The Walking Dead: A New Frontier - Episode 1-5 (2016) PC

Already in the very title of The Walking Dead: A New Frontier - Episode 1-5 lies important information for players. Telltale is looking for new boundaries, motives and opportunities to develop its story, because two full-fledged seasons of "Walkers" have already said a lot. The search for formulas led to unexpected results – and in the third season we are waiting for almost an action movie.

Walkers on the spot

The main techniques of The Walking Dead: A New Frontier - Episode 1-5 are flashbacks and juxtapositions. Life before the apocalypse is compared here with what it is now – and a detailed analysis of the fall of the heroes can be made into the general leitmotif of the whole season. We begin with the memories of unknown heroes. The ordinary life of a Mexican family is being overtaken by a catastrophe – the death of his father, taking place against the background of a zombie apocalypse. Further – more, and in the end – we rush by van to the rescue point, where we meet the already familiar Clementine. That's where the troubles begin.

The peculiarity of the season is that almost everyone here is a ready–made serial killer, destroying without regret not only zombies, but also everyone who prevents him from surviving. There are only a few good characters left, and even those most often have solid skeletons in the closet.

From the point of view of game mechanics, The Walking Dead: A New Frontier - Episode 1-5 has gained a little. The game still rests on three whales:

1. Long and important dialogues with many possible answers.
2. The quest part with walking around locations and searching for items.
3. Simple puzzles for formal logic.

In some places, detective work is also added, but all this does not particularly update the overall game system.

The Walking Dead: A New Frontier - Episode 1-5 is not a bad season, in general. His trouble is that for the third time, such a presentation no longer catches, and the methods that Telltale began to use are rather from soap operas. More deaths, more personal dramas, more confrontations – all this increases the number of heated situations, but not their quality. Something needs to change in the "Walkers" formula, and it's obvious that Tel