The Walking Dead : Starved For Help PC Review

Are you a good decision maker? I am sure in your life you would have faced with tough decisions at least once. Well the same thing can be said about this episode. 

Walking dead episode 2:  Starved for help is less of zombies and more of tough moral decisions we make in the game. The game isn't much different from the first part in terms of gameplay. Its the same linear click and play style. :D which is the essence of the game. But only in the episode we start to realise that the game becomes more bent towards decision making rather than mindless killing of zombies like in left for dead. 

Saved lee's life by sacrificing himself..poor guy

The story starts with lee and group staying in motor inn but with better barricades. People in the group think the place is safer than before. Much to their belief, lee and mark find some walkers attacking a person. Later they meet up with two young people asking for gas in exchange they would provide food. Here's the first tough decision. We don't know these people. Still we need to make decision whether to leave the place or not. I chose to make the deal and decided to check out the farm. The dairy farm is secured with electric fences and can run only on gas. People are seem quite friendly and help the group regroup here to make camp here. 

In exchange for their kindness we decide to secure perimeter by reconnaissance-ing it looking for holes and traps. As we move on lee finds out, bandits are attacking them. Later we are assured a nice dinner. But something goes fishy around the place. Lee finds out that mark is cut brutally and locked in a room who warns us not to eat the food served. The food is actually mark's flesh..how gross can it get? Later we are surrounded and thrown in a room where Mr. Old man starts having heart attack. Remember how i used to hate him from the first episode. I still do but i don't know i decide to save him, making Kenny look bad. Anyway he dies. Too much temper? too bad then. Later we confront the lady of the house and we get to decide whether we need to kill or spare Andy. Which again is big decision only when you play you will understand. 

The game hasn't improved on mechanics but there are lot of options to explore. The decisions made before slowly start affecting this part. Telltale games made the game more of decision making rather than zombie killing spree. The game has presented awesome twist of events leaving the TV series boring. There are complex decisions which i think will drastically change again in the next episode. The problem of cut scene and frame rate dip still exists. 

If i have to say the game has made the story much more exciting and more action oriented and anticipation levels are high for the next episode. Eagerly waiting for the next episode....

My rating is 9.0...