Recent reviews by SgtMajor

Never buy a Ubisoft game on Steam. You don't get to play on Steam servers, it's a convoluted patchwork where you actually play on the Ubisoft server and not Steam. "So what" you might ask? The problem is big problems with authentication of the game and lots of times you can't play. That happened to me and now I can't play it at all.

Them game itself is good. The story is not great but good graphics and a big wide sandbox to travel around in shooting bad guys. There are also lots of side missions and even a Texas Hold'em poker game that's fun.
Just don't buy on Steam.

The game gets a marginal thumps up due to the game mechanics. When compared to Season 1, there seemed to be less player driven scenes with things to do and more story scenes where you watch the action unfold, which made is more like an animated comic than a game. There were no challenging puzzles, Season 1 had more of those and some were difficult for me. For example, in Season 1, I had to go to a walkthrough game guide to get passed the part in the farmhouse with the cannibal mother in the thunderstorm. She kept shooting me dead until I got the hint on how to advance up to her. There was nothing that hard in Season 2. The story was more linear than in Season 1 as well. I played though a couple of parts with different decisions and it seemed to make little difference in the final outcome unlike Season 1 where some characters were lost and it did make a difference. The controls continue to be fairly unresponsive, it shows all too well this is a console port and they give little thought to the PC user.

The story itself was a worthy sequel to Season 1 and it fits in well with the Walking Dead franchise. Everyone who finished Season 1 were waiting to see what happened to Clem. The story is all about her, and she drives the game. One criticism was the ending. It just sort of stopped without being in a climax. There was a huge climax in Season 1 but the story in Season 2 ended in a flat sort of way. It was not even a real cliff hanger, and it felt lazy.

The voice acting is terrific like in the first game, Clem is outstanding, and the rest of the cast is top notch. This story is brutal, they don't pull many punches. Get ready for heartache and to get your feelings crushed. When you start to like someone watch out they might not be around for very long.

If you thought a zombie apocalypse might not be so bad and you could get though it without much trouble, think again. This is no place for normal human being. That is the take home lesson from the game. When things get tough, people are not nice. It is hard to live in a world where all that you know and like gets taken away. Enjoy modern day comforts, because when the s*** hits the fan, things turn real bad in a big hurry.