When I play The Witcher 3, it’s clear that I am in the realm of the action role-playing game. When I play an NHL game, I can tell you that it is a sports game emulating the real-world practice of a sport. I’ll say it plainly: I have no idea what these games are any more. Enter the first two episodes of The New Frontier, the third go around for The Walking Dead narrative within the framework of the Telltale game (technically their fourth Walking Dead game, though, after last year’s Michonne prequel). It might be impossible to capture the magic in successive sequels. The second season wasn’t for me, and I ended my review of that game by suggesting the unthinkable: This formula in this particular game form might have only worked one time. It was a smart, interesting version of a zombie story that kept its focus on human life against a backdrop of a complete breakdown of society. While it isn’t labeled as such, A New Frontier is the third “season” of these Walking Dead games, and as such it is resting on a lineage of these adaptations that stretches back to the critical success of their first foray into this universe in 2012. The Walking Dead: A New Frontier is the latest game in Telltale’s Walking Dead franchise, a videogame spinoff series of the popular comic book and television show.
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