The more I play The Walking Dead: The Game, the more I feel my humanity slip away. When I started episode one, I decided to make all the "good" choices and be a role model for Clementine. When episode two came around, I wrote about the greater good and said "It's time to decide if Lee's going to be an upstanding person or a cold-hearted survivor." Now, with Episode Three: Long Road Ahead behind me, I can see how foolish all that talk was. Faced with the toughest Walking Dead decisions to date, there was no debate over how a choice would make protagonist Lee Everett look or affect the group. Something happened, and I reacted. Me. Not Lee.
The third of five episodes (a new one is released about every two months), The Walking Dead: The Game -- Episode 3: Long Road Ahead is best described as a series of peaks and valleys. As Lee, we see our group through some seriously screwed up and emotional moments, as well as a whole bunch of conversations and light gameplay problem solving with the third-person adventure control scheme. The bandits have nowhere else to turn now that the dairy farm is out of commission, Kenny and Lilly are still at odds, and there's a thief in our midst.
It might not sound like the most amazing pace, but it works incredibly well. By this point, it's safe to assume you've polished off episodes one and two, so you know these characters and have feelings for them -- one way or the other. So, when the season-defining choices appear in Long Road Ahead, there's an emotional aftermath for us as players. When the cast was on the other side of one of the game's big moments, I wanted to wander around and see what they were going through, to talk about what the hell just happened.
That's a true testament to the story developer Telltale Games delivers. Since episode one, the team has talked about your choices creating your game on a relationship level, but there's an emotional context to all of this, too. Sure, Kenny will still give me crap for siding with Lilly back in the meat locker, but I love the guy as he's always had my back. Maybe you don't because of a choice or fight you had with him, but I do. In my playthrough, these guys are bros.
If there's any deviation from what you've known about the game up until this point, it's that Long Road Ahead is perhaps the most "adventurey" episode so far. It uses the downtime before and after reality-shattering moments to have you bum around environments trying to figure out how to get from here to there or how to make something work with the objects in your inventory. These aren't challenging puzzles, but the tasks work well to counterbalance those peaks I was talking about -- these lulls are perfectly paced to give you a reason to talk to your fellow survivors and not immediately be on to the next event.
08/2012: RELEASE.DATE .. PROTECTION: Steam 1: DISC(S) .. GAME.TYPE: Adventure The living will have to survive amongst the dead in this game based on The Walking Dead, the widely acclaimed comic book series and television series Across five dark and emotional episodes of gameplay, every decision and action you take can result in the entire story of the game changing around you Based on Robert Kirkman's Eisner-Award winning comic book series, The Walking Dead allows gamers to experience the true horror of the zombie apocalypse A tailored game experience -- Live with the profound and lasting consequences of the decisions that you make in each episode. Your actions and choices will affect how your story plays out across the entire series Experience events that connect to the Walking Dead saga. Meet people and visit locations that foreshadow the story of Deputy Sheriff Rick Grimes Meet Glenn before he heads to Atlanta, explore Hershel's farm before Rick and his group of survivors arrive and before the barn becomes a notorious location in Walking Dead lore You'll be forced to make decisions that are not only difficult, but that will require you to make an almost immediate choice. There's no time to ponder when the undead are pounding the door down! 1. Unrar 2. Burn or mount the image 3. Install the game 4. Copy the content from /Crack directory on the DVD to the <install> directory of the game. We recommend firewalling all game exes as well 5. Play the game 6. Support the software developers. If you like this game, BUY IT!
DOWNLOAD LINK: Click Here For DownloadSystem requirements:Operating system: Windows XP / Vista / 7 Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz √ Memory: 3 GB Hard drive space: 2 GB Sound device: compatible with DirectX 9.0 Video: with 512 MB video memory
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