The few times you are in real peril are both significant and memorable battles. Gone are the never-ending stream of quick time events, they have been replaced by a cursor that allows you to aim shots and interact with the environment. While many of the exciting moments Jurassic Park fell flat, I couldn't take my eyes off the screen for a moment of The Walking Dead. We all know that this developer can craft a good puzzle or two, but it turns out that they know a thing or two about tension-filled action scenes. There are two major set pieces in the final act that offer most of the game's puzzles, which largely consists of helping a group of helpless survivors as they try to figure out what their next move should be. The puzzle solving here is fairly light, but it does break up long stretches of nothing but dialog and zombie killing. Occasionally we're forced to go into point and click adventure mode, where we search around the environments picking up inventory items and using them in a very specific order. All told, the game has five or six major locations, something that keeps the pacing up and the action moving.
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Here we're introduced to even more people, which send us on an adventure full of puzzle solving, zombie killing and surviving. They talk about a family farm, which seems like the perfect spot to lay low. This eight year old girl has been surviving alone in her tree house for days, so Lee takes her under his wing to keep her safe.īefore long the two survivors meet up with a couple of guys trying to steal a car. He quickly finds his way into a suburban development, where he meets up with Clementine. After escaping a nasty car wreck, our hero is forced to defend himself against an army of undead walkers. You play all of episode one as the same character, a mild-mannered felon named Lee.
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It's also a great ambassador for the comic book of the same name, in a way that the hugely successful TV show can only dream of. This is a massively exciting adventure game that takes its cues from both new and old school point and click classics. Although it may look like it suffers from many of the same problems as Jurassic Park, the truth is that Telltale managed to fix everything and completely right the ship. The good news is that The Walking Dead: A New Day is that kind of game. It was going to take a mighty good game to make us forget about Jurassic Park. Instead of playing a compelling adventure game, we were stuck in a hell filled with loathsome quick-time events. After an otherwise strong line-up of point and click adventure franchises (including Sam & Max, Monkey Island, Back to the Future and more), all of the company's good will was thrown out the window with the hugely disappointing Jurassic Park. Thankfully the rest also holds up nicely.Īs I mentioned, this is Telltale's first adventure game post-Jurassic Park. Any skepticism I had going in was put rest with this expertly crafted introduction. The Walking Dead is a return to form after Telltale's miserable Jurassic Park experiment. This was the moment I breathed a sigh of relief. Something bad is going on.ĭespite knowing exactly what was going on, I found myself riveted to the computer screen. All the while, our "hero" is noticing police cars, ambulances, helicopters and other emergency workers speeding in the opposite direction. The nameless policeman has an engaging conversation about how he can tell who is and isn't guilty based solely on what they have to say. You play the man in the back seat, an African American gentleman who may or may not have killed a sitting U.S. The Walking Dead opens in a police car driving away from the big city.
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