- #The walking dead a new frontier part 2 professional#
- #The walking dead a new frontier part 2 series#
Walking Dead fans looking to jump back into Clementine's story with this new game should temper their expectations. Clementine's retrospectives are harrowing
#The walking dead a new frontier part 2 series#
This review will follow the series as it develops, with updates as each chapter arrives detailing the current state of the game.
#The walking dead a new frontier part 2 professional#
Most of the player's time will be spent with Javier Garcia, a former professional baseball player accompanying his brother's second wife and her distrustful stepchildren. Clementine, the only permanence in The Walking Dead's fickle and constantly reversible world, returns and is playable, but only in flashbacks.
Players are given a new protagonist and can pour their rage into scenarios where a measured response would still end badly. The first two episodes of The Walking Dead: Season Three - also known by the mouthful of a name The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series - A New Frontier - hew to that model. Here's a link to my review of the first part of last night's premiere.After two seasons of Telltale Games' brilliant interpretation of The Walking Dead, many players have figured out its real game: It's in guessing which choices really do alter the story, and which ones are optional conversations or decisions that still funnel into the narrative the game had in mind all along. I vastly prefer complex characters to the cartoon villain we now have in The Walking Dead. Indeed, these two episodes are far more surprising, interesting and complicated than anything we got in the seventh season of the original show. Jeremiah isn't clearly good or clearly bad like either of his sons, and that's great. I like that Jake and Troy sort of represent the two halves of their father. Will we see zombie Travis down the line? One can only hope. You never know if a character is dead until you see the corpse, and preferably the zombified corpse. His death was confusing and so out of the blue. Then, too, I wasn't certain he was really dead. I really thought we'd have to wait another week to talk about Travis dying. I probably should have written one review for both episodes, but I watched these screeners weeks ago and then completely spaced that AMC was airing both episodes the same night! My mistake. It's a powerful moment, though made less poignant simply because this character has never done anything to endear viewers to her.Īs with part one of the premiere, I thought this second episode was quite good. He doesn't realize the reason for this until she steps out onto the patio table and over the rail, plummeting to her death. He manages to get the patio sliding door open for her, which she finds delightful. Before he leaves he pays a visit to the mother of the bride, who's holed herself up in her hotel room. Meanwhile, back in Mexico Strand is forced out of the hotel after playing doctor and steals a sweet ride. Madison learns of Travis's death, and decides that they'll stay in the Broke Jaw Ranch and make it their home "even if we have to take it over" which seems absurdly implausible, but not a bad choice considering the alternatives. Troy wants to kill Luciana because she's so close to dead (though he just wants to do it because he's a psychotic prick) but Nick tricks him into giving him his gun. Ultimately, Alicia and the others return. He's more Governor than Negan, in other words, and that's refreshing. It's honestly kind of great, because we're not sure if he's a good guy or a bad guy or something in between. Jeremiah isn't the obvious psycho that Troy is.
They're given all these things, of course, but this flicker of menace makes us feel uneasy. When Madison doesn't seem perfectly happy with having just had her son and lover almost killed by Jeremiah's son, he snaps at her, telling her he thought she'd be grateful for the safety and shelter and food he's provided. We learn quickly that Jeremiah is not just a kindly old man. It's Jeremiah Otto, played by Sons of Anarchy long-timer Dayton Callie. Meanwhile, Madison and Nick are taken back to the compound where the lovely and charming Troy realizes his brother is nowhere to be found and makes them wait out side. Apparently keeping watch means wandering off into the dark to get ambushed by zombies, alone and cold. The other survivor, Jake's old friend and Jeremiah's god-daughter, doesn't make it. Luciana is hurt badly, and by the end of the trek needs to be supported between Jake and Alicia. The survivors of the downed chopper make their way back to the Otto ranch.
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