Last month Skydance Interactive in collaboration with Skybound Entertainment launched The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners for PC VR headsets, receiving widespread acclaim in the process. While it’s the latest videogame linked to The Walking Dead franchise, there have been numerous others by Telltale Games and now Steam is offering one giant bundle for fans.
The Walking Dead – Ultimate Steam Bundle features 6 videogames + DLC for the price of £97.30 GBP – a 10% saving off – with all four seasons of Telltale’s The Walking Dead and then the new VR experience.
- Telltale’s The Walking Dead Season 1
- Telltale’s The Walking Dead Season 2
- Telltale’s The Walking Dead A New Frontier
- Telltale’s The Walking Dead The Final Season
- The Walking Dead: Michonne
- The Walking Dead: 400 Days (DLC)
- The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners Tourist Edition
Telltale’s The Walking Dead is a story about of young survivor Clementine as she grows up in this new nightmarish world. It’s a series built around making definitive choices, as Clementine weathers many threats and sees protectors come and go. You choose who she trusts, who she loves, who she hurts, and what she chooses to protect when everyone can’t be saved.
And then there’s The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners. VRFocus has covered this in-depth, saying in its review: “From the very beginning, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners offers a satisfying zombie experience that’s hard to match. Titles like Arizona Sunshine easily fill that need for straight-up arcade action, for when you want a living dead apocalypse with a bit more depth then The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is your new go-to videogame.”
The bundle features The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners Tourist Edition which has a couple of extras not included in the base videogame. You’ll get three unique weapon recipes: The Sheriff (revolver), The Judge (Bat) and The National (Knife), 7 collectable voodoo dolls, the soundtrack, and The Supernatural Skeptic’s Guide to New Orleans companion piece.
If you’re a big fan of The Walking Dead universe there’s also The Walking Dead: Our World, an augmented reality (AR) title for mobile devices. At some point this year VR developer Survios will be launching its version, The Walking Dead Onslaught to keep the zombie apocalypse alive. For further updates, keep reading VRFocus.
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners has a nice sense of realism to it even with it being a zombie apocalypse. You have a base of operations where all the crafting and resupplying takes place. From here you can venture out in the morning and then return at any time. It’s always night when you get back meaning you can’t travel again until you’ve slept and it’s morning again. Each day needs to be maximised as moving it on means more walkers and fewer supplies to find. As such, there’s a lot more strategy and forward-thinking required, this is no action arcade videogame running around with a badass shotgun.
In between all the guns, blood and gore, there are friendships and allegiances to form, some more important than others to the eventual outcome. This means The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners has plenty of twists and turns instore, as generally speaking siding with one group inevitably leads to killing the opposing group, so once you’ve made your decision it’s final. A good enough reason to venture back in for another blast to see how things turn out.
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