GAME REVIEW: The Walking Dead - Episode 1 (M)

I’m going to try to not give away any spoilers, and some of the stuff that happened in the game was because of some of the choices I made in the game. So it’s not going to be exactly the same for someone else, but anyway, here’s the review.

I just finished playing the game, and it was a lot of fun but it’s way too short. I know it’s only the first episode of a 5-episode game, but the length of the game still annoyed me.

One of the other annoyances of mine is that some of the puzzles were a little too easy to figure out, it might just be because I grew up with point-and-click adventure games but the puzzles just seemed really simple. There were a few difficult ones, but none that I’d call ‘hard’.

The one last annoyance was that there weren’t as many options as I would have liked, some parts of the game I wished I could have had another option to say but nevertheless, the options you’re given are usually fine.

The rest of the game though was a joy to play, that they allowed you only a few seconds to pick a choice bugged me the first few minutes, but as the game went on, I grew to appreciate it as not making so that players would over-think everything.

The characters felt like real people and most of them were a lot of fun to talk to, which you got to do quite a bit as it was more about the characters and how they reacted to the infection than about the zombies. Occasionally, the characters would do something stupid like not know that they have to put batteries into a radio to get it to work, but those moments happened very little.

So at the end, I definitely would recommend this game to anyone who likes a point-and-click adventure game or even someone who wants to try one for the first time. Although, if you were hoping that it was going to be a zombie-shooter game like Left 4 Dead, then you’re going to be disappointed.