OVERKILL's The Walking Dead

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5.2

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  1. ireviewbadgames
    Nov 7, 2018
    3
    Update: Fanboys with buyer's remorse and shills might be able to spam Metacritic (Really, this game is a 10/10 perfect game for all of you? How interesting.) But it's harder to fake Steam reviews. Go check that out instead.

    I'll start with some positives: the game looks impressive on the surface and has a solid franchise to stand upon. While the Walking Dead television show is a boring    Update: Fanboys with buyer's remorse and shills might be able to spam Metacritic (Really, this game is a 10/10 perfect game for all of you? How interesting.) But it's harder to fake Steam reviews. Go check that out instead.

    I'll start with some positives: the game looks impressive on the surface and has a solid franchise to stand upon. While the Walking Dead television show is a boring trainwreck built on the suburban couple's over investment and stubbornness to break a bad habit, "Overkill's The Walking Dead" is primarily based on the comics, which still hold a glimmer of hope.

    The game is bland, boring and repetitive. The camp system is a bust and not at all interesting. (Think Payday safehouse level of uninteresting) There isn't enough variety, the talent/skill trees all end up the same eventually and they need to balance weapons: all these symptoms add up to one diagnosis- the game is severely over-priced and needs some serious polish. At it's current state, it's a $35~ game, and yes, even with the "season 2" missions planned. But all of that is obvious, I want to touch upon points that other people might not talk about.

    The worst part about "Overkill's The Walking Dead" is seeing incredibly obvious mistakes that the developers shouldn't be making at this stage in their career. These are the folks that made Payday- they already have understand the basic framework, but still make blunders like not having proper voice communication settings. In the beta, it was constant open-mic, no choice on the matter. Now, it's tied to your steam settings. . . If this was their first game and they were some two-man indie company, that wouldn't be an issue, but these guys have been at it for years. It would be like if Blizzard just up and decided not to include a screen resolution setting.

    Another minor mistake is that there can be multiple copies of characters in a game where that obviously doesn't work. You can have three Grants or Maya Twins- had these been faceless schmucks without deep background lore or personality, it would have been fine, but this isn't that kind of game. Again, these devs made Payday. The kicker? Payday already HAS a system, in which no two players can be the same character. I have to assume that Overkill simply didn't have time to implement the system or some similar excuse.

    Experiencing "Overkill's The Walking Dead" is like being a professor and watching your student fail the same course two semesters in a row. (three semesters if you count that God-awful RAID game) You keep hoping that they'll learn from the previous time, but they just don't and there's not much you can do except sigh and shake your head in quiet disappointment. Refund the game if you can and if you can't resist, wait until it's 50% off or better. No one should be shoveling their cash into a furnace, even to keep warm for the winter.

    As a side note: They say the game won't have lootboxes, but we've seen that song and dance (and eventual betrayal, followed by hasty backtracking from community backlash) before with Payday. Let's see if they can actually keep that promise this time. One can hope.    … Expand
  2. Riverraid
    Nov 15, 2018
    1
    Seriously wtf is this? The game is just terrible. Poor UI and repetitive, and buggy game mechanics. Would be just fine if this was a BETA but no. Just play Left 4 dead.
  3. JorgeDominguez
    Nov 7, 2018
    1
    I wasn't sure to buy the game or not. I came here to find additional information and am quite disappointed - the ratings on Steam were not good, so I thought I get a more objective opinion here. Sadly, the high ratings, especially the "10s" are posted by affiliates and/or developers themselves. It is false information, misleading advertisement. It's actually shameful, as I can't throw myI wasn't sure to buy the game or not. I came here to find additional information and am quite disappointed - the ratings on Steam were not good, so I thought I get a more objective opinion here. Sadly, the high ratings, especially the "10s" are posted by affiliates and/or developers themselves. It is false information, misleading advertisement. It's actually shameful, as I can't throw my money at everything and have to think what I can buy and afford and what not. Trying to push sales by posting fake reviews is sad. The age of Trump I guess.… Expand
  4. RzrTrek
    Nov 8, 2018
    0
    https://youtu.be/vX_DeNZoLxM?t=12 The game has very long and frequent loading times between sessions, tons of connection issues, 2006 graphics with it's full share of performance issues, even playing on the best hardware and the griefers seem to have free reign online. Also the matchmaking is a joke and seemingly teams you up with casual players who don't have a clue how to play the gamehttps://youtu.be/vX_DeNZoLxM?t=12 The game has very long and frequent loading times between sessions, tons of connection issues, 2006 graphics with it's full share of performance issues, even playing on the best hardware and the griefers seem to have free reign online. Also the matchmaking is a joke and seemingly teams you up with casual players who don't have a clue how to play the game and just run around wrecking it for everyone instead of it being ranked and skill based and to add insult to injury, there's no VOIP, which means you can't play this game seriously, but then again it's to be expected by the likes of Starbreeze knowing their track record (dlc milking, raid, delays, hype, cgi-trailers, etc.) in other words this is yet another low effort cash grab by a company riding on the train of a successful franchise and how they dare to ask $60 ($80 for deluxe) for this garbage is beyond me, get it together guys, there are better games out there for half the price and games that actually deserves $60 such as Red Dead Redemption 2.… Expand
  5. BulgarianCritic
    Nov 21, 2018
    1
    An incredibly boring and tedious game that should not have even existed using the walking dead's name.If you wanna play a co-op zombie game that's actually exciting and fun to play i suggest looking elsewhere maybe play l4d2
  6. vacantknight5
    Dec 8, 2018
    3
    i gave this game multiple chances didnt follow the hate train. but man i regret buying this game. the level design is awful. can not play solo because there is way to many enemes. ai for humans is abslutely terrible, ai for sombies is bad. No one is palying this game. the story is terrible. they try to rip the story from TWD show they have a group that is exactly like the saviors drom thei gave this game multiple chances didnt follow the hate train. but man i regret buying this game. the level design is awful. can not play solo because there is way to many enemes. ai for humans is abslutely terrible, ai for sombies is bad. No one is palying this game. the story is terrible. they try to rip the story from TWD show they have a group that is exactly like the saviors drom the show. the graphics are fine. the missions are long with terrible checkpoints and each missions are dull and boring because your doing the same thing but with diffrent scenery. 3 mission are excatly the same, each map have diffrent variations but the same. they also kill of one of the cahrcter that you can play as so you cant play them anymore. none of the characters are enteresting. the charcters are very dull and boring so you dont care what happenes to them. there is multiple groups that fight you but look and feel exactly the same. overall very boring experience i dont reccomend i would just skip for now. its sad because i was looking forward to this game and i know people are getting bored of zombies games but i always like zombie games and play them but this is just lazy. the only reason this game sold anything at all was because of the name walking dead on it. score 4/10… Expand
  7. DomLo
    Nov 7, 2018
    1
    The game is not that great. Technically it is outdated and doesn't feel like a game worthy of 2018. It is at most an A title. And the price tag for this is too high. I refunded the game, as it plays like an Alpha build of a game. It feels very much like an "update" to the Payday game.Very similar in many different ways, long wait times on loading in etc.

    YouTube and Steam tell a    The game is not that great. Technically it is outdated and doesn't feel like a game worthy of 2018. It is at most an A title. And the price tag for this is too high. I refunded the game, as it plays like an Alpha build of a game. It feels very much like an "update" to the Payday game.Very similar in many different ways, long wait times on loading in etc.

    YouTube and Steam tell a different story regarding reviews and ratings. The positive votes here seem to be staged, especially as the current rating on Steam is 55%.    … Expand
  8. Aruba
    Nov 9, 2018
    2
    Repetitive, long load times, overpriced. But If you still want to play it wait for a 70% discount.
  9. redporper
    Nov 7, 2018
    1
    Check out how many of the "10" reviews only review games by this studio. It's only got a 52% over on Steam, which has thousands of reviews. This game just isn't fun and that's the bottom line. It's a boring slog that wouldn't have been fun 5 years ago. Steam will give you a refund if you play for less than two hours. Try out one of the "free" weekends they are bound to have very soon.Check out how many of the "10" reviews only review games by this studio. It's only got a 52% over on Steam, which has thousands of reviews. This game just isn't fun and that's the bottom line. It's a boring slog that wouldn't have been fun 5 years ago. Steam will give you a refund if you play for less than two hours. Try out one of the "free" weekends they are bound to have very soon. I defy you to find any joy in this overpriced steaming pile of garbage.… Expand
  10. AnEarthling
    Nov 19, 2018
    3
    This game is really bad. Overkill it still running off the Payday 2 train and this game is an exact copy but with a zombie skin on. The AI is amazingly bad, like super bad, probably even worse than payday 2's AI. The game play is so boring, just go to part A kill the zombies then go to part B but wait there's other survivors called "the family" and i kid you not, there are more "survivors"This game is really bad. Overkill it still running off the Payday 2 train and this game is an exact copy but with a zombie skin on. The AI is amazingly bad, like super bad, probably even worse than payday 2's AI. The game play is so boring, just go to part A kill the zombies then go to part B but wait there's other survivors called "the family" and i kid you not, there are more "survivors" than there are zombies. Like why is there a zombie game where you have to kill so many other survivors and forget you also have zombies to kill as well. This isn't even worth $20 and they're selling it for $60 lmao no.… Expand
  11. backohead74
    Jan 9, 2019
    4
    The game is mediocre, repetitive and has its share of bugs. UI is cheap looking and bland. What really pissed me off was it's claims to have Single Player. It doesn't really. Yes you can play the missions Solo with no AI bots and the game is completely impossible to pass the missions on your own. This is a total ZERO for solo players and a 5 for Multi, hence a 4. Easy Pass.
  12. adrenilinmatt
    Nov 7, 2018
    0
    A garbage cash in on a dead franchise. Play left 4 dead instead. Or any other zombie game.

    I was the same as everyone when i saw those beautiful CG trailers way back when, and i had hope for this game. But it is blatantly obvious that overkill threw most of their budget on those trailers, because the game that we have is a clunky, dull, repetitive drag. Its honestly not much better than    A garbage cash in on a dead franchise. Play left 4 dead instead. Or any other zombie game.

    I was the same as everyone when i saw those beautiful CG trailers way back when, and i had hope for this game. But it is blatantly obvious that overkill threw most of their budget on those trailers, because the game that we have is a clunky, dull, repetitive drag. Its honestly not much better than the absolutely abysmal "the walking dead: surval instinct", which was another cash in, which atleast had the advantage of existing in a time when the tv show was still relevant.

    Overkill truly have tried to cash in on a name. And it will probably work, because so many teenagers are all over TWD, and will be asking parents to purchase this game for them. So yeah, overkill will make sales. Which is a shame. Because this game is terrible. Combat has nothing to it, prepare to watch the same insufferabley slow and clunky animations over and over. Variety is not present, and it kills any longevity this game may have had.

    Graphics are as bad as you would expect from a cheap rushed cash in, this game would have fit right in with 2012. Its just that dated. Garbage.

    I could go on and on about how terrible this game is fundamentally, but i think its better for you to see for yourself. Before you buy this, find ANY gameplay video of this on youtube and ask yourself "is this worth 60 of my hard earned dollars?"

    NO. Like i said, i could rag on this games terrible mechanics, lack of story, bad optimization all day long, but the biggest offense is THE PRICE TAG.

    Are you guys over at overkill kidding me? 60 DOLLARS FOR THIS TRASH? It ships with like 2 game modes, and the content is does have is extremely poor.

    Ive seen slicker animations on mobile games. And i mean it. 0/10, id say 3 or 4, but for that price tag and the blatant cash in, this game gets 0/10.    … Expand
  13. Akabane_Kurodo
    Dec 26, 2018
    0
    Think about a bad game, this game is not worth anything.
    The team that made this game must commit "Seppuku" after this bomb.
  14. Tabyreka_1337
    Feb 3, 2019
    0
    There were hopes, but this is a complete failure, boring, uninteresting, how can you play this at all?
  15. Nake
    Feb 28, 2019
    0
    This game is just an scam made it by overkill, a dead game, bug simulator. The best to this game is that no longer has the rights of TWD and it was canceled, thank God!!!!
  16. spyrot2000
    Feb 27, 2019
    2
    I swear to god I can't understand why doesn't people realise this is just a Payday 2 clone.

    The baseball hit animation is the same as in Payday 2, what the heck.

    Overkill re-uses the Payday mechanics in every game they make. Like that WW2 game. Its like they don't know how to make a different games. All they've done in this years are **** Payday 2 DLCs. No wonder they ended up like this.
  17. Tamnier10
    Dec 18, 2018
    2
    I made an account here on metacritic due to all these obviously fake reviews written by either staff of overkill or by people paid to write reviews for them. The fact that someone can give a game like this a "10" and call it their best game ever is the biggest lie I ever seen since payday is obviously better no matter whoever looks at it.

    First of all, The gameplay is boring. You are    I made an account here on metacritic due to all these obviously fake reviews written by either staff of overkill or by people paid to write reviews for them. The fact that someone can give a game like this a "10" and call it their best game ever is the biggest lie I ever seen since payday is obviously better no matter whoever looks at it.

    First of all, The gameplay is boring. You are forced to play stealthy even though you can't avoid it due to gun noise made by you AND enemies attracts walkers. Bought silencers break after a short amount of time so you are forced to use melee weapons 80% of the time which is sluggish and boring. You are pigeon holed into finding random crappy items to assemble into doors and other items to progress the stage as obvious attempts to prolong the gameplay. When you finish a map you get one item and some exp after wasting 30 minutes to an hour of your life clicking the melee button over and over again. Amazing. Maybe you can build some walls if you want.

    The AI is godawful terrible. Glitches, wall clipping, vast bugs. Enemy AI is downright atrocious and is laughable at best. They do not pose a challenge at all and the only reason they can kill you is because they have 100/100 aim (human enemies) or neverending (zombies) both are tedious and boring. Compared to payday the special enemies are boring and slow and pose little to no threat.

    Here's an idea, stop throwing waves of human enemies at us in a world where humans are supposed to be scarce. Killing a human should actually MEAN SOMETHING.

    Story is nonexistant and grindy. Progression of this nonexistant story mode is stonewalled due to the fact that you have re grind a level you just played SEVERAL times just to upgrade all your stuff just to move on the story mode. By this time all of the streamers have quit so I never got to see the whole story (Even if I wanted to)

    You have a base which you upgrade things, but what is really even the point of having a base where there is so little interaction in it?

    Honestly this game is just much WORSE reskin of their hit franchise payday which they milked to death and thought they could getaway making more of the same.

    Avoid this overpriced( 60$), tedious, trainwreck of a game.    … Expand
  18. FrankHeinzer
    Mar 11, 2019
    0
    Terrible game with the lowest quality of production possible. Also the fact that the publisher/developer used fake user reviews to promote this game is sickening - and yet the game still tanked! Laughable.

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 34 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 24 out of 34
  3. Negative: 9 out of 34
  1. CD-Action
    Feb 6, 2019
    40
    The Walking Dead license was wasted on an ugly game that plays crudely, offers little content and trails behind a decade-old Left 4 Dead. [01/2019, p.56]
  2. GameStar
    Dec 16, 2018
    58
    Overkill's The Walking Dead can be fun in a group but most of the time monotony and balancing weaknesses are frustrating.
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  3. GameGrin
    Dec 3, 2018
    35
    I really wanted to like this game, and after the beta I was hoping there would be more to it than what they were testing. Unfortunately, there’s not, and there’s absolutely no way I could recommend buying this game. If you could pick it up for £10, sure, but four times that? No way.
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