A New Frontier is the third season of Telltale's Walking Dead series. It's continues the story of the previous two seasons and the first two episodes came out at the very end of 2016.
Season two's finale gave you a very big choice, I was eagerly awaiting the third season to see the impact of my decision. I was left bemused at first. We were introduced to a whole new character and not an immediate follow up to the previous series. I was very disappointed to see the game fast forward the story from my last decision, leaving me to think whatever I chose would give me the same story. A feeling I've had a lot with Telltale's so called "tailored to your choices" tagline. That being said, they've made plenty of stellar games.
The story starts with new characters, Javi and his family. For the first time in the series, the story starts at the beginning of the outbreak. We see Javi deal with the beginning firsthand and seeing it devastate his family. Javi has a lot of tension with brother whom he always seems to disapoint. The story fast forwards to the present, Javi, his brother's wife, Kate and his nephews, Gabe and Mariana have been travelling the roads together in their minivan and have been on the road for the majority of the outbreak. During the story, Javi crosses paths with our friend Clementine, (our previous protagonist) and we find out what actually happened after our final choice from season two. We learn there's a group of survivors called The New Frontier, Javi gets in a feud with them and must get him and his family safely out of their crosshairs.
The graphics are updated, they still have the comic book look, but looks much sharper. Once again we have a story that hooks you and makes you think carefully about every choice you're given. The new characters are likeable, some not so much, but that's because they're doing their job of making you dislike them and not because they are poor characters. The voice acting is excellent and shows why this is one of Telltale's strongest series.
There was one relationship they really forced you into during the story, I rebuffed every advance and even after all that, I still pissed off someone, despite doing the complete opposite of what another character thought just because of how much they forced it. It really annoyed me, I had to pay the consequences for something I never chose to do. There was another part where I was given an ultimatum, it was practically a choice of getting attacked or not, I quite clearly chose to not get attacked, and even so, another character disregarded my choice, thus I got attacked. These two 'consequences' came from choices I did NOT make, so why they happened is beyond me. This is what continues to lead me to believe you aren't given as much choice as you're constantly told. If they didn't push so hard that your decisions matter, I wouldn't get so frustrated by it.
I really enjoyed the season three, it was great to introduce a new character and keep the story going with the old ones. Overall I do think the three season are declining as they go on, but this is still a great season, don't forget how amazing the first was. Javi was definitely one of my favourite characters across the series. I really cared about his story and made choices I thought he'd make. He was a great character to take charge of.
This had once again been a great season, the next season has been announced and it's also been confirmed as the final season. This is definitely a great decision by Telltale to wrap it up, it's best to bow out in style rather than get stale. More good news is that season three set up to carry on as Clementine. See you for one last adventure Clem.
8/10
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