It’s utterly insipid and brainless with your attackers standing in place and being barely capable of reacting to your actions, which is the case even on the highest difficulties. To call Overkill’s The Walking Dead’s human combat robotic would be a disservice to J.A.R.V.I.S. The majority of your time during OTWD’s story will be spent creeping around grey, suitably grim areas and looking for an objective, though it does occasionally spice things up with some woefully implemented siege missions that shine a less than positive light on the game’s human AI.

Overkill’s The Walking Dead does its best to try and foster teamwork by throwing puzzles at players during missions, which are usually just a case of finding switches and fuses or figuring out a combination. Most weapons can come equipped with silencers but their uses are finite, meaning that you have to thinking tactically, lest you face the wrath of the walkers and also your teammates as they hammer “noooo” into the game’s archaic text chat. This creates constant tension that begs you not to panic unloading with firearms will often make your chances of survival slimmer, not greater. zombie (PVZ, if you will) side of things: the more noise you make, the more Walkers you attract. To its credit, OTWD is ingenious in how it handles the player vs. That they lack variety in appearance is a bit of a wasted opportunity, however: who knew there was such a generic bald person pride movement going on in Washington? As someone who consumes zombie media as mindlessly as the walking cadavers themselves, this was not an issue for me as I enjoyed creating walls of death with my teammates as we valiantly knocked back the hordes. Most of your time with OTWD will be spent caving in heads of Walkers, which may mean that you need to do some hand exercises to negate cramp - you will be clicking a lot. Comparisons to Valve’s mistreated franchise feel inescapable, but OTWD really has more in keeping with something like Vermintide or Dead Island, the latter more so because of how cobbled together it feels at launch. There’s nothing revolutionary here, but there should be enough to satiate The Walking Dead fans or anyone wanting their Left 4 Dead fix. It’s a shame, because Overkill’s The Walking Dead can actually be quite fun (in short bursts) and surprisingly deep at times. At this point in time, it’s like playing a proof of concept over the thing you’re paying a premium for on day one, a skeleton to be beefed up and fixed with future updates. Overkill’s The Walking Dead is a $60 game, but it never feels like it’s worth more than half of that, owing to the fact that it still feels half-finished on almost every level despite being in the works for four years. The earliest red flag for Overkill’s The Walking Dead is perhaps the most telling: there is no option for in-game voice chat, which is just as absurd a decision as it sounds for a game that prides itself on being a teamwork-focused and uncompromising affair. As a squad-based co-op shooter, you must work with your teammates to deal with Walkers, take down human opponents, and find far too many fuses. Truthfully, it might have been better calling it quits there.Īn adaptation of the AMC show, Overkill’s The Walking Dead shares the same universe but is instead situated in Washington instead of Georgia, which thankfully means 90% less walking around forests. That mystery was the running theme for the majority of the time’s game in development, it barely shown before it reanimated earlier this year with some fantastic CG trailers to introduce its characters.

It’s been a long time since Overkill’s The Walking Dead was first announced with a cryptic teaser that revealed nothing, save for the fact that the Payday developers were branching out.

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