The Walking Dead Review

Game information
Release date: December 11, 2012
Genre: Adventure
Developer:Telltale Games


Synopsis
The living will have to survive amongst the dead in this game based on The Walking Dead, the widely acclaimed comic book series and television series. Across five dark and emotional episodes of gameplay, every decision and action you take can result in the entire story of the game changing around you. Play as Lee Everett, a convicted criminal, who has been given a second chance at life in a world devastated by the undead. With corpses returning to life and survivors stopping at nothing to maintain their own safety, protecting an orphaned girl named Clementine may offer him redemption in a world gone to hell.

Story
You start off the game as Lee Everett a newly convicted criminal on his way to prison. On your way you have a conversation with the police officer that's taking you to prison. While the officer is talking to you he crashes into a person(I believe it was a walker) and flys off the side of the road into a wooded area. you become unconscious and awake in the cop cruiser. You see the cop laying dead 20 feet away from you and that the vehicle is totally demolished. You break out of the car to grab the keys to your cuffs from the
dead police officer. When you grab the keys the police officer comes back as a walker. Trying to run lee falls near a shotgun and one shell. You struggle to put the shell in the gun, but you manage and kill the walker. You start calling out for help and notice shadows in the distance. What you think is people is actually a group of walkers looking for there next meal. You run until you finally reach a fence. Jumping over is your only option to get away from the walkers. Once you hop the fence gun shots leads the horde somewhere else. You stumble into a house and find nobody in it. Soon enough a little girl named clementine sees you lurking into here house. The two of you have a conversation and Lee figures out that clementine is missing her family. Lee decides that he must help the poor defenseless girl find her family. What wild and crazy adventures will you have to go thru to get to her family? Find out by playing The Walking Dead!

Gameplay
The game is not really a shooter at all. It's more like a movie where you get to decide the things Lee says & do. Everything you do effects what happens in the game. So be carefully with what you do and have no regrets! At the end of every "episode"(which is basically levels in this game) it will give you stats on what other players did and how much players did what you did.

Graphics
The graphics really come up short for this game. They aren't very good at all. They are what you would think a Xbox original games graphics would be.

Rating

8.6


Overall this is an amazing game. Absolutely the most amazing storyline I have ever seen. The only thing I can find bad about this game is its graphics and few bugs. I would recommend this to any gamer who is looking for a good adventure game. Also the first episode is FREE right now on the Xbox live market place. Give it a try gamers!