Game review: The Walking Dead: A New Day

ZOMBIES are a perennial favourite in gaming, and now Telltale Games has linked up with Robert Kirkman’s excellent comic-turned-TV series The Walking Dead.

By HENRY NORTHMORE

Published 13th May 2012, 01:00 BST

The Walking Dead: A New Day

Telltale Games, PC/PS3/Xbox 360

The first of five episodes (to be released monthly), A New Day introduces us to Lee Everett, a new character caught up in a narrative that runs parallel to the events in the source material.

Running at about two hours, in many ways this is a sophisticated point-and-click game as you interact with your environment. You have to make quick, tough choices, with lasting consequences as you progress further, which adds to the tension, but it’s the quality of writing and characterisation that brings the horror home.