14 DAY TRIAL // Within the first hour of The Walking Dead video game, my character has slipped on human blood two times, which, in my view, is a bad sign for the coming zombie-based adventures that will involve Lee Everet and Clementine.
Telltale Games has managed to get access to The Walking Dead rights, which have already spawned a very solid television series in addition to the core comic book, and they appear to have created a solid modern adventure game around it, complete with multiple-choice dialogues, some rather frantic action sequences and a few plot twists.
The developers have adopted a very simple hand-drawn style for The Walking Dead, which is well suited to the zombie apocalypse theme, although the game engine sometimes stutters, especially when a large number of enemies are present on screen at the same time.
But the core of the experience so far is not that of a survival horror in the vein of Resident Evil but that of a good old adventure in the Telltale Games manner, something that sits very close to the old Sam & Max revival, if one puts the apocalypse theme out of his mind.
I am still in the early hours of The Walking Dead, but I already have some problems with the pace of the plot, which seems too slow for a solid zombie experience and the two human characters I have so far encountered seem far too quick to come together and cooperate given the circumstances.
I play the game on the PC and the control scheme has also been a little unwieldy, especially when the mouse and keys need to be used at the same time, but, to my surprise, the action sequences were pretty engaging and quick.
Take a look at the video attached to this article to get a taste of the conversation system in The Walking Dead and a quick glimpse of how the action unfolds.