THE WALKING DEAD game series has always been an apt representation of Telltale Games. The inaugural season represented the best of what the studio had to offer, while the inconsistency of later ones also demonstrated their wavering quality and ignorance towards to annoying technical shortcomings. The Walking Dead: The Final Season Episode 1 is the intro of their last game on this fittingly shambling engine and, thus, feels like the sendoff to a certain chapter of Telltale’s existence. Even with new technology on the horizon, the first episode of this (alleged) final season feels like a testbed for a better style of game that adds new gameplay mechanics and a more cinematic presentation while maintaining Telltale’s signature solid character work.

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