OVERKILL's The Walking Dead Reviews
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.
OVERKILL's The Walking Dead is a fun title that is bogged down by a combination of bugs, lack of sign-posting, and confusing design decisions.
Overkill's The Walking Dead is nothing but a random zombie shooter.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Overall, Overkill's The Walking Dead is a game that got better after release. It is currently priced at $60 USD. To me, this is a really high price considering how little you can do in the game. Each area is basically rinse and repeat of different missions. Currently, the game is available for PC, with an Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 release set for next year in February. It may be a good idea to wait for a sale on this one unless you really want to play the Walking Dead. Personally, if this game was like Dying Light, with the open world feels and different areas set up in that manner, then this would be a 10 rated game. As it is instanced areas of stop walkers from invading your base, to find the family, to oh the family is raiding you, it seems pretty much the same.
It's fun when you cooperate with friends and get out of the crowd of zombies by sneaky ways. But due to the dull shooting experience and repeated puzzles, it hardly ever satisfy me.
Review in Chinese | Read full review
Thanks god at least it's 30$ which still doesn't worth it. I sincerely advice you to not buy OVERKILL's The Walking Dead, there is nothing to enjoy even for die hard fans of The Walking Dead.
Review in Persian | Read full review
I really wanted to like this game, and after the beta I was hoping there would be more to it than what they were testing. Unfortunately, there's not, and there's absolutely no way I could recommend buying this game. If you could pick it up for £10, sure, but four times that? No way.
Overkill's The Walking Dead squanders whatever little potential it had with poor presentation, unenjoyable gameplay, technical issues, and simply poor design.
Overkill’s The Walking Dead is a new game from Payday series Developer, but this time you don't need to rob a bank, because you must survive from zombies over and over again. Overkill software has a good experience on creating a game base on "team-work" and now in Overkill’s The Walking Dead they use the best of their experience to create a game that team-work is everything on it and you must cooperate with your other 3 team member to survive from hordes of deadly zombies. The game has a very good start and art style and levels designs are very nice. Also the game has a good replay value that is a very important element for a team-based first person action game with countless zombies. Along with all of these good aspects, There are also weak points in many parts of the game. Many technical issues, long loading pages, lack of enough differential between characters and weak progress system with some not necessary limits hurt the game a lot and could be so much better and more polished. In the end i must say that if you interest in Co-op first person action games with so many zombies (Like Left for Dead), Overkill’s The Walking Dead is a game that worth trying with your friends.
Review in Persian | Read full review
The Walking Dead is a franchise with such massive potential in the video game space, and Overkill's The Walking Dead shares much of that potential. Blasting through the higher difficulty levels with friends is great fun, and the initial few hours are a pleasure, but once you get into the meat of the game and its myriad of glaring issues, it quickly becomes apparent that this game is not living up to its own potential.
A game that feels like it was rushed out of development. It falls well short of potential due to lack of content, a few poor design decisions, and bugs.
Overkill's The Walking Dead fortunately isn't the second coming of TWD: Survival Instinct, but in its current form, it's miles away from being a high-quality cooperative action nonetheless.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
While the game can be fun at times, Overkill's The Walking Dead is bogged down by technical issues, repetitive side content, and the inability to have fun while playing solo.
Overkill’s The Walking Dead is often faithful to the series in all the worst ways.
Overkill's The Walking Dead fails to deliver a compelling and entertaining co op experience based around a zombie apocalypse, it also suffers a lot from technical issues. it has so many flaws that even massive updates can't solve them anytime soon.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Although I have doubts that Overkill's The Walking Dead will last as long as PAYDAY 2 did (an update last week concluded its five-year story, which ended in a bold White House heist) I expected much more of this game, because in my case, it is not worth 50€ of Steam, for me, it would be a game of 20, 25€ at most.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
OVERKILL’s The Walking Dead is a fun, chaotic take on the team-based horde and exploration genre made popular by Left 4 Dead. Sure, the lack of voice chat in-game is crippling within this genre, with the only substitute being to use Steam Chat or a third-party method – making this as cumbersome as the Nintendo Switch voice-chat options! However, there is nothing more satisfying than mindlessly slaughtering waves of zombies with a bunch of friends! I’m not much of a multiplayer gamer but if I have to play one, I much prefer cooperative ones to pvp. If you enjoy this type of game it’s worth picking up, if only to let some frustration out at the end of the day by beheading walkers with your machete.
Overkill’s The Walking Dead is a difficult and cooperatively heavy adventure that values teamwork and collaboration above anything else. The story is limited but makes up for it with challenging cooperative action. Upgrading your character and expanding your camp allows for a steady stream of rewards as you inch closer to completing each mission makes every step closer to the finale a worthwhile endeavor. The difficulty can be unfair at times but Overkill’s The Walking Dead has a solid edifice to become something great.
Overkill’s The Walking Dead has some great, challenging gameplay that’s held back by lots of technical issues and poor design choices. It has the potential to be a great co-op action game, but at the moment it’s better at frustrating than it is at entertaining.