The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners

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8.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 136 Ratings

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  1. UnholygamerGrim
    Mar 31, 2020
    0
    Its a great game i love the mechanics of the game i would greatly recommend it
  2. lostideas
    Jan 25, 2020
    0
    Hello. I would like to express that I am playing the game and and that I am really disappointed and nervous.

    First of all, the game has nothing to do with promotional videos. This is a scam that really frustrates and makes people feel angry and deceived! Technical critics are already many. You read from them. We will talk about something else and more serious. When he was at the    Hello. I would like to express that I am playing the game and and that I am really disappointed and nervous.

    First of all, the game has nothing to do with promotional videos. This is a scam that really frustrates and makes people feel angry and deceived! Technical critics are already many. You read from them.

    We will talk about something else and more serious. When he was at the beginning of the game, a little bit advanced and a zombie attack happened while he had just acquired the knife and gun. I didn't know what happened, my knife broke and fell to the ground. I couldn't get it again and I couldn't find it!

    Not only that. With one bullet left, I fired and finished. I immediately tried to fill the bullet. But what a cure! It is as if this treacherous game that does not want you to die and progress is filling the bullets one by one, it bursts the bullet of the six guns! I filled a bullet, and while I was running away and trying to fill more bullets, I was running out of energy and I stopped officially! Sure zombies stop! How many are coming at once. I couldn't fill the bullet, I couldn't get the gun I got from the ground because of the attack, and I died helplessly.

    But the strangeness is here, when I start the game again, I had neither a knife nor a gun! I said, "Is this going to happen? Let me take it from where I dropped it." This time I could not find anywhere. It turns out that you went to a backpack icon next to where you died and got your supplies from there! Of course, if you don't die until you get there! Anyway, we went around. But there was only a knife in it. There was no weapon again. And we're dead again!

    This is not how it goes and this game is not played like this, we downloaded the trainer from the internet. With unlimited life and ammo, we could supposedly play and enjoy the game comfortably. But what wander! We never got a gun again! Neither explodes, nor shotgun. There are none of them, but believe me, for 2-3 hours, he brought me the ammunition of different weapons! In the meantime, broken, broken weapons and shotguns appear as you make fun of it! I even said to kill a person who has a gun in two times and get his gun. I saw that the weapon that fell on the ground after the man died was deliberately broken by the game and I was crazy!

    No story, no intermediate videos, or no intermediate videos! I do not know where the video in this promotional video is animated and which makes you think that the game has great adventure and visuality. I don't think it's somewhere in the game!

    In-game visuals and gameplay are really troublesome and gameplay, as we mentioned above, is very dire as we have not seen in any game. I came somewhere and now I had to stop. I got tired of getting killed with the spoons and screwdrivers I found the zombies, and the iron I found later. Because you have no other purpose and story! Ha, do not take things like bricks and iron candle holders around you for nothing. They're not doing anything when you throw them and hit them in the head. Oh, they're causing you to die!

    I really stepped out of the game with the feeling of being seriously angry and deceived, and I could not take my speed and see it at work, I wrote them to inform everyone.

    I would never have gone this far without the trainer. Maybe I couldn't move on but I would be upset that there were beautiful scenes ahead! But thanks to the trainer, I saw that there was nothing other than killing stupid zombies in empty spaces, after advancing 7 episodes in the game. And they called it an enormous 15-hour game! It takes up 40 GB of space! I am really unable to explain this. If you play 15 hours, write it, let's find out!
    But 2-3 hours of pointless disgrace and effort were enough. FYI .. Don't worry about looking at the promotional videos of this game and buying your money. I would say 60 lira on Steam and free for $ 40 on Oculus and almost buy it. I learned that this game is paying you! Therefore, stay away from buying. It is not like my frustration because yours!    … Expand
  3. AndroidVageta
    Mar 10, 2020
    4
    Try to make this short and sweet if I can. Played using a Intel i9 9900K, 16GB DDR4-3200, 2080Ti, 2TB nVME, and Oculus Rift CV1 with quad sensors. Game version is the Update #5.

    First the good parts. inventory system works pretty well. Decent amount of starting space. Performance is decent and I haven't had any technical issues. Killing zombies feels satisfying enough. Not as    Try to make this short and sweet if I can. Played using a Intel i9 9900K, 16GB DDR4-3200, 2080Ti, 2TB nVME, and Oculus Rift CV1 with quad sensors. Game version is the Update #5.

    First the good parts.

    inventory system works pretty well. Decent amount of starting space.

    Performance is decent and I haven't had any technical issues.

    Killing zombies feels satisfying enough. Not as good as Blade and Sorcery though.

    Locations feel decently real in their layout and design.

    Upgrade and crafting system are handled well. Not the best but simple and engaging enough.

    Bandaging system is pretty cool...having to physically wrap the bandage is pretty immersive. Defintely a first and great VR choice.

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    Now the mediocre:

    Graphics are not impressive in the slightest. Very cartoony approach (think the Telltales games) and the textures and models are very low quality. The level of detail draw distance is also horrible. Things like vehicles will dramatically tranform their quality several times as you approach within like 15 feet. Super noticeable and for such low quality graphics already having everything be max quality all the time would take very little performance hit.

    Resource gathering and collecting is pretty ho-hum. It works well enough but all you're practically doing 90% of the time playing is just collection bullstuff, dropping off bullstuff one by one in your little recycling bin, then going out to refill on more bullstuff...rinse and repeat. I'm not necessarily marking this as "bad" because it does work well and hunting and gathering can lead to interesting locations and areas but it's still a slog game play wise and time wise.

    Weapons feel OK but just that...don't expect anything past very basic combat and interactions there in.

    The world while seemingly interesting and mysterious is pretty shallow with very little to actually do outside resource gathering or the occasional side mission.

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    Now onto the bad and there's a good bit:

    Stamina system is garbage. I get maybe the running part but my arms gettign tired should depend on my own arms...I don't get tired after swinging a knife a few times. The stamina bar takes too long to refill and the permanent drain of it just limits this poor system even more.

    Health is handled poorly as well. You take too much damage and it too has a deminishing "max" just like the stamina bar.

    The weapons have a use limit before breaking but the limit is ridiculous. Not that I've EVER agreed with mechanics like these (show me any steel knife that literally becomes useless after even 100 uses!) but this game takes it too far. A crowbar breaks. A crowbar can survive a nuclear blast.

    The level of interaction and things to do pretty much sucks. You gather resources and maybe help/kill some random NPC. The story is pretty weak and everything just feels so...empty. So video game like. Once I got sick of repetitous resource gathering and just used a trainer for unlimited resources the game was fun for like an hour before there was just nothing left to do or accomplish. Sure I cheated and unlocked late level stuff early but my God...I couldn't imagine playing long enough or caring enough to unlock half this stuff. In other works, it's just there to pad the game out.

    There's a bunch of other little minor annoyances as well like no head mounted light, no way to adjust the position of anything on your person like your item slots, gotta unload inventory items one by one...just little stuff the break the immersion of a VR game.

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    So yeah over all it's just OK...barely. Sure production values are higher than most but it's still a mediocre game and experience still. Graphics are pretty bad, weapons and weapon handling is pretty poor, the world puts on a false sense of depth but is very shallow.

    Not bad for a few hours for sure...you'll HAVE FUN...but in the end I think it was pretty pointless, time consuming, and little to no reward.    … Expand
  4. EveryLevel
    Jan 25, 2022
    3
    Game not very good. It shouldn't have the Walking Dead Tag line. Other then the NPC looking like looters from TWD. It's just a Zombie bandit game with a bad story. I wear glass and this game is still too Dark. You will walk by so much ♥♥♥♥ due to so. You have a flashlight but know one wants to jerk them self every 10 - 20 sec.
    Best thing is killing zombie. They did do that good. When the    Game not very good. It shouldn't have the Walking Dead Tag line. Other then the NPC looking like looters from TWD. It's just a Zombie bandit game with a bad story. I wear glass and this game is still too Dark. You will walk by so much ♥♥♥♥ due to so. You have a flashlight but know one wants to jerk them self every 10 - 20 sec.
    Best thing is killing zombie. They did do that good. When the horde of zombies come. Just run. You can't kill them all.
    GG 3 Bacon ~ ~ ~    … Expand
  5. GekyumeX
    Jan 8, 2022
    0
    Game won't even open with Quest 2. Devs haven't even fixed it and I'm not the only one with this mistake. It won't work with AirLink nor Virtual Desktop. Stay away from this sh 1 t.
  6. Stbbrn
    Dec 5, 2020
    1
    - The gameplay is very repetitive: kill zombies, pick up ressources, craft, get a quest item and put it somewhere.
    - The story is very very slow paced and underwhelming.
    - It’s always dark, even during the day. Always the same bad weather. You get quickly used to this monotone ambiance, making the game not scary at all. - You get very used to see zombies everywhere, making the game even    - The gameplay is very repetitive: kill zombies, pick up ressources, craft, get a quest item and put it somewhere.
    - The story is very very slow paced and underwhelming.
    - It’s always dark, even during the day. Always the same bad weather. You get quickly used to this monotone ambiance, making the game not scary at all.
    - You get very used to see zombies everywhere, making the game even less scary.
    - The maps are all very similar.
    - The towns only have about two buildings you can explore.
    - Even crouching and with the shoes upgrade and with zombie organs smeared on you, zombies will detect you very easily
    - After smearing a zombie organ on yourself, you have to wait until the smell wears off to apply more.
    - Human NPC’s AI sucks, their pathfinding just doesn’t work well.
    - Picking objects you’re carrying is really buggy. For instance, half of the times I try to pick my journal, I end up having in my hand the bow I was carrying on my back.
    - When you’re crouching, it’s impossible to put back your weapons in your pockets or on your back.
    - The journal is very uncomfortable to use. I always bump my controllers into each other when I use it.
    - Weapons break way too quickly so you constantly have to pick up a ton of resources, I feel like this is what I mostly do during the game. I would rather have weapons that last longer and have more scarce ressources to find, or get them from side quests.
    - It’s really difficult to avoid zombies because of how linear the maps are, you always have to cross their path.
    - The bow is a hell to use, there is nothing indicating where the arrow will end up. And even though it’s the most discrete long distance weapon, it will draw zombies attention anyway.
    - Walking is very slow, you’re about half slower than human NPCs when they walk    … Expand

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Metascore
81

Generally favorable reviews - based on 28 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 28
  3. Negative: 0 out of 28
  1. GameCritics
    May 4, 2020
    85
    If Half-Life: Alyx sold as many VR headsets as it should have, every new adopter needs to make Saints & Sinners a priority. Although it obviously lacks the polish that Valve was able to bring to their juggernaut, it’s another hearty single-player offering that was not only built from the ground up for VR, but showcases the exciting advancements unique to the platform. It’s an easy recommendation, even to people like me who thought they were sick of zombies.
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  2. Worth Playing
    Mar 18, 2020
    88
    I had a lot of fun with The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners. The combat is fun and downright brutal at times. The story falters at the end, but it's an enjoyable ride that carries you through the 10-20 hour journey. VR desperately needed a longer experience like this, and Skybound and Skydance have delivered with great success. This isn't a four-hour, story-driven, escape room-style game. It's not a shooter on rails or an arena shooter. This is a full-fledged game, and it's great. This is not quite the "killer app" that VR needed, but it's one massive step in the right direction for VR. Any owner of a dedicated PC VR headset owes it to themselves to buy and play this game. Saints & Sinners sparks hope in me that VR still has a bright future ahead — even if that future is a dark, damp New Orleans.
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  3. Gaming Nexus
    Feb 26, 2020
    80
    The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners is a great game. It's just that maybe it's not a great game for you. Maybe, like me, you don't have your VR legs enough to enjoy it. Maybe you want a little bit more from the PC hardware you have to run it on and won't accept the compromises this game makes. Maybe you just have TWD fatigue. If those things don't stand in your way, then what is on offer is an incredible and immersive experience. A well-developed virtual playground to craft and battle your way through a rich world and story that is only let down by an implementation that just screams compromise to make way for a PSVR release.
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