When the group finally arrives at their destination, they focus on finding a boat.  Unfortunately, a man is stalking them and communicating with them on the radio.  They also have to go to a town called Crawford, a place so focused on survival that children, the sick and the elderly are shot on sight.

This is when we see just how far some citizens are willing to go to survive.  Partway through the game the characters have to go to Crawford and, spoiler alert, everyone there is dead.  It shows that you can’t create the perfect survival race and when going through Crawford we get an idea of how the citizens must have lived.  One part I really liked were the doctor tapes where he tries to convince a pregnant woman to abort her baby by telling her that she’ll be kicked out if she doesn’t.  We also discover the back-story of a new character named Molly.  What I don’t get is why the doctor would film such incriminating evidence against himself (if you play the game you’ll understand).

This game is not simplistic with anything and that includes cowardice.  The character of Ben is not well liked and I was once of the same sentiment.  He has a tendency to make bad decisions.  When he and Clementine were surrounded by walkers he ran.  After reading the character articles on tvtropes.org, I realized that I was being too hard on him.  Remember my Rule of Rose review where I called the main character, Jennifer, timid?  You may think I hated her but I thought her character was well-written and very realistic.  She was a little orphan girl who didn’t have the emotional capacity to stand up to the people tormenting her and it had disastrous results.  Ben is a guy too old for a guardian to handle the situation, unlike Clementine and Duck, and too young for the emotional maturity to handle it himself, unlike Lee and Kenny.  Yes I am aware that Molly is younger than Ben and able to handle herself with the walkers but she had people depending on her.  Ben doesn’t have anyone that needs him.  I know that many of us that watch the series fantasize that we’re going to be like Darryl or Michonne but the reality is, if we were put into a situation like this, more likely we’re turn out to be Ben.

The game play is the same as it’s always been.  You go through the storyline and make choices throughout the game.  You can explore the scene and gather items to use later.  During fighting scenes, you have to press the right button to survive.  At this point I wonder if I shouldn’t just copy/paste this paragraph instead of writing it out each time.

This game is intriguing and addictive.  I give it 8 out of 10; a fine addition to the episodic video game.