If you are like me you might have noticed that over the
last five or more years there has been an increase in the amount of content
across all forms of media when it comes to Zombies. This is fine with me even
though I am not a massive fan of the genre but there has been one stand out
piece that everyone has been talking about for the last three years and that is
The Walking Dead.
Today I will be looking at the point and click
adventure of The Walking Dead the video game that was released last year by
Telltale Games but before we get into the game itself let me mention that The
Walking Dead started off as a graphic novel that was created by Robert Kirkman,
Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard back in 2003. Then in 2010 AMC then released a television
adoption of the comic book which from what I have read and hear has been met
with very high praises.
With all this praise it was only going to be a matter
of time before someone decided to make a video game out of it and nine times
out of ten that video game is going to be nothing like the show that it was created
from but lucky for us Telltale Games decided that they would make a game based
on The Walking Dead but as a point and click adventure.
Now I have never seen or read anything to do with The
Walking Dead but from all the praise that the show and the game have received I
knew that I would have to have a look at it at some point, lucky for me all
five chapters went on sale back in March so I decide then that I would pick it up
but have only just finished playing the game.
I
should point out that from this point onwards there could be a chance of spoilers,
so you have been warned.
Now as I said moments ago I went into the game
completely blind and I had no knowledge of what I was getting myself into but
that didn’t really matter because the game starts just as the Zombie outbreak happens.
This to me was a good way to start the story because it allows for those that
are new to the series to understand what is going on and enables you to experience
what the characters are experiences as they learn something new about their
surroundings.
Now without giving too much away for those that haven’t
played the game yet, this is a story about a group of characters trying to survive
the aftermath of the Zombie apocalypse, at the same time you will be playing as
Lee Everett and making choice that will effect the group and Clementine who you
find at the start of the game and have taken it upon yourself to protect.
As I have just mentioned this game allows you to make
choice that can be carried over from one episode of the game to the next. Now if
you have read any of my Mass Effect blogs that I released back in March you will
know that I enjoy playing games and watching Television shows that show you the
consequences of your actions. In this game these choice you make may not appear
till later in the game which is good because you will never know on your first
play through when these choice will come back to haunt you.
The way in which the game plays also is very good for a
game that is based on a point and click adventure, what I mean by this is the
fact the game makes you feel like you are in the games world looks for items
that will enable you to survive.
The last part of the game that I enjoy was the way in
which the characters develop throughout the game, as the game goes fewer on it
throws in events were you have to make hard decision and because of these decision
you as a character and those around you change as the story goes on.
So with a game that has been praised so much what were
the problems that I had with this game, well one of biggest problems that I encountered
was with the conversation options. The reason for the problem was the fact that
it would give you up to four options when you are having a conversation with
someone along with a time limit in which to give one of the four responses to them.
Now I will admit that I am not one of the fastest readers and because of this I
sometimes didn’t get the time to read all the options that where present to me
and because of this sometimes I didn’t chose anything which just left my
character saying nothing.
The next two problems I had with the game was to do with
the story itself, I am not saying that the story was bad because to me it was
very good but there were parts were I knew what was going to happen before it
happened and that wasn’t because I had read up what was going to happen. Examples
of this would be when you leave the motel in episode 3 and arrive at the train
that is blocking the road, another one for me was also at the end of the fourth
episode where you see Clementine’s hat next to a dumpster.
This also leads me into the final problem with the
story, you are given the choice to go it alone to save Clementine which was
what I decided but before I could go I had to have a chat with everyone were
they would tell me if they are coming with me or not and even then when the
final chapter gets started you end up coming back to the group that you left in
chapter four to find Clementine.
Apart from very long conversation sections of the game and
the small grips with the story the game as a whole was brilliant and because of
that I now have an interested in The Walking Dead. If you are a fan of the show
and haven’t played the game yet I would recommend you do so and if you are a
gamer that likes a good story or a good game in general then I would recommend that
you go and play this game right now.
Until Next Time.
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