10 Awful Video Games Based On TV Shows

7. The Walking Dead: Survival Instincts

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Developers Terminal Reality weren’t having much luck with licenses before releasing what would turn out to be their last game (the company dissolved in 2013), having delivered some missed opportunities in Ghostbusters: The Video Game and Kinect Star Wars.

Their swan song, Survival Instincts, was an out and out prequel, allowing players to take control of the Walking Dead’s resident badass Daryl Dixon before he hooked up with Rick and co. Despite boasting one or two neat touches – hunting for jerry cans at derelict roadside stops made you really feel like a post apocalyptic wanderer – the game was pretty busted up, with graphics that looked rushed, boring third person combat, and a story that couldn’t even be saved by actors Norman Reedus and Michael Rooker lending their voices to some iffily rendered versions of themselves.

Seeing as Telltale’s far superior The Walking Dead: Season One was released a year before this, it’s not hard to see why the aforementioned was more popular.

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