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Essays 01 September 2022, 15:40

author: Darius Matusiak

The Walking Dead – Season One. Games to emotionally shatter you

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Genre: adventure game

Developer: Telltale Games

Release date: April 24, 2012

The peak of popularity of zombie movies and games a few years ago went some way to show that the real problem during a zombie apocalypse will not be hordes of the undead, but other people. In a world of lawlessness and in the face of disappearance of all moral standards, the dormant, lowest instincts and filthiest qualities of men prevail. This is what the adventure game The Walking Dead by Telltale Games is focused on. Instead of mowing down hundreds of zombies, the focus here is on human motives and interactions, noble and vile deeds, and the question of is worth trusting.

The game presents various decisions, and although their importance is not so great in the long run, each such choice carries a huge dose of emotions. Even if the effect is predictable or has no bearing on further events, it's all about the feelings we get at the time of making these decisions. The creators did a splendid job, because the choices in The Walking Dead really boil down to our own feelings towards a given person, and to what we'd like to achieve ourselves. And then we have the most painful, saddest ending in the history of games – a truly unforgettable moment.

  1. The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series in our encyclopedia

Darius Matusiak

Darius Matusiak

Graduate of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Journalism. He started writing about games in 2013 on his blog on gameplay.pl, from where he quickly moved to the Reviews and Editorials department of Gamepressure. Sometimes he also writes about movies and technology. A gamer since the heyday of Amiga. Always a fan of races, realistic simulators and military shooters, as well as games with an engaging plot or exceptional artistic style. In his free time, he teaches how to fly in modern combat fighter simulators on his own page called Szkola Latania. A huge fan of arranging his workstation in the "minimal desk setup" style, hardware novelties and cats.

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