Monday 10 September 2012

The Walking dead : A New Day PC Review




First of all i must admit that i was sceptical whether i have to play this game or not. But then again i couldn't wait longer. If by any chance i waited any longer i would have missed a beautiful game. 
The walking dead: A New day at first sight seems to be more of zombie killing and moving on..but there more to it than meets the eye. This wonderful artistic style game sucks you in to involve you in the game.

Story: Well if u have read the story in comics the game story is almost the same. I am saying 'almost' because here we have the option to make it "my" zombie book. You will understand this if you play the game. In the story rick grimes an officer comes out of hospital only to find the city is infected with zombies and decides to go to Atlanta which he thinks is safer place than this. He meets up with some people and stays with them before moving on. Almost the same thing happens in the game too. Though i said we can change the story as per our decision. That makes this even more fantastic.

Gameplay: Gameplay is awesome. Here, someone will ask you a question and you'll have a limited time to pick one of four responses. Whatever you decide, you live with. Characters remember what you say and take note of your pronoun usage, demeanour, and so on. While this might simply be someone questioning Lee's story (main character forget to mention that :P) in this episode, Telltale says the way people perceive him is going to drastically affect future episodes. What if your squad finds out you've been lying from the get-go? This makes the game wanna play again and again just to see what decisions turns out to be what response. The brutal killing of zombies is also gruesome experience and exciting.
Decision making-an important part of the game
Graphics and sound: Game is presented with artistic cartoon style just like borderlands, though not very sharp in borderlands, but enough to get going. The voice acting is spot on and makes you involve in the game cause the dialogues express emotional pain and suffering the people are facing. Here's the bad part, camera is shit like in some areas and it is difficult to move your ass sometimes. The limited view makes you wanna look everywhere which is not possible.
Zombies- Gruesome !! yuck..
My story: I have tried playing differently making different choices, saving sometimes Doug sometimes Carley. Sometimes making lee a bad guy sometimes good guy. See its all in the style you wanna play and sometimes just to see how the game turns out to be. Must warn you that this decisions can drastically change in later episodes (so i have heard) lets see. If at all i get a choice of saving Larry and anybody stupid, i will let Larry die..He's a real bastard. Thanks to my loyalty towards Kenny he saved my ass. Due to wonky camera, i couldn't save clementine. I saved Carley cause i think she looks sexy...bye bye Doug he he :P 

The bastard on the right can be real jerk sometimes
Well that's my story. Surprisingly i completed in 2.5 to 3 hrs, which actually put me off. I'd expected more. The game isn't exactly adventurous or action filled entertainer but its great suspense thriller and best decision making game i ever played.  Also after playing i felt like there should be more episodes to this collection of awesome game series..

My rating 8.5...



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