The walking dead season two choppy series#
The undead in the game are as slow as they are in the series and books, with very few unpredictable quirks. Overkill’s The Waking Dead instead falls back on an obvious, but no less effective solution: making them a major threat in groups. There’s a predictability to the way zombies behave that inspires developers to try and even the odds by upping their speed, health or giving them decidedly un-zombie-like powers. Creating terrifying enemies is part of this, but we’ve gotten desensitised to the concept of zombies as monsters from decades of pop culture and games. Of course, the game needs to maintain this oppressing feeling of always being outnumbered, under-equipped and barely making it through. A failed mission that you spend over half an hour playing rewards very little XP. That said, character progression felt very stingy in the beta. I am sure that with enough unlocks and upgrades, things will be more forgiving. Some games felt more frustrating than satisfying, so balance certainly needs a bit of work. If we hadn’t lost any players to the horde, most of us were out of healing items, nearly out of ammo, and almost always on the last bar or two of health. In the few rounds I played of the first mission, the win was always costly, bordering on pyrrhic. Getting proficient enough with melee weapons, managing stamina and knowing when to shove and when to swing is one of the first things you’ll have to learn in Overkill’s The Walking Dead. You’re never going to have enough ammo to hold them all off, which is why the game tries to teach you to rely on melee combat in the early, more relaxed horde attacks. These help flood the area with all kinds of zombies - enough that it prevents any spot from becoming completely safe. The game makes smart use of monster closets - smaller, less distinct spawn rooms that play a bigger role in later waves. If you thought having limited resources was restricting, waves three and four are where things really become terrifying. Things start off slow with enough breathing room between attacks to allow defenders to resupply, but they quickly get out of hand as later waves start to hit all points simultaneously. You can only carry one set of these at a time, and the constant trips back and forth to replenish planks and your collection of crafting materials and ammo make up a major part of gameplay as a defender.
You do this using wooden planks collected in the pre-action phase. Your first order of business is to contain the flood of zombies, enough that you can repair the gate and later divert your attention to a different one. Holding off the horde are gates at each point, which fall quickly as soon as the undead show up. The first starts off as a simple defence mission where you’re tasked with keeping an eye on three access points. The two missions featured in the beta do a great job of demonstrating the sort of experience Overkill is going for. In a lot of ways, it’s an evolution of many Payday and Payday 2 systems. Overkill’s The Walking Dead is a tactical zombie survival game. After spending a few hours with the beta, I can see why it was hard to show it off in trailers. It seemed like a game releasing five years too late, but I remained optimistic given its developer’s pedigree. I’ll be the first to admit that Overkill’s The Walking Dead didn’t look particularly interesting in initial footage. This is why I feel now is the best time for interesting works involving zombies to emerge, because people are willing to experiment with the formula.
The walking dead season two choppy tv#
The Walking Dead TV series has turned into a shambling, rotten corpse of a thing, and considering how many Walking Dead fans didn’t start with the comics, I’d say the show’s declining viewership is another indication that it’s over. Their time in video games is well past its prime, and their place in pop culture has all but vanished. Overkill’s The Walking Dead's game pace and mechanics combine to create a terrifying zombie survival adventure, and a satisfying action game.Įveryone is probably sick of zombies at this point.
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