The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series - A New Frontier

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  1. Iky009
    Jun 4, 2017
    8
    Reviewing grown-up Clem is a fantastic, nostalgic feeling since I'm in love with the character, but frustration has taken over me during the entire game. The New Frontier was a risky move, totally taking the focus off Clem, and playing for Javier, a new character who is hard to sympathize with. The game may not please most of those who have been following the last two games (like me andReviewing grown-up Clem is a fantastic, nostalgic feeling since I'm in love with the character, but frustration has taken over me during the entire game. The New Frontier was a risky move, totally taking the focus off Clem, and playing for Javier, a new character who is hard to sympathize with. The game may not please most of those who have been following the last two games (like me and half a bout of crazy), but still, even without the weight of their predecessors, A New Frontier has a good story, new characters Interesting, and of course a good ending.… Expand
  2. anterolol
    Dec 28, 2016
    0
    Clementine isn't playable and only gets 10% of the entire screen time. Javier is bland and has a boring story. Episodes are 60 minutes long, down from 90 minutes in season 2 and 120-150 minutes in season 1. The writing is atrocious.

    If you have any respect for Clementine or Lee, don't buy this game. It destroys everything from the past 2 seasons.

    This is an insult and a betrayal to all fans.
  3. UberDriver
    Dec 20, 2016
    10
    The Walking Dead: A New Frontier starts very strong. In the first 2 minutes you are in a room with a "Walker".
    Which is very surprising coming from telltale, which always had boring introductions so they later could make a good story.
    And this season we are introduced to new characters. And I am glad to say that I were invested in the new characters just as I am with Clementine. And    The Walking Dead: A New Frontier starts very strong. In the first 2 minutes you are in a room with a "Walker".
    Which is very surprising coming from telltale, which always had boring introductions so they later could make a good story.

    And this season we are introduced to new characters. And I am glad to say that I were invested in the new characters just as I am with Clementine.

    And A new feauture in the game is some kind of "backseat gaming" feauture were you and YOUR friends from a app can decide what to say which make it more fun when my mates were arguing about what to pick.

    Graphics is a big improvement since the last season, the characters is more detailed then ever with their new engine.

    This is a must buy. And don't worry if you have missed all season's because you can pick diffrent

    *Spoiler alert*

    Clementine is now more bad ass than ever!

    Good Work Telltale!    … Expand
  4. vebz_uk
    Jan 16, 2017
    6
    This for Episode 1 and 2 and after playing all previous seasons.

    The story isn't as strong as Clementine in original story. We as audience associated and related a lot with Clementine and expected the story to continue from where we left. It had a good pace and background. Now feels like starting from a complete new angle and more drama than emotions. I do see changes in the    This for Episode 1 and 2 and after playing all previous seasons.

    The story isn't as strong as Clementine in original story. We as audience associated and related a lot with Clementine and expected the story to continue from where we left. It had a good pace and background. Now feels like starting from a complete new angle and more drama than emotions.

    I do see changes in the graphics. It looks like a major upgrade. There are less glitches. I hope the story picks up later on. If it does, I will come back and provide more favourable reviews. Until then. my recommendation would be to wait and watch.    … Expand
  5. garland_spqr
    Dec 20, 2016
    8
    A very promising start to season 3 of the walking dead. Graphic detail has improved quite a lot and the game looks beautiful, although there are quite some performance issues and glitches.
    The characters seem quite interesting and believable. Maybe not as strong as in season one or the 400days characters, but good nevertheless. The first two episodes are well put together with nice pacing    A very promising start to season 3 of the walking dead. Graphic detail has improved quite a lot and the game looks beautiful, although there are quite some performance issues and glitches.
    The characters seem quite interesting and believable. Maybe not as strong as in season one or the 400days characters, but good nevertheless. The first two episodes are well put together with nice pacing of the story. There are never any boring moments.    … Expand
  6. Salogel125
    Dec 29, 2016
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Telltale games have totally shot themselves in the foot recently by taking on way too many projects and half-assing them out the door but its good to see that their bread and butter game is still being given such a great deal of attention.

    The game runs better than previous installments, the game taking place from an entirely new characters POV right off the bat was a decision that worried me but has evidently worked great and as usual just where I think I've done everything right and everyone might live and be happy for at least a little while something that I forgot about momentarily comes out of left field and turns everything on its head.

    The ending of the first episode messed me up so much that a week later I keep chickening out of playing episode 2 for fear of dealing with the fallout of what happened. And I mean that as a good thing.    … Expand
  7. SuperkenGaming
    May 31, 2017
    7
    The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
    New characters, same problems.
    A new frontier is an interactive choose your own adventure type game featuring 5 episodes... Here you play as both a new character former baseball player Javier Garcia as well as continue the story of Season 1 and 2s Clementine at first I was a little sad that we weren’t playing primarily as clementine this time around...    The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
    New characters, same problems.
    A new frontier is an interactive choose your own adventure type game featuring 5 episodes...
    Here you play as both a new character former baseball player Javier Garcia as well as continue the story of Season 1 and 2s Clementine
    at first I was a little sad that we weren’t playing primarily as clementine this time around... But I grew to love playing as Javier and trying to take care of his family…
    As you start out with just your niece, nephew, and brother’s wife…
    And as you’d expect things happen to make this 7 hour journey to the games end, not the smoothest walk through the park…
    The game does carry over choices from the past walking dead games, or allows you to choose before the game starts as it does continue the clementine story...
    I was just a little disappointed with how they handled my season 2 ending... and how they wrote Kenny out of my story…
    it felt extremely unimpactful for being the only person I’ve had by my side as clementine from the beginning…
    the departure felt rush and left me feeling no emotion…
    In fact the game for the most part is dealing with moody teenagers and a complicated relationship…
    Things do get emotional, and tears did shed…
    I just wish some of the emotional moments were drug out a little longer or that certain moments that should’ve been emotional felt more than just a quick bump to get over and then onto the next thing…
    As far as performance and gameplay goes..
    These games are best when you’re making decisions…
    Changing the path your characters go down and how everyone in the story reacts to you...
    I felt I deserved everything that came my way, and there were definitely hard choices to make here…
    But there are the typical telltale performance issues…
    As the game crashed on me within the first 20 minutes of playing causing me to restart from the beginning…
    But thankfully the other 4 episodes ran perfectly…
    There are the occasional boring adventure type section where you have to interact with the world...
    These moments are never fun and really feel like they’re there just to be there... completely unnecessary//
    But the most annoying thing gameplay wise are the occasional point and aim quick time events…
    You never have any indication of what you should actually be aiming at, or what you should be trying to do in that situation.. And the curser is always off in an awkward position so it never feels natural...
    Which can lead to many trial and error moments… made worse by the fact that there’s sometimes a brief cut scene before these moments that you have to watch through just to try again …
    And design and setting wise... you do a lot of spending your time in settlements.. Which definitely gets boring…
    the variety like the first season had is missing... episodes no longer feel like unique chunks within the story…
    A New Frontier is a good experience…
    But it’s just good…
    A bit boring at times, but will still punch you in the guts with some feels…
    I Give The Walking Dead: A New Frontier a 7/10    … Expand
  8. DrZomboid
    Sep 20, 2017
    6
    Unimportant sequel and story. All new characters around Clem. No more focus on zombie problem, now we got family drama instead. Kinda boring. Better graphics but still laggy cutscenes.
  9. OfficialMonkey
    Apr 6, 2017
    0
    TL;DR - Offensive to S1 and S2 players.
    Rest in bloody peace: a series which once used to be great.
    Short 60 minute episodes (and the awful story makes it even worse), Clementine is playable for 5 minutes per ep, false advertisting pre-release, this is Javier's story for whatever **** reason even though we never asked for this and just wanted a GOOD continuation of Clementine's story    TL;DR - Offensive to S1 and S2 players.
    Rest in bloody peace: a series which once used to be great.

    Short 60 minute episodes (and the awful story makes it even worse), Clementine is playable for 5 minutes per ep, false advertisting pre-release, this is Javier's story for whatever **** reason even though we never asked for this and just wanted a GOOD continuation of Clementine's story (but this is an ABYSMAL continuation - this shouldn't even be called S3), The story is awful, and Clem is just a side character shoe-horned in when she was pretty much the main character for the previous two seasons. This isn't Clem's story, this is Javier's story - so this shouldn't even have Clem in it if Telltale wants to tell Javier's story so badly because she's just shoe-horned in and a side character. All the false advertising pre-release doesn't help either. Her being in every bloody advertisement also doesn't help. We played as Clementine in Season 2 and shaped our Clementine, and now Clementine is a supporting character again plus her personality doesn't change at all depending on your choices last season. Easy choices and deaths don't affect you because there is not enough character development and the game just pushes you forwards without any chance to talk to characters like in Season 1 (and even S2). This review would be too long if I talked about every issue, but SOME of the main issues are up there. SOME of the main issues. S2 choices don't **** matter for ****    … Expand
  10. Mindkiller7522
    Jun 26, 2021
    6
    6/25/21-6/26/21 100% Story

    The third chapter in Telltale's Walking Dead series is not quite a great as the first, but was still interesting enough to keep me going until the end. Instead of Clementine, you play as Javier-an ex-baseball star with a ton of family drama and a weird relationship with his sister-in-law. They are roaming about when the run afoul of a dangerous group of    6/25/21-6/26/21 100% Story

    The third chapter in Telltale's Walking Dead series is not quite a great as the first, but was still interesting enough to keep me going until the end.

    Instead of Clementine, you play as Javier-an ex-baseball star with a ton of family drama and a weird relationship with his sister-in-law. They are roaming about when the run afoul of a dangerous group of survivors. After several misunderstandings the story starts rolling pretty well, with the usual twists and surprising deaths, as well as the token Walking Dead comic book character appearance.

    I do think the story would have been better following Clementine instead of Javier, though. I get what the creators were going for and Clem does play a pretty big role in the story, but Javier's family are all pretty irritating (especially Gabe). It is a bit shorter than previous entries, though, which limits the sections where the story drags that appear in most Telltale games.

    The game did run fairly smoothly, with a minor video glitch in Episode 3 that made it look like Javier had strings attached to him. Controls and loading times were both serviceable, as much as previous Telltale games have been.    … Expand
  11. Dragonfly44
    Oct 20, 2018
    8
    It doesn’t quite have the charm the other seasons has, but it still holds well as an amazing story with great characters.

    Rating - 86%
  12. Direwolf73
    Dec 29, 2017
    7
    After finishing up the season the story telling was solid and the game mechanics were good. But after two seasons of telling Clementines story this foray into new characters created a problem. We have spent so much time caring about Clem and we needed more from her. So I struggled at times but eventually came on board. Overall It was what we expect from Telltale but nothing too earth shattering.
  13. SouthernPoint
    Sep 8, 2020
    7
    Even though I enjoyed this game, it's definitely the worst in the series. If you haven't played the series before I'd recommend playing the other three over this. I wasn't really on board with the introduction of new characters as I've had two games getting to know Clementine. Eventually, I got into it, though it wasn't nearly as strong as Clementine's story. Still a good game.
  14. MauryEdson
    Feb 26, 2020
    8
    esse é bonzinho, vale os 1000g mas o melhor é o michone ...............................................
  15. SunshineRex1885
    May 24, 2021
    10
    Este jogo certamente é o mais forte de todos os seus antecessores! Nele não só conhecemos personagens novos com uma história fantástica que nos leva a conflitos familiares existentes muito antes da praga zumbi, como nos representa personagens já conhecidos de jogos anteriores muito mais maduros e fortalecidos pela praga zumbi! Novamente o jogo nos dá opções de como jogar o mesmo, mantendoEste jogo certamente é o mais forte de todos os seus antecessores! Nele não só conhecemos personagens novos com uma história fantástica que nos leva a conflitos familiares existentes muito antes da praga zumbi, como nos representa personagens já conhecidos de jogos anteriores muito mais maduros e fortalecidos pela praga zumbi! Novamente o jogo nos dá opções de como jogar o mesmo, mantendo a tendência já encontrada nos jogos anteriores, aonde o jogador toma decisões e as mesmas terão um impacto cedo ou tarde, posso destacar 2 delas que são destaque no game, construir um relacionamento com seu irmão, ou seguir seu coração pela mulher que você ama, e isso cria uma trama completamente secundária a todo aquele clima de sobrevivência, o jogo conta uma história que vai além de sobreviver, ele conta essa história enquanto você sobrevive, é de fato um game simples em sua essência porém tão completo em conteúdo, sua trama emociona o jogador, o deixa empolgado e até mesmo com raiva em certos momentos aonde se ocorre uma injustiça, de todo é um jogo mais que aprovado por mim e certamente com uma das tramais mais intensas que já experimentei em um jogo do seguimento!… Expand
  16. ThaFlu84
    Sep 4, 2019
    7
    Too many inconsistencies with the characters, choices, and story makes this feel like it was rushed. However, it is still worth a play through.
  17. Papermo0n
    May 24, 2021
    10
    Quedé enganchadísimo con la historia para mi un juego de 10 dentro de su género.
  18. Thejodjeremie
    Feb 26, 2022
    8
    I just finished the season and it was awesome. I love these types of games so I enjoyed every minute of this season. The new characters that are introduced all great and the story kept me hooked.
  19. patopatoso
    Jan 15, 2022
    6
    É pior que as duas anteriores, mas ainda sim te prende. Os personagens são menos carismáticos, poucos locais, história inconsistente, e parece um spin off.
  20. wiredspore44
    Jan 20, 2021
    8
    A decent story but would work better as a spin-off. I didn't really like how Clementine was side-lined after two seasons of character development. I think Javier was a decent protagonist but not as good as Lee or Clementine. I liked the more stylistic gameplay but i didn't like how short the episodes were as this was supposed to be the season following the first two. The characters wereA decent story but would work better as a spin-off. I didn't really like how Clementine was side-lined after two seasons of character development. I think Javier was a decent protagonist but not as good as Lee or Clementine. I liked the more stylistic gameplay but i didn't like how short the episodes were as this was supposed to be the season following the first two. The characters were decent and i especially liked Javi's relationship with his brother. I didn't like how little control it felt you had compared to the other games and i felt most of my actions were inconsequential. Overall, i thought this was a decent walking dead game which would've worked better if it just replaced that stupid Michonne game and was a spin-off.… Expand
  21. 3t3rnal
    Jan 27, 2021
    2
    First off, as I did with the rest of the Telltale seasonal games I played, I will mention this - this is more of an interactive book than a game, its gameplay is limited to some QTE minigames, a couple "point-and-click" adventure scenes and some dialog scenes. This alone means it will not be interesting or enjoyable for a lot of people.

    Second thing I always mention in these, is that    First off, as I did with the rest of the Telltale seasonal games I played, I will mention this - this is more of an interactive book than a game, its gameplay is limited to some QTE minigames, a couple "point-and-click" adventure scenes and some dialog scenes. This alone means it will not be interesting or enjoyable for a lot of people.

    Second thing I always mention in these, is that the impact of player choices is very small in regards to the overall story and the marketing and in-game information regarding the impact of choices being misleading. The story is very linear, it will take you to the same locations under the same circumstances most of the time, and the end-point is pretty specific and you will arrive to it no matter what you do. That being said, the choices you make do impact characters and their relationship with your character considerably.

    Third disclaimer, which I did not use with the other games - I generally avoid writing reviews for games I did not complete (or played for significant amount of time in case of sandbox games), both here on Metacritic and on other pages and forums I visit / used to visit. That is because in most cases, I do not finish them because they simply are not to my liking, not because they would be simply so bad I refuse to complete them. However, there are a couple games which do fall into the category of "so bad I can't play more of it", and this season of TWD falls into this category, or rather, the second half of it does, and so review it I shall, although even the first half lags behind in overall quality.

    Graphics are much better than previous two seasons, the characters are modeled much better, animations are smoother, more human, facial expressions are great, the world is detailed - the game remains true to its comics style of visuals, but brings them to a completely new level. There were points in the game where I wanted to just stand and admire the locations and the details in them, but I did not, which brings us to the first major issue - the optimization is terrible. The game freezes on some scene changes just like in Season 2, but the micro-stutter is now nearly constant and there are semi-common frame drops into what looks like 10-15 FPS area, which does not impact the gameplay that much, considering the gameplay loop of the game, but it can still be jarring, as some of these drops come suddenly and last 10-30 seconds.

    Sound design is overall average again, nothing special, but sound engineering is quite bad. Ambient sounds and background music have a tendency to stutter, sound-tear and loop short sections during scene changes (when the game freezes), but it also happens when scenes are on-going and in times when there aren't framedrops, so it is not necessarily tied to that.

    Voice acting is still top notch, though, so there's that, at least.

    Story and characters - this is where the largest drop of quality is. The character you get to play is not one from the initial group you start out with in Season 1 and in Season 2, and it immediately feels like all of the progress and choices you made have had 0 consequences so far, which is really bad. They did call it A New Frontier and implied it is a different story (hence not Season 3), but it's a full fledged game, unlike the Michonne spin-off or the 400-days DLC for first season, and the story of the first group - or what is left of it, is not really resolved in the first and second season. ANF does this, in a very lackluster, off hand way - subverting expectations like The Last Jedi, before it was cool to be The Last Jedi - and it does contain a member of the initial group as a side character (playable in some short sections with memory flashbacks) - and the fact that this character which you are emotionally invested in and essentially helped to build into what they are now kills off almost all interest in playing the character you are given.

    The story also returns the pacing and character interaction issues (out of character behavior) from season 1 and combines them with underdeveloped relationships of season 2. The side-characters are also less compelling. The story also, in the second half, switches focus from survival and relationships and behavior of humans in life-or-death situations into a very shallow and badly written political intrigue story, which is more like a bad re-enactment of kindergarten spat than a story of political conflict between politically powerful adults. The antagonists also change from a mix of regular people and broken people into literal 60s Spiderman cartoon villains in 4th episode, at which point I just quit and just lost all interest finishing this mess and in playing the last season.

    Conclusion: Still technically disappointing and broken in both optimization and sound design and engineering, same misleading marketing regarding impact of choices on the story, this time with terrible plot and cartoonish antagonist.    … Expand
  22. Ray6701
    Nov 7, 2021
    10
    Awesome masterpiece wow amazing graphics cool experience and great story cool
  23. kryst3
    Feb 3, 2022
    6
    The game is fine, but i cant see my choices after every episode. Whats more, Clementine isnt playable as in the season 2
  24. popPunker
    Mar 5, 2022
    10
    Esse jogo é maravilhoso, ele é curto? depende do ponto de vista, se tu for jogar ele só uma vez pra pegar as conquistas, então sim, ele vai ser curto, mas essa não é a melhor maneira de aproveitar ele, pois as decisões que tu toma tem um impacto gigantesco em todos os momentos, não é como a maioria dos outros games que só o final importa e suas decisões no meio do game são irrelevantes.Esse jogo é maravilhoso, ele é curto? depende do ponto de vista, se tu for jogar ele só uma vez pra pegar as conquistas, então sim, ele vai ser curto, mas essa não é a melhor maneira de aproveitar ele, pois as decisões que tu toma tem um impacto gigantesco em todos os momentos, não é como a maioria dos outros games que só o final importa e suas decisões no meio do game são irrelevantes.

    É o melhor game que já joguei desse gênero, no primeiro capitulo eu já me emocionei, é incrível como o jogo consegue fazer tu se importar com TODOS os personagens, tu sente vontade de proteger todo mundo, sente medo de magoar qualquer um deles pq tu sente que no fundo todos são boas pessoas.

    Detalhe, esse foi o primeiro jogo da franquia que joguei e posso dizer que tu não precisa ter jogado nenhum outro jogo pra entender bem ele, pois ele consegue apresentar muito bem todos os personagens.    … Expand
  25. Sadra_The_Gamer
    Jan 2, 2023
    7
    To put it simply, TWD: New Frontier suffers from exactly the same problems as TWD: Michonne. But if you are one of those who care about Clementine's future, don't miss it.
  26. dylansgaming48
    Jul 25, 2023
    6
    this one was really disappointing i was pretty excited for this one but it was just not to be
  27. M1sfiT
    Sep 3, 2023
    5
    Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamessss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! twd 3

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  1. Official Xbox Magazine UK
    Jul 25, 2017
    70
    Maybe a bit flat compared to previous seasons but still pretty nerve-jangling. [Aug 2017, p.78]
  2. EGM
    Jun 9, 2017
    75
    It’s a solid third season for The Walking Dead, but we’ve seen so much better. Cheap plot devices and inconsistent tones in the writing hurt the overall quality of the narrative, and the Telltale Tool continues to show its age in the worst ways. And, for diehard fans, Clementine will still find a way to steal the show from the new cast.
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  3. LevelUp
    Jun 7, 2017
    73
    Despite its promising subtitle, there's little new in The Walking Dead: A New Frontier to write home about. A revamped presentation, new characters, and excellent voice acting make it live up to the expectations, but the traditional flaws on the technical side of things and an undeniable stagnation on the narrative one stop it from reaching the greatness of the first season.
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