The Walking Dead: Season 3

When the family is all you have left…how far will you go to protect it? After society was ripped apart by undead hands, pockets of civilization emerge from the chaos. But at what cost? Can the living be trusted on this new frontier? As Javier, a young man determined to find the family taken from him, you meet a young girl who has experienced her own unimaginable loss. Her name is Clementine, and your fates are bound together in a story where every choice you make could be your last. Walking Dead fans looking to jump back into Clementine’s story with this new game should temper their expectations. The player only takes control of her in flashback chapters that do not affect the overall arc of the story or any relationship with a character in it. Her retrospectives are nonetheless harrowing. A flashback with Jane, the Season Two heroine who leads Clementine through quavering puberty into her steely young adulthood, was legitimately sorrowful, and emblematic of The Walking Dead’s remorseless prosecution of its story, allowing only the perfunctory objection from the player. In the present day, the story is told through Javier, alienated from his family by his athletic celebrity and some vague, implied disgrace. The establishing sequence quickly connects Javier to the zombie apocalypse and then puts him on the run with Kate, his sister-in-law, and her two teenage kids.