The plot changes depending on what you do, which can have ramifications on everything from what somebody thinks of you, to who lives and who dies. The meat of the game remains the tremendous dialogue and the sheer number of choices that need to be made when deciding upon a course of action. Nothing here is wildly challenging-although the quick-time-event combat scenarios do seem a bit more involved than in the past. Like its predecessors, this is an adventure that calls for casual interaction with only a few rudimentary puzzles to solve along the way.
In A New Frontier, Javy, Kate, Gabe, and Marianna are completely authentic in the way that they act and talk among each other, drawing you into their plight and earning much-deserved empathy. Telltale has come a long way from the melodrama of past seasons, which revolved around the too-often-hysterical Kenny. There's illicit yet unspoken romance, hatred between family members, and ghosts of past transgressions lurking beneath the surface. Where the first two seasons of the walking dead were mostly about forming familial ties with strangers you meet along the way, here we’re dropped into the middle of a traditional family with preexisting issues stepmom immediately whips out a joint to relieve the tension of life on the run. Where past seasons aimed to stay true to The Walking Dead’s comic book roots, A New Frontier's cutscenes employ notable cinematic flair. Once again, in their eyes, Javy failed to be there for his family when they needed him the most. Emotionally spent, Javy's brother David punches him in the face, followed by smack from his newly widowed mother. But traffic, due to the outbreak, stops him dead in his tracks. In the opening scene, Javy races to his brother's house to see their terminally ill father before he dies. Javier (Javy to his friends) is the new lead-a likable twentysomething and the black sheep of his family. Here we are introduced to the Garcia family, located on the West Coast.
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Episode one establishes a heady moral stew loaded with hard choices and heartbreak, and is one of the best additions to the series since it began in 2012.Ī New Frontier diverges from its two preceding seasons rather dramatically at times, rolling the clock back to the initial zombie outbreak. Yet even with all of these changes and scant undead creeps, A New Frontier's premier episode will feel familiar to fans of the series. Telltale Games kicks off the third season of its Walking Dead series by introducing a fresh cast of new characters-a logical start for a season dubbed "A New Frontier." The story's lens shifts focus across the country to peer into the lives of a struggling family, rather than the exploits of downtrodden survivors.