Similar to the previous season, The Walking Dead: Season Two is a point-and-click adventure game. The player, in control of Clementine, can direct the character around the environment, examine and interact with various scenery elements and collect and use objects to advance the story. The player can also initiate conversations with non-player characters via conversation trees. Certain replies from other characters may offer the player multiple choices to select from, including the option to stay silent, with a limited amount of time to make the selection; if the player does not select an option, the conversation will continue as if they had stayed quiet. Such choices can affect how the other characters will later react to Clementine which can influence later events in the story. Other scenes are more action-oriented, requiring the player to complete quick time events to avoid Clementine or her allies from getting killed. If the player fails these events, the game will restart at the start of such scenes. Such action scenes may also require the player to make a key decision within a limited time frame, such as which of two characters to save from attacking walkers.
You are Clementine, a young survivor in a world gone to hell. The dead have risen to feast on the living, and the living cannot be trusted.
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | Core 2 Duo 2GHz or equivalent | Core 2 Duo 2.3 Ghz or equivalent |
| RAM | 3 GB RAM | 4 GB RAM |
| OS | Windows XP Service Pack 3 | Windows 7 |
| Graphics Card | ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM | ATI or NVidia card w/ 1024 MB RAM |
| Direct X | 9.0c | 9.0c |
| SOUND CARD | Direct X 9.0c sound device | Direct X 9.0c sound device |
| HDD Space | 2 GB available space | 2 GB available space |
| Game Analysis | 0 | |
A really great story with plenty of amazing choices you can make along the way
A solid, very good game that’s’ an emotional roller coaster as any TWD game should be. It’s hard to get into after the emotional ending of TWD season 1, but the emotional payoff after a while is totally worth it. The pacing is excellent, though the novelty of the experience is a little lost having played through season 1. My ending felt unsatisfying, but I’m not surprised how it turned out based on my own personality and the world of this game. Guess that’s how you can tell it’s successful.
Ok, so after all of it is done I want to change the review quite a bit.
I now regret preordering the series and supporting the project and am sure to NOT buy the next installation which is sure to come. As with most things the rule “the first part is always the best” works 100% for this one.
The first game hooked me up with incredible variation of settings, story and twists. This part doesn’t have that. For the most part it’s actually boring, it falls back on the “OMG emotions”, but kinda fails to inspire any. Contrary to the first game, it has less interesting choices (or rather doesn’t even pretend that your choices even matter). Most of the “conflicts” in the game are dumb, characters barely likable (except for the main protagonist of course), it seems like the writing for this one was done not out of inspiration, but mainly out of “we_need_to_hit_them_deadlines”. And well, in a story-based game with barely no gameplay – bad writing is a no-go.
Overall, if we consider the first game 10/10, this one is 7. And I would prefer I’ve never played it just because it ruined the good name of Walking Dead (the game) for me.