Review | Game review: The Walking Dead: A New Frontier is full of the same old zombie clichés
The latest instalment in The Walking Dead game franchise is a gore bore, mired in the been-there, done-that horror, blood and torture staples of the zombie package
Telltale Games
2.5 stars
I’ve all but given up on The Walking Dead TV show. As a big zombie fan, I’ve sat through seven years of it, only to be served the same formula every season: survivors find shelter, hammy bad guy threatens existence, massive battle ensues, zombies break through and overrun, survivors flee to new shelter.
This lack of creativity isn’t limited to the small screen – it has knock-on effects, as seen in this A New Frontier spin-off game (for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, and iOS).
Developer Telltale’s first two “seasons” weren’t exactly exceptional, but they offered story-based entertainment sorely lacking within that period of games. The influence rubbed off, though, and the past few years of video gaming have witnessed something of a narrative renaissance. So as the innovator, the trendsetter, how do you top that? You don’t. You just load things up with the same-old, toss in some flashbacks and riddle it all with zombie clichés.