The Walking Dead – The Game – Episode 4 Around Every Corner

January 19, 2015 / Detached / Leave a comment

Hey Everyone,

We kick things off this week with a review on Episode 4 of the Walking Dead Game. Around Every Corner brings a suspense to the game like no other, and sets up some amazing plot points. This in turn made the anxiousness of finding out what happens in Episode 5 even worse.

Episode 4 picks up up right after the end of Episode 3 as you find yourself and the rest of the survivors in Savannah, ready to make way for the river to escape. As always this episode is packed full of surprises that keep you guessing as to what will be around the next corner.

I love that all the episodes have kicked off with a foundation goal that always helps drive the story, but also gets more complicated as the chapters come through. Episode 4 is a bit different in this case as you leave off with a big question mark in Episode 3, it’s a mysterious voice that comes over the walkie talkie you are carrying…Oddly, this voice on the other end of the walkie wasn’t the main focus of Episode 4.

The Walking Dead has been a ton of fun to play but something is different with Episode 4 as well…. though you are still playing as Lee, and building relationships with the others and taking care of Clementine…..There are more zombies than ever, and the game puts us behind Lee’s gun in a first-person perspective. The choices that came along with that perspective really set a new tone for the game but again it feels different, like something changed that made it less emotional than the other episodes.

One of the major things that pulled the emotions out of this episode were the new cast members. The new cast members don’t seem to have as deep of a background and story building plot as the original crew. This episode still has some very epic challenges and big decisions you have to make, but they lacked that “Spiz-az” of the first few episodes I’ve played so far. As always, the vocal performances are amazing, and the comic book style artistic flare they use is mind blowing.

I may not have felt as connected to the story this time around, but the story overall was still very engaging and game play was still awesome as always. The true test of this game has been the story line and plot building as it keeps you waiting for that next moment to happen, and holds you just at the right moment.

Overall, Episode 4 has been my least favorite of the bunch so far as it didn’t have that big “WOW” factor to it. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t an awesome episode, or that the story lacked, no, just the opposite, it’s bigger than ever. Just like a big plot in a movie, or a massive book you will always find something you don’t like….but the good in this game dominates the bad by a long shot. I can’t wait to play the big Finale of this chapter of the game and finish up so I can move on to Season 2.

Until next time, I bid you a fine farewell readers!

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The Walking Dead – The Game – Episode 3 The Long Road Ahead

December 29, 2014September 10, 2015 / Detached / Leave a comment

The more I play The Walking Dead, the more I feel like being the bad guy at times…. When I started episode one, I felt like I needed to make all the good choices and be that stand-up guy for Clementine. Starting episode two made you question whether Lee was going to be that good guy, or the protector and survivor he needed to be. Now, after finishing episode three and looking back at my choices, it really makes you question if you did the right thing, or did you make the best survivors judgement call in the split second of time they give you to mash that choice button? Faced with the toughest decisions to date, there was no question over how a choice would make Lee look or how that choice would affect the group. This episode was so fast paced and when something happened, I personally felt a knee jerk reaction and you make that split second choice. This is what I love about the game the most is the way it pulls the emotions into things….the situations almost bring the survivor out of you at times.

I’m a huge Walking Dead fan if you haven’t caught on yet… I love the show, the comics, the story, and overall premise of what The Walking Dead is. The parallel between watching Rick Grimes – The main protagonist of the AMC original TV series evolves as does he evolve with each new comic, I personally get to see an ever evolving Lee Everett in the game.

The Long Road Ahead is the third out of five series in the game that have been released and best way I can describe this episode is “A roller coaster going a hundred miles an hour and no ones watching the controls” Our small group get’s to see some of the most screwed up, emotional twisted moments to date in game. This episode brings in a situation with the bandits who have nowhere else to turn now that the dairy farm is out of commission, as well as Kenny and Lilly who are still at odds, and to top everything off…..there’s a thief in the midst your little group now.

By this point, it’s safe to assume you’ve gotten really connected with these characters now and have learned a ton about them and who they really are….and probably even have some favorites that you tend to lean towards more than others. So, when the season-defining choices appear on screen, there’s an emotional roller coaster at times that come for us players and the characters we’ve grown fond of.

Since episode one, this game and the characters in it create a very unique emotional relationship that brings the games context to a deeper level. This episode really brings together Lee and Kenny’s relationship and you begin to see how important trust is in this game. You also understand how important protection, and grasp the idea of who has your back and who doesn’t.

As always, this episode looks amazing with its comic-style, and the voice acting is above and beyond amazing! These two aspects of the game really bring you into the game and you just get completely lost in the story. One great portion of this episode that brings such rich satisfaction to the story is the side adventure stories you are challenged with which becomes a huge plot of the story unlike the previous episodes. This episode in my book has been one of the best to date, but I’m not done with the game yet and so far this has overall been on of the best games I’ve played all year.

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The Walking Dead – The Game – Episode 2 Starved for Help Review

November 24, 2014November 24, 2014 / Detached / Leave a comment

The second of my five episode review, Starved for Help picks up three months after the zombie apocalypse erupted. You are still playing as Lee trying to protect Clementine, and now dealing with a group of survivors and trying to make the best of a dump motel you’ve tried turning into a secured fort. This is where the game has gotten really interesting because the choices you make help build relationships and can also destroy relationships. Every choice you make caries over into a new episode of the game you play, so all those choices you made in episode one you now have to live with in Starved for Help.

This game doesn’t give you a second chance or to take back your choices to someone, so when your dialogue windows pop up it gives you just a few seconds to choose, and those choices could bring you closer to a friend or even create a new enemy in a later episode.

This episode is the first time you get to see the choices you made in the previous episodes. Everything from your relationship with Clementine, to the new found friendship with Kenny. This also means that you have some remembering to do… did you tell any lies in the previous episode, were you truthful, who did you be-friend and who did you make an enemy out of. All of these choices set Lee and his group up for a very suspenseful and action packed 2nd episode.

Starved for Help opens with the most gruesome scene to date in the game in my opinion, but besides the blood and guts it is becoming a really big challenge to keep your cool and look out for the group. You have become a leader in the group and you have to make the tough decisions at times, and you get thrown right into the middle of your group’s nearly out of food, so it’s up to you to decide who gets to eat and who doesn’t. Will you pick your friends, will you take the high ground and do whats best for the group, what will you do? That draw back you might have going with the emotion thing really comes into picture when a new group of survivors from the St. John’s Dairy Farm show up and invite your group to come over and trade gas for food. The family asks Lee all sorts of questions about the group, but something isn’t quite right with them. Do you take the chance and go with these strangers who say they have food, or do you chance it and stay at the motel and hope you all can survive.

Episode 2 is full of cliffhanger moments, sketchy choices you have to make, new chances to redeem yourself, and even be-friend some new people. It’s suspensful, emotional, full of blood and guts, and it even has some WTF moments in it that really make you turn your head and ask yourself what the heck just happened….but I’m not going to spoil those moments for you as you will just have to check the game our for yourself.

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Smite Thee – My Thoughts on a Refreshing Game

October 24, 2014October 24, 2014 / Detached / 2 Comments

A couple weeks ago I stumbled upon Smite, a Free to Play MOBA that brings a breath of fresh air to gaming for me. Smite was released in March of this year, and honestly it’s been a great spin to gaming as It’s a 3rd person view on your character which I’ve never been a big fan of but something was much different with this game. The mechanics and game play created something that caught my attention and held it. Smite’s features and different modes really help a new player get engaged with the game play style and it was so easy to pick up on the style of play.

Here’s the part that really drew me to the game and held my attention, Smite builds it’s character base off of mythological backgrounds and incorporates those lines into an MOBA play style. Almost instantly after pulling up the main menu…you are dropped into the world of mythological madness. You get to choose the character and line you want to play… For instance, Zeus, the lightning bolt flinging god and father of Thor… yes he is one of the god’s you can choose. The variety of characters you can pick from was very extensive…I think overall they have a total of 70 plus characters and the models themselves are extremely detailed!

The overall game is very fast paced but also strategy based, meaning that it really regulates you to play with a team, but if your a solo charging into battle maniac, then you will love the game as well. The first reaction I had when first seeing the game is wow this is a 3rd person RPG game. The mechanics of this MOBA game though are very engaging and it feels natural to play. Just a couple of down sides to the game that didn’t set well with me though…The combat of the game is so varied depending on what class you have chosen that the battle field can get a bit confusing at times if your not paying close attention. It’s easy to lose your way in what needs to be done in the objective, and my last knock on the game is the 3rd person view really hinders your ability to navigate the maps…and it becomes quite the task to track enemy’s down. But overall this game has been a blast to play and a refreshing look on a good old classic style of MOBA play.