Like its visuals, The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct feels ugly from start to finish. From the lifeless world to the uninspired combat to the rudimental stealth, the entire experience feels just about as sterile and as by-the-numbers as licensed games get. Even worse, Activision's attempt at a Walking Dead game came just months after Telltales epic and critically lauded season 1 of its Walking Dead experience, and thus players were shown the exact two extremes of titles that can fall at either end of the licensed video game spectrum. Where one feels like a labour of love, the other plays like a heartless attempt to cash-in on the most popular TV show currently airing today. The absolute worst thing about Survival Instinct though isn't that it was terrible from start to finish, but that it actually featured a few original and seemingly interesting ideas that were hampered by the evidently rushed development time that plagues so many licensed games, and thus almost all of these ideas came out under-cooked in the finished product.
Josh has over 11 years of experience as a published writer, having worked nine of those years as a full-time content producer at WhatCulture. In that period he has created hundreds of articles, videos and podcast episodes for multiple WhatCulture channels, specialising in gaming, horror and film & TV. He now primarily works as a senior content producer and presenter on WhatCulture Gaming where he co-hosts the WhatCulture Gaming Podcast, a top 3 UK most listened to gaming podcast that he co-created in 2018. Over the years he has reviewed several high-profile gaming releases, covered industry events with on-site reporting, opined on breaking news, and even kicked off his interviewing career by chatting to childhood hero, Tommy Wiseau.
