Based on the award winning series of Robert Kirkman – The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: Season One on mobile has been released to the market by Telltale Games with the filmmaker’s permission for fan service purpose. That does not mean the game will follow the same motifs of the original series, instead, the game has completely changed the initial story and replaced it with a new scene as well as new character lines. With that wise decision, the game has become globally successful.

The Walking Dead series is probably a suitable brand and an excellent theme to arouse a player’s inner fear of the walking undead. That leads to the win of this game. However, that is not the only reason why the game is surprisingly successful, realistic graphics, fascinated and varied gameplay as well as meaningful message are also outstanding features that make the game extremely attractive, especially for the fans. Moreover, the game is only 1.6 gigabyte, it does not require high specifications to be able to play and it is even free to download so it is easier for everyone to access and experience it.

Fast and thrilling game rhythm, dramatic action scenes

Unlike the cinematic version, The Walking Dead: Season One for handsets has very fast and thrilling gameplay. As you log into the game, just 10 minute after the intro, our main character – Lee Everett has already faced the walking corpse. After that, when looking for help, Lee meets his savior – Clementine, a 9 years old girl who lives nearby. Then, the journey of the two officially start with countless difficulties and dangers waiting ahead.

Belonging to the category of interactive adventure, players will interact with NPC – non playable characters and environment by a circle show up on screen. After that, players are required to make decisions in a short period of time. Each decision the player makes will lead to different results that they will discover during play. Sometimes you will have to face off the zombies and the player has to quickly find a way out of that situation, that is when eye-catching action scenes happen. You will experience kicking the zombie in its face and it is not gonna kill it, unless you shoot into the head or even smash its head to break with an axe. All these will happen on your phone, in front of your face, terrifying but also extremely dramatic!

New story, new characters, but keep the same core values

The plot change is the game’s biggest feature. It would have nothing to argue about if the game follows the original story of The Walking Dead. It was because Telltale decided. Unlike the cinematic version, The Walking Dead: Season One for handsets has very fast and thrilling gameplay. As you log into the game, just 10 minute after the intro, our main character – Lee Everett has already faced the walking corpse. After that, when looking for help, Lee meets his savior – Clementine, a 9 years old girl who lives nearby. Then, the journey of the two officially start with countless difficulties and dangers waiting ahead.

The game’s core values are highlighted because it requires the player to make a decision, it could be a conversation with another NPC or actions with the zombie. Tolerance, help, selfishness or lies all depend on the player’s choice. The NPCs will remember the player’s actions or words as Lee Everret and then bring the story to many different endings. Lee and Clementine’s journey highlights the individual characteristics and experience of each character in the player’s mind. You will realise, in order to survive in such a bloodthirsty post-apocalyptic world, they all have to possess qualities such as solidarity, courage and sometimes determination and ruthlessness.

Mechanism to interact of the game

In the game, player plays the role of Lee Everret, a native of Macon, who are being taken to prison for his murder. Players will touch on circles shown up on screen – like  hints to interact with the environment as well as other characters. Most of the time, the game displayed a 3rd viewing angle so the player can view the post-apocalyptic world more realistic. However, in some dramatic action scenes, the screen gives the player a first-person perspective to feel it most authentically.

Besides, game publisher Telltale recommends players to use headphones or earphones to experience the game much better because they will listen to other NPC and respond accordingly. Time limit for decision making also makes the game speed faster and helps players get along with Lee. Sometimes players only have a mere seconds to make a decision before zombies rush in. Extremely realistic and thrilling, isn’t it?

An amazing and meaningful game that teach a life lesson

The Walking Dead: Season One is really a good example of not all games based on movies are of poor quality. With unique characters and personalities such as Lee – a steadfast and experienced person, Clementine is a little girl with extraordinary courage and other extremely complex character lines. We see emerging on this path of survival, the zombie apocalypse is just secondary matter. The “human” disaster is actually the most dangerous thing, instead of unite and living, the doubts and negativity that people have for each other, is what slowly killing teammates and themselves.Telltale Games themself successfully broke out of the original plot of the movie and created a game full of lessons and philosophy that made many fans convinced and love it even more than the original The Walking Dead series. The game has light graphics but beautiful and realistic enough with an interesting and quiet game style. Not any games can possibly teach a player a life lesson from a virtual world.

Pay-to-play game but is it worth it?

The Walking Dead: Season One MOD APK even though it is free to download and experience, it is a pay-to-play game. But the question is “Is it worth it?” The answer is absolutely yes. It takes a small charge of approximately 5 dollar to unlock an episode, so in total 25 bucks to play all episodes of the game, including the special one. Frankly, it is an acceptable price for a game of this quality compared to the story and the values it brings. For zombie fans and especially The Walking Dead fans, this game is a “must-try”, but for people who does not know or like zombies, it is totally worth of time to experience it even just the first, free-to-play episode of the game