Sunday, 5 January 2014

2012.44: The Walking Dead

Some choices are way too tailored, and sometimes you feel the game is automatically pushing you to a 'branch' in the road in the story which left me with a disconnected feel like "um, if it was TRULY up to me, we wouldn't have have got here..." but outside those issues it was a great interactive story for me.

It seems I am a fan of those and even though this has nowhere the quality of Heavy Rain in every aspect you can think of, it is similar in design and in some cases matches the intensity.

However gameplay wise, I do have one major complaint. And that is the 'puzzles'. They throw in "puzzles" for the sake of them and they turn out to be really dull to figure out. Coming from Telltale I would have expected more interesting ones but they obviously just wanted something to link the gameplay between the choices. This ended up hurting the overall experience. Find another filler element or skip it all together would be my recommendation.

Overall, a story worth interacting with.

7/10.

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