The game is about the Dixon brothers, Darrel and Merle. Having a prequel is actually a pretty neat idea and seeing what some iconic characters were like before they all met up on paper is a great idea.
Man, I so, so wanted to get invested in this story! While The Walking Dead Survival Instinct is in fact based on the TV show. In many ways, Survival Instinct is what most people expected when they heard there was a game based on The Walking Dead: The Game coming out. This is nothing like the games that the people at Telltale and Skybound put out. It may have taken a while, but The Walking Dead Survival Instinct is a game that is actually based on the TV show. The voice acting to be fair is great, but it is severely let down with how basic everything looks. There are jaggy edges all over the place and walkers flat out disappear in front of your eyes! It comes across as if the game was rushed to get it out at a certain date. Everything has a rushed and low budget feel to it. The presentation in The Walking Dead Survival Instinct is very poor, even on the highest settings this is not a pretty game. Here you can deal with walkers all the while picking up a ton of gas from the million gas cans that are laying around for some reason. If you run out of fuel the game will load up what for a lack of a better term is a side level. A shorter route will use less fuel, but there will be a higher chance of breaking down. Some ways will take longer and use more gas, but there will be more chance to scavenge for supplies. Before a level, you need to pick which way you are going to drive. One thing that I think they were onto a good idea with was how you travel in the game. This again is a good idea, but it is rather poorly executed as you are never really that stuck for supplies. You can have people come with you and you can send them out to look for supplies while you are worrying about the main mission. Also, you can jump on a car, wait for the zombies to come to you and kill them one at a time as there is no way they can grab you! This is just poor game design and spoils what could have been a tense first person game.Īs well as the main story, you can also talk to NPC’s who will give you more missions to do. You would think that this would force you to play the game in a more stealth manner, but the game is poorly designed so it is not necessary.įor example, you can just run straight to the objective and ignore like 90 percent of the walkers in a level. The game is clever in that like the show ammo is scarce and gun noises will attract the dead. You play as Darrel (co-op is a missed opportunity!) and you need to get through each area without dying. This is a bare-bones first person shooter game. Darrel in particular sounds just like the Darrel that we all love on TV.
Both Darrel and Merle are voiced by their respective actors so that is awesome.
The game is actually a prequel to the first season and sees Darrel and Merle try and make their way in a world full of walkers. The Walking Dead Survival Instinct is based on the TV show so that right there is cool.