It's awesome! It's a lot like Heavy Rain, in that it is extremely interactive in a unique style of gameplay, but this takes is further:
every time you make a decision or choose how to respond in conversation or to a situation, the game notes this at the upper left, example : "Steve now knows you have a boat", and all these little decisions make the game branch off into different permutations.
The game gives you a limited time to respond, or you can choose to do nothing, and the game notes that too, but you are forced to make on the spot decisions and then live with the consequences.
The neat part is all this complexity is spread across five episodes so basically at the end of episode 5, your experience could be vastly different than mine! You'll meet different people, different events will occur.
The game takes place at the very beginning of the outbreak. You play a prisoner being escorted to the pen. Something happens that lets you get away. There are familiar characters from the show, and you get to see what they were doing at the beginning.
And it's genuinely scary! We've all played zombie games and are all pretty desensitized to the scare. Not possible with this game!
You play a regular human being, an injured one at that, not a super human with blazing guns, mowing down enemies.
When you face a zombie, the style of the gameplay, and the graphics/sound make it really pretty intense.
Sounds incredible on my Maggies, especially all the ambient sounds, it's a living, breathing world drawn in the thick lines of the comic.
If you are a fan of this show, you are missing out HUGE by not playing this.
