The Walking Dead



Zombies just want some hugs

     The walking dead is the newest video game from telltales games and is currently one of the thirty best-selling games on steam. It is not hard to see why this is happening as the game is a point and click that actually challenges the way point and clicks normally work with having the fact that you can tell whether or not you will need an item for a specific task instead of trying absolutely everything in your inventory before working out the puzzle. Puzzles is this game are scarce and the main point of this game is the choices you make as well as the interactions you have with the NPCs around you, no matter how small a choice you make it will effect the game and will come back to haunt you in the end. Although the game does introduce new elements into the point and click genre it still has some of problems such as quick time events that require you to just bash a button as many times as possible until the sequence ends. Anyway the game is set around your character Lee Everett just as the police car that was taking him to jail crashes. You find yourself in the suburbs and rescue a girl called Clementine from her zombie babysitter.
    The main goal of the game is find a safe place to permanently stay for you and Clementine. Throughout the game you meet other survivors and your interactions effect how they act around you for example if you choose to try and save someone or leave them to die. The characters in this are well acted as well as well -written and you come to see them as more than video game characters. My personal favourite character is Clementine though as Lee's relationship Clementine is the best part of the game and you see how she handles all these different situations and how what you say as Lee can influence her behaviour. The ending to this game is the most heartbreaking things I have seen and will bring a tear to the eyes of any video game player out there.
    The most fascinating thing about this game is just how much they actually focus on the characters which doesn't take away from the mechanics and make it some movie but the style of the gameplay compliments the story. The visual style which is sort of comic bookiness look gives you sense that it will be light hearted this is not the case and surprisingly adds to it rather than creating tonal whiplash but thankfully doesn't. Due to the number of choices present in this game it is highly replayable as even one line of dialogue can change someone's attitude towards you. Walking Dead upon its release had an interesting idea split the game into episodes now I would've liked to have seen this in a way to buy a chapter as I go along and still have the option to buy it all at once. Unfortunately you could only buy a season pass on this game
     Now if that isn't enough of an endorsement I recommend checking out a few videos of gameplay on the interwebs to get an idea of whether you'd like this. But personally I will give it a 9/10 is an amazing game and I don't know why you aren't buying this game right now. Stop reading and buy it!!!
"A brief message from me!!!!"
We are reaching my last few posts which undoubtedly will upset both of my readers and also there will be a first person shooter of  the walking dead in 2013 so I look forward to that.