The Walking Dead Video Game Review

By:  Megan Gotch @TheNerdyGirlie

When my gamer brother came for Christmas he began playing The Walking Dead video game on the Xbox.  I was busy with all the Christmas festivities to be able to watch any of it, but I did HEAR a lot of it!  LOTS of bad words and I pretty much complained ongoing that it wasn’t a very Christmas-y spirit game.  Of course he protested and kept right on playing.  It wasn’t until the eve of Christmas that Steam put the game up for only $10 and my husband jumped at the chance to buy it.  After the holiday rush settled down, I began to play on his iMac.  The very first ten minutes I got stuck and ALMOST gave up, that is NOOB talk!  But I FINALLY figured it out, after dying a few times, and I never looked back!

This was THE PERFECT game to get this NOOB player into “real” gaming.  The Walking Dead is pretty much a choose your own adventure game.  Throughout the five episodes you are given multiple decisions that need to be made.  Your choices determine where the game will go.  I don’t want to give away any spoilers, but there are some TOUGH decisions.  A lot of them involving children.  I stayed pretty removed from the game, since I knew tough stuff was going to come up and decided to be “the nice guy” throughout all my decision making.  As nice as I could be anyways.  It would be fun to go back and play again, making all the opposite decisions!

I would LOVE to hear from all of you who have played the game, how it was different for you or what was the same.  This was such a fun and easy play.  I would totally recommend it to a non-gamer girls/guys or a gamer geek.  If you love the show The Walking Dead like I do, this game will have you hooked!

4 out of 5 stars