The game offers plenty for returning players as well, though, in addition to some familiar faces from the comics and television show as well. Starting with Javi as a brand new character allows new players to get acclimated in the world without worrying that they’re missing anything important.

“Ties that Bind” is a great opening act to the season for both new players and longtime fans alike. Interpersonal drama is soon set aside, however, when the dead start rising. Javi is established as kind of a screw-up, and tensions with his brother run high. We open on him belatedly joining the rest of his family for the death of their father. “Javi” is a disgraced former baseball player who was banned from professional play over a gambling scandal. The Walking Dead: A New Frontier picks up Clementine’s story following the brutal events of Season two, but first it loops back to the first days of the zombie apocalypse in order to introduce its new protagonist, Javier Garcia, in a two-part season opening: “Ties that Bind”.

Its breakout success paved the way for other high-profile franchise partnerships, such as Game of Thrones, Batman, or the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy, but fans’ investment in the survival story of Clementine may mean the newly begun third season of The Walking Dead is Telltale’s most anticipated game yet. The Walking Dead wasn’t Telltale Games’ first episodic adventure series, but its 2012 adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s iconic zombie apocalypse comic series (and subsequent television show) was definitely a turning point for the studio. The Walking Dead: A New Frontier is a masterful and ambitious continuation of Telltale’s flagship series for new players and series fans alike.

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