Missed connectionsĪn otherwise pretty decent game is completely let down by how it handles players, connections, and matchmaking. It's such a shame that I'm about to tell you about everything that's broken. Or when a loudspeaker playing jazz shatters the silence and everyone sprints to turn it off, turn it off! Moments straight out of the TV show play out organically, such as when teammates hack their way into a hoard to rescue a friend, or as the seconds tick down toward rescue and everyone is out of ammo. It’s in these moments where The Walking Dead is at its best. Some missions involve full-blown puzzles, where team members need to read out code sequences while others type them in to far-away consoles-all while everyone pops zombies in the noggin. In those games, heists start out quiet until an alarm gets triggered and the only way to get out alive is to go loud.Įvery mission includes some sort of classic post-apocalypse maintenance problem: an old security door needs batteries and jumper cables to power up, or a forklift needs fuel to lift a barrier out of the way. Structurally, this makes the game very similar to Overkill's previous co-op shooters, Payday and Payday 2. Every mission in The Walking Dead is a stealth mission, at least at the beginning. Nothing floods the streets with zombies faster than a loud bang or a jukebox firing up a Queen track. The greatest enemy in The Walking Dead-besides, you know, the walking dead-is noise. Overkill is pushing patches and fixes almost daily, but mission-breaking bugs and server communication problems are still wrecking the love I want to feel for this game. Unfortunately, this rendition of The Walking Dead does a lot of things wrong and, for many reasons, isn't worth your time or money right now. Everything great about the game comes from Overkill's devotion to the source material and to zombie horror in general. Overkill's long-awaited co-op shooter, The Walking Dead, gets the awful horror of slow zombies just right.
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