I played Season 1 this year for its 10th anniversary and thought I should play through the whole series because I never played Season 3 and 4. So I played them back to back and realised what a step back A New Frontier is. It is still a good story-driven zombie movie with decisions but suffers from some major problems. For example, I don't get how they took us Clementine as a playable character. Playing Clem in Season 2 was a fantastic change from the genius predecessor. Now we play a completely new character, Javi, which you never get the same feelings for. They try to get us involved with his family and his background with some flashbacks but when we played Season 2 we knew Clem. We've been there. We experienced what shaped her and how she became what she is. Also, the story is at least okay. It is all betrayal and revenge. We get like three locations with some variances within them. If you think about the former games there was much more travel and diversity. Besides the well-known characters and Mariana, no one is really that likeable. The enemies are forgettable. And the worst is that there are 3-4 answers that are totally different from the buttons you click. Most of the time they are more aggressive as the decisions suggest making me ALT + F4 the game and play all of it again from the last autosave. There aren't even that many choices that were really hard to decide on. If you are into those "decision games" and most importantly into zombie stories this is still a cool game and I really needed to play it because let's see what changes it brings in the Final chapter.

Reviewed on Jun 05, 2022


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