The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct
The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct is a first-person action survival game that brings to life the authentic, heart-stopping horrors of the AMC hit TV series The Walking Dead. In the game, players assume the…
The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct is a shooter developed by Terminal Reality, released 19 March 2013 on Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 5.3 hrs to finish.
What The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct is
The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct is a shooter game developed by Terminal Reality and released in 2013. It was published by Activision. It is available on Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct is a first-person action survival game that brings to life the authentic, heart-stopping horrors of the AMC hit TV series The Walking Dead. In the game, players assume the role of the mysterious, crossbow-wielding survivor Daryl Dixon, brought to life by TV series star Norman Reedus, alongside his overbearing brother Merle, voiced by Michael Rooker.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, stealth and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Walking Dead series
The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct is the second of 35 entries we hold in the The Walking Dead series. It arrived 11 months after The Walking Dead. The next entry was The Walking Dead: 400 Days in 2013. Its critic score of 30 is 40 points below the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Ch 2: Retribution at 85.
How it was received
The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 40 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 5.3 hrs.
What it launched against
The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct launched on 19 March 2013, within three weeks of BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Age of Empires II HD. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Age of Empires II HD.
Official trailer
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