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While, the Walking Dead, the TV show is awesome and well-made. Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, the single-player first-person shooter video game developed by Terminal Reality and published by Activision wasn't. It was a P.O.S. It was a lousy cash-in. This license game really disappointed me. This game is really below average, and its shows. Based on and canon to The Walking Dead television series, in contrast to the video game by Telltale Games, which is based on and canon to the comics. The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct acts as a prequel to the TV series; set in the Georgia countryside and focuses on Daryl Dixon (Voiced by TV regular, Norman Reedus) making his way to find his brother, Merle Dixon (Voiced by Michael Rooker) whom went missing, weeks earlier. The player assumes the role of Daryl Dixon by a first-person perspective who can either fight the walkers or stealthily sneak past them. As he travels, he meets other survivors, who can either help or leave. In my opinion, they are rarely useful or good personalities, they will become more a burden than any good. You can take as many in your group, but just note, that it's better off, to leave them behind. It's get annoying, how much people need help, but rather helps you in this game. The game also supposedly challenge the gamer to be cautious of how much fuel, ammo and food he has, and map out, the best routes by either choose to take the highway, and save fuel but break down a lot, or take the small roads, where he will be able to scavenge from small villages and chance of breaking down is low. Sometimes, you just don't have a choice. The game would choose for you. It's mostly an illusion of free will. You can choice what vehicle save the most gas, but most of the time, it will break down on you, before long. The game is so repetitious with the same levels design and gameplay that it get boring at times. Lots of box-in locations, with doors that don't open, and windows that you can't break. The environments are plain, linear, and tiresome to look at. The enemies AI are really dumb even for Walker zombies standards. The whole idea of this game being a stealth-shoot it up game is funny. You can pass a large horde of Walkers, without being notice, even if you're not being stealth like. It's astounding how easily you can wrestle your way out of a swarm of zombies if you do get catch, using nothing more than a series of QTEs (quick time event). You can hop onto a table or vehicle and mow them down, like grass. There is no challenge. The zombie respawn rates is really annoying. The undead reappear in areas constantly, no matter how many you killed. Remind me of Whac-A-Mole with the repeat kills. For a game that bears the word "survival" in its title, there's nothing really life-threatening. Its way too predictable and you see reused of the 5 total zombie skins, way too often. It's feel like you're killing the same two zombies time after time, again. The game is really easy, even in the hardest game settling. The control are sluggish as hell. You would think the game would had CO-OP, seeing how they promote the game like that, but no. NO cooperative gameplay at all. Nobody gets to play as Meryl Dixon. Meryl Dixon is barely in the game in the first place. The game does have some good. I do like the backstory of Daryl, even if the story has a weak plot. Story telling add nothing new to the Walking Dead lore. The game designers hares his likeness and voice for the game counterpart, and his performance is actually spot. The ending to this game is weak as hell. Game end abruptly, and doesn't tied one bit to the show. There's not much else to say about The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct because there's not much of a game there. The campaign can be finished in 4 or 5 hours flat with the best gamers, and 6 to 7 for the worst. Like I said, it's pretty easy to beat this game. Not a lot of replay value, as the game has nothing to keep us, playing again. Overall: If you want to play a good Zombie game. Play 2012's Telltales: Walking Dead or 2013's Last of Us. Even older games like 2011's Dead Island and 2008's Left for Dead is better than this. If you see this game, don't bother. Don't open, dead inside.

I recently finished this game as i am a large fan of the comic-book ad Show of 'The Walking Dead' and was gravely disappointed by the Overall product of Survival instinct after the Quality of Telltale's adaptions. (Warning -SPOILERS-) The game Begins with you playing as a character who is bitten and is shot by Daryl Dixon and his Uncle themselves. The game then introduces us to one of the worst graphical achievements in recent years, a poorly delivered voice-performance by Norman Reedus and one of the most repetitive and poorly coded combat experiences possible.

In other words; if you're bored and see this for cheap enough; Play it. If you enjoy Quality products with great storytelling; Ignore this game.

Okay, let me get started by stating that I am a huge walking dead fan and as soon as I heard they were releasing a game like this I was excited and even though they didn't show any gameplay before launch I still pre-ordered and paid the full amount. How wrong was I, the game is far too repetitive, some zombies jump at you so you twiddle the left stick and press some buttons to escape, then another zombie does the same thing so you repeat, look on youtube and you'll see what I mean. Also it was quite misleading by stating that you can fight as Daryl along side Merle when in fact you see him basically 3 times and never once does he actually help you in a mission. An extremely disappointing game, it could have been so much more and a huge let down for the fans. If you want a good walking dead game then play the Telltale adaptation, that has a much better story line and gameplay. I'd give this 4/10 not that good at all.

Honestly, this game is too hard, and because of that, most people dislike it. But when you look at the story and game play, this is actually the game I was hoping for. The difficulty presents a challenge that most games don't have, and that makes beating a level feel much more rewarding, and the game also shows some details that, albeit were unnecessary, were cool to learn. For example, when Scout leaves you to go be with her father, she throws you a red handkerchief, which Daryl has hanging out of his back pocket in some episodes. (Example - This Sorrowful Life) All in all, this is a very good game, but it isn't a game where you can just run in shooting and expect to survive, you have to be stealthy. So if you're a fan of fast paced games, you won't like this, but if you're a fan of slow paced games, I recommend that you play this game. It won't disappoint you.