The Walking Dead
2012
- point-and-click
- puzzle
- adventure
- action
- horror
- survival
- drama
- single player
The story
The Walking Dead: Season One (also known as The Walking Dead: The Game) is an episodic interactive drama graphic adventure video game developed and published by Telltale Games. Based on Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comic book series, the game consists of five episodes, released between April and November 2012. It is available for Android, iOS, Kindle Fire HDX, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game is the first of The Walking Dead video game series published by Telltale.
What it’s like
Flat, painterly cel-shading in muted greens, rust and grey-blue gives the walls, roads and farmhouse interiors the look of a comic page, with heavy black outlines and dusk light that hangs low over empty Georgia countryside. Camera angles are cinematic and deliberate, cutting between tight close-ups on faces and wide shots of abandoned towns, while the score is sparse: a plucked guitar line, long stretches of wind and insects, and sudden silence that makes every footstep and gunshot land. Its vibe is bleak but humane, a melancholy road-trip unease with flashes of tenderness, best suited to a late evening alone or a weekend session spread across several sittings. Pacing is episodic and dialogue-heavy, with quick-time choices that force hard decisions under pressure, and the emotional arc follows a reluctant, weary man becoming responsible for a child, shaped by loss and the question of who you can trust. Violence is frequent and sometimes graphic, with zombie attacks, blood spatter and bullet impacts, plus harsh profanity and some disturbing scenes of death and cruelty; it is intense rather than gratuitous, and it is not suitable for anyone seeking something gentle. It suits players who want story-driven survival drama with real moral weight and are happy to live with consequences.
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