I recently wrote what i think of them in a recent "Most overrated games ever etc" thread, so i'll just copy that. I'll add though that i've played a lot of them as some been available in the past as Games with Gold offerings. I recently started their Back to the Future game, and what a spark contrast their early games were compared to post-Walking Dead ones. The game can be really boring due to some shody plot points, but they really tried in regards to gameplay. There's a lot of interesting puzzles that required the player to actually think, and big areas to explore with lots of things to interact with. Goes to show how Walking Dead changed their ways. Here's what i said in the aforementioned thread:
"How anyone can truly like them is beyond me. Dialogue is forced, there's more annoying characters than interesting ones. Gameplay is pretty much non existant. Story seems to be written on a "we'll think it up as we go" basis, with super contrived situations and choices that doesn't really matter. The graphics are just ugly and lazy. Animation is one of the worse i've ever seen in a game, and since watching people talking is pretty much what you'll be doing the entire game, there's no excuse for them being that bad. Just hire another animator, i've seen SFM videos better animated than these games, and they were not being paid. Then there's the crashes, constant stutters, corrupted saves, graphical and audio issues, etc. Their engine is trash, but i bet it's easy to program and they're too lazy to get out of their comfort zone to try a better engine. Even the latest version looks like shit and have the same technical issues. They're probably not good at optimizing it for different systems.
And i know they're a small studio. That's not a excuse for their laziness. There's a lot of small studios doing great things (like A4) simply because they care."
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