The shantytown environments all look the same and blood spatters look like they belong in the PlayStation 2 era. The cars that are scattered throughout the game are also uninspiring and seem colorless.
The Walking Dead series is a show that prides itself in having no two zombies look alike, but that passion for horrific costume design is not shared by Terminal Reality, as there are merely a handful of zombie character models. Graphically, the game looks deplorable for a current-gen game, with dull-looking zombies who are uncharacteristic of the television series and lifeless environments that do nothing to please the eye. The game feels more like a gas survival thriller than a zombie survival thriller, as you’ll find yourself hunting for gas more than hunting for zombies. Mainly, you drive from point A to point B (and by drive, I mean you’re looking at a loading screen with a map), stop to fight through a small horde of zombies in a shantytown to find gas, then rinse and repeat. There’s a point early in the game where it tells you to go around a flatbed truck, instead of just climbing over it (what the hell?).
For the most part, you only have one course to take, with the exception of the occasional fork in the road, which leads to the same destination anyway.
Unfortunately, the game isn’t open world and you’re led to your next objective by a large and intrusive onscreen compass. Terminal Reality took all of the things we hate about zombie survival games we’ve seen in the past and decided to throw them all into the game, such as Left 4 Dead’s repetitive gameplay, The War Z’s hammer-smashing zombies to death and the lack of character maneuverability seen in Resident Evil 5. Survival Instinct plays like a cheap Left 4 Dead knock-off, except there’s no multiplayer. You’ll also come across a few fellow survivors along the way, but none are memorable characters. I would have liked a more engaging, captivating story arc for the game, as we have only been teased with Daryl and Merle’s past in the series. While the zombie virus is just beginning to take over the South, you spend most of the game trying to reunite with your brother, Merle, but it won’t take you very long, as you will complete the game in less than six hours. The story isn’t nearly as good as I thought it would be, taking you to pre-Zombie Apocalypse Atlanta through the eyes of Daryl Dixon, as his father has just been swarmed by zombies. In fact, Activision and Terminal Reality should be ashamed of themselves for using the licensing of the incredible The Walking Dead series to produce a game of such poor quality to steal money away from unsuspecting fans of the series.
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