Anybody looking for intriguing lore or fascinating backstory events will be disappointed - though I’d be surprised if anybody expected anything in the first place. Oh, and zombies wander around in between events. There’s not really much of a story going on, and certainly nothing vital enough to prove important to fans of the show. Merle is barely featured, which is a shame, because Rooker is the only one involved with the game who seems to be putting any effort in, while Norman Reedus murmurs his way through lines with all the enthusiasm of a comatose goldfish.
In reality, the story is more about how Daryl has to pick up dozens of fuel cans lying in the middle of the street.
A fitting opening gambit for a game that spends all six of its campaign’s hours hammering that feeling home with brutal dedication.Īttempting to act as a prequel of sorts to the AMC Walking Dead series, Survival Instinct claims to tell the story of Daryl and Merle Dixon, southern stereotypes and typically the only two characters on the show who aren’t thoroughly unbearable. The menu screen looks like it was cobbled together at the last minute, thrown into the game by developers in a hurry. A still image of Daryl, rendered in blocky textures with a distinct lack of detail on his visage as if he were a child’s doodle stuck on a fridge. The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct (PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U)įrom the moment the game’s opening menu appears, Survival Instinct sets the tone for what is to come. The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, however, isn’t one of those games. Sometimes, a game can look visually sub-par, be promoted poorly, and prepare us for a terrible experience, only to upset the playing field by being better than it has any right to be.
Life has a habit of surprising us, though. The sudden release date, coinciding with the return of the AMC television series, alongside tepid previews and visual evidence of a dated, unappealing experience, didn’t exactly set the scene for a classic licensed property to rival the likes of Telltale’s The Walking Dead. The brief trailer, in which no game footage was shown and two actors simply told fans to buy it, was a harsh clue that Daryl Dixon’s undead adventure might not be everything it could have been. “Merlenderl, in a game, what can be better than that?” mumbled The Walking Dead actor Michael Rooker, in a voice that betrayed a man who could easily recall a dozen things better than Survival Instinct.
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