Jack Outside the Box

Off the back of its final episode, Season 1 of Telltale’s The Walking Dead game shot the developer into the stratosphere.   With numerous units sold, massive critical praise and a ton of winning nominations during award season, there was rightfully so much hype and expectation going into the continuation of Clementine’s story.   I make this point because I do wonder if the phenomenal success of the first season served to detriment the perspective people shared on the second season as a result. I think when you strike gold on your first swing, that fear and anticipation to do so a second time can actually cause you to lose a bit of that momentum, something which I feel summarizes Season 2 of The Walking Dead considerably. Developed and self-published by Telltale Games, the second season of The Walking Dead game was deployed across five episodic releases from December 2013 to August 2014. Its gameplay is presented through the point and click format with dialogue and key decisi...