The Walking Dead Review

As mentioned earlier, choice is an important aspect of the game. Players will make these choices mostly during conversations with other characters. Some of these are timed, forcing you to quickly make a decision. Other times, decisions are made in the heat of an action scene. Some of these are pretty big decisions, and may completely change your experience. It adds a fair amount of replay value, since after the first play-through, you will likely find an inkling to discover what happens if you had chosen another option instead.

That said, conversations can come across as dull, as most of the options are relatively vague, or similar to one another. For a game where choice has such high standing, it′s surprising that there really isn′t much variety regarding it. Thankfully, voice performances are top-notch. Characters are believable, I found myself quite invested in a few of them, and hating one with a passion.

There is a strange juxtaposed tension to the visuals of The Walking Dead. Telltale do well to avoid the gritty, cinematic aesthetic of games such as Silent Hill, even Left 4 Dead. Instead, The Walking Dead employs a more cartoony style, but that′s where that tension is found. Cartoony or not, there is no sense of lightheartedness to it. Death and loss, blood and gore is the name of the game. There are several encounters where Lee has to struggle for his life, some of which end in a gruesome kill scene. Most of these encounters are quite similar to those seen in EA′s horror survival series Dead Space, but there are at least a couple of scenes that make less use of scare factor, and are more somber in tone– the latter of which have been done exceptionally well.