The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct released in 2013. It's a prequel to the show starring the Dixons brothers and their journey to the start of season one. It was a clever ploy as it was released alongside the show when Daryl and Merle were two of the shows most popular characters.
The Dixon brothers, cooperative, story related. I was hyped. I was already planning on playing it with a buddy of mine.... NO COOP, SHITE STORY AND MERLE KEPT FUCKING OFF SOMEWHERE. Why? Why make this? There is no way anyone liked this game or enjoyed it. Burn all copies, bury it like that ET game and please stop making trashy cash ins like this. Honestly, the devs wasted their time making this, they could've put their time into something more valuable.
In 2013 these are the graphics we're paying for? Are you serious? Games that came out in 2006 have better graphics. Just look at Gear of War. Yes you can tell it's Daryl and Merle, but everything else? What the fuck?! The gameplay is awful, I hated the sprinting, the stealthing, the only thing I liked was the crossbow, that was great. You could easily pick up your bolts back too. The melee combat was an atrocity, swinging mindlessly at the heads of zombies until they fell down. They tried to flesh out the short story with optional objectives that were no fun at all. Simply get this and go here. Usually in zombie games, killing zombies is fun, but the combat was so bad I just wanted to quit the game.
You can meet vacant survivors who are so pointless, you can send them out to scavenge when you're out in missions. There's a risk meter that indicates how likely the survivor is to die. You can give them weapons, they can come back with very little or just die. But I didn't fucking care, I often dismissed them or purposely let them die to get rid of them. The zombies just walk in circles or into walls unto they spot you. If they get close to grab you, you're sucked into the animation were you have to aim a cursor at their head and stab them. They can literally line up one after another like this and constantly grabbing you, it's hilarious how terrible it is. You can stealth kill zombies be creeping up behind them to execute them.
There's a decent selection of weapons and you're able to scavenge for ammo and supplies. You can also store items at your car before missions, there is a limit to the car and how much you can carry, so you want to manage it well. Gas plays a big part here, you're best grabbing canisters whenever you see them. When you get to the car, you're taken to a map and given a choice of three paths to get to your destination. Each way gives you a possible chance of breaking down and forcing you to look for gas, and each way takes a considerable amount of gas. You can also make optional stops to scavenge, it's always good to, but very soon you'll notice these scavenge locations start to repeat. You always know when you're going to make a stop because it's silent when you're on the map, you also know when you're proceeding with the story because Daryl will start to talk with whoever is with him in the story.
It's just a shit game. The trees float, if you look close at them you can see they're not even mapped to the ground. You'll be sneaking around and there'll be no zombies around, but you'll often hear groans as if one is behind you, or a zombie will have spawned out of nowhere and attack you. The best thing to do is to just stay away from this garbage.
If you like The Walking Dead, watch the show or read the comics, play the Telltale game series because it's more better. Wait for Overkill's Walking Dead game if it ever does come out, just don't waste you're time with this.
5.2/10
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