OVERKILL's The Walking Dead Reviews

OVERKILL's The Walking Dead is ranked in the 8th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
No Recommendation / Blank
Nov 15, 2018

There are flashes of promise in this first-person shooter, but this is a mostly uninspired, unpolished waste of an opportunity.

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55 / 100
Nov 15, 2018

The Walking Dead gets the zombies and the theme just right, but everything else is a mess.

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David Jagneaux
Top Critic
5.3 / 10.0
Nov 14, 2018

Co-op zombie-splattering will never be devoid of fun, but Overkill's The Walking Dead is lacking in both the series' storytelling and technical polish.

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Metro GameCentral
GameCentral
Top Critic
5 / 10
Nov 9, 2018

It channels the grit and desperation of the TV show well enough, but the prolonged development has ended in a co-op shooter that feels outdated and unexceptional.

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4.5 / 10.0
Nov 14, 2018

A deep progression system isn't enough to save these survivors from repetitive and poorly balanced missions

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3 / 10
Nov 13, 2018

Overkill's The Walking Dead is a collection of poorly conceived ideas and uninspired gameplay, neither of which help its lifeless narrative and repetitive missions.

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TheSixthAxis
Thom Hughes
Top Critic
4 / 10
Nov 20, 2018

Overkill's The Walking Dead could have been something special, but it finds itself dragged down by poorly implemented and designed systems. There's flashes of what could have been, and there's a chance that Starbreeze will turn this game around in the coming months to rebuild from a poor launch, but as it stands I couldn't even recommend this game to the most hardcore of The Walking Dead fans.

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8.8 / 10.0
Nov 15, 2018

OVERKILL's The Walking Dead is a complete disaster, a game that doesn't work from any perspective. Its narrative is terrible, its progression system is pointless and its gameplay is repetitive.

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6 / 10.0
Nov 17, 2018

The zombies are slow, clumsy, repeated and simpletons. These adjectives are also valid for this game of the The Walking Dead universe, in charge of the creators of Payday, a definitely better game. You can expect updates and improvements in this first person shooter.

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6.5 / 10.0
Nov 13, 2018

Although an improvement over The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, this new game feels unoriginal and non particularly engaging.

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Unscored
Nov 13, 2018

The game manages to facilitate some really involving moments, even if it doesn’t necessarily provide them.

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6 / 10.0
Nov 18, 2018

A gorgeous looking co-op zombie shooter that's plagued with a horde of technical issues and diseased-ridden AI, Overkill's The Walking isn't a terrible game but compared to more polished cooperative shooters, it just comes up short in so many ways.

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61 / 100
Nov 19, 2018

I enjoyed Overkill’s The Walking Dead but perhaps more as a concept. Playing with a friend makes the experience much more enjoyable; however, the price point is a concern given all the issues I had with the game. To this day, it doesn’t feel complete.

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Nov 15, 2018

Overkill's The Walking Dead is an ambitious online multiplayer experience. It nails the aesthetic of The Walking Dead universe. However, it struggles in almost every other department. Bugs and game-halting instances have been very apparent in the near 20 hours spent with it.

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6 / 10.0
Nov 14, 2018

Overkill's The Walking Dead is deeply flawed and bland. Its gameplay feels generic, sometimes bringing out anomalous and umpleasant situations.

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Nov 14, 2018

Game design and gameplay issues hold this one back.

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5 / 10
Nov 20, 2018

Clearly the game gives a "unfinished" feeling. OVERKILL'S The Walking have good ideas like horde system, customisation and skills for character et post-apocalyptic atmosphere in level design. Sadly, Artificial Intelligence is catastrophic, the game is repetitive and loading times are disastrous.

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Justin Woo
Top Critic
6 / 10.0
Nov 13, 2018

Overkill's The Walking Dead is pretty, but doesn't do anything that we haven't seen before in a number of other post-apocalyptic first- or third-person games.

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3 / 5.0
Nov 9, 2018

Arguably the biggest flaw with Overkill's The Walking Dead is just how generic and bland it feels. With a popular brand like The Walking Dead, you'd expect there to be a bit more flair or pizazz when it comes to world-building and characterization, but there's nothing like that here.

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Nov 12, 2018

Overkill’s The Walking Dead certainly stokes the player’s despair, but not the sort that its developers intended.

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