and bought it. And let me just say, I was completely wrong to judge it before release. This game blew my expectations away. It's full of decisions and choices you struggle to pick and packed with so much emotion it toyed with my own. Anyone considering to buy this game; buy it. It is worth every single cent.

The Walking Dead - The Game goes back to the zombie genre's roots, and turns the zombies into sources of horror instead of gun targets - that is what I think might be the most important aspect of this game, since there are no hordes a la Left 4 Dead to gun down.

And that is important I think to know. The story that plays out is very character driven, and it is more important to interact the right way with the right person than finding a Big F_cking Gun to mow down zombies with.

The protagonist: As in many other games, it is not possible to make your own character - you play as the former university teacher Lee Everett, starting out on his way to prison. This is in some ways a weak point - the game doesn't become so much of an RPG as an interactive film, but luckily, Lee is interesting enough so you don't loose interest in him.

Gameplay: Playing the game on a PC is a breeze - a lot of effort has gone into making sure you only need the movement keys and the mouse to play the game - the inventory is only accessed when needed and everything is lined up in a very straightforward way, from responses to actions.

Here I should also mention that people listens to what you say (or not say in some cases) and remembers it. This is a quite simple way of getting the player involved, especially when people starts referring to what you have said earlier.

Script: Since each episode provides about 2 hours of gameplay, here is the really great strength of the game: in a very short time, you get to know the people around you, and when something happens you CARE. Some very intelligent writing has gone into the game to make sure you will get a very real, and very genuine feeling out of it.

Rating: The game is rated M, and in such a game, it would be almost mandatory to include a couple of steaming sex scenes, but they are very absent. This is actually part of the game's appeal - there is no forced love scene with someone you don't really want to get involved in - but there IS blood. And a lot of it.

Graphics: Since the game is based on the comics, it has taken on graphics that resembles that. This is kind of cool, but sometimes, this is taken a little too far, when you see drawn lines as shadows where there shouldn't be any.

Sound and voice acting: Pretty standard. The voice acting could be a little better, but it works.

All in all, this is a great game and the big shame is that the first season is only five chapters long. But there is hope - apparently, there's already a season 2 in the making.

I have just completed this game, and it is a brilliant ride from start to finish. It felt more like an interactive movie/TV show than a game, but for me it was better than the TV show. It makes you invest emotionally in the characters,which makes all the tough choices all the more difficult, every episode had it's standout and unique moments, whether it is the farm, Crawford etc.This game had it's great share of calm and nail-biting moments.Ending of this game is one of the best that I've seen in any media and the soundtrack complimented it greatly, just like it did for the rest of the game.In the end, this game gets easily in one of the best games I have ever played.If you like good stories, apocalypse or zombie stuff, then I highly suggest this game. It's a 10!

Wow! What a game. The whole season was very well made. Even if sometimes we can feel that our choices dont make such a big impact than others the video game clearly have some heartbreaking moment, and some difficult choices to make. The plot keep us engaged and we are attached to Lee and Clementine. And we wonder through the whole video game if they will survive and find what they are looking for. And how they will survive? If the choices that we made can make them more safe or put us in danger. The ending of that game was so emotional and we just want to play the next season.

Hardly a game. This point and click 'game' is essentially an interactive film where the player chooses from speech opinions which have moderately significant impact upon the narrative. Some of these decisions include things such as choosing which character to save out of two which need help, and breaking a promise made to another character in order to do what you think is right (you can also choose not to promise anything initially, resulting in the character you asking for the promise disliking you, but saving you from greater dislike later), etc. The player's choice of speech and actions for the protagonist changes the way in which non-player characters will behave around and towards the protagonist. The ending will likely stick with you for your the rest of your life.