The journey of Telltale Games has been just as harrowing as that of its characters in their The Walking Dead adventure game series. While Telltale had been making games for nearly a decade prior, it was 2012’s The Walking Dead: Season One (Free) that took the video game world by storm and made the developer a household name. Their brand of adventure gaming mixed with quick-time action sequences and a cast of compelling characters and stories made that first Walking Dead game a massive hit. Telltale followed with The Walking Dead: Season Two (Free) and a third season titled The Walking Dead: A New Frontier ($4.99), but also applied a similar formula to pretty much any IP they could get their hands on. Cranking out games with too little time to fully develop them and with a staff that was running on fumes culminated in a massive shift last year that saw a new CEO brought in, a reduction in staff, and a renewed approach to how they’d be making games going forward. The first product of this “new" Telltale is the final chapter in the game that brought them their success, The Walking Dead: The Final Season. They’ve taken their time with this one, and it features all sorts of fresh elements to help it break out of that rather stale mold of the well-worn Telltale formula: A new graphic novel-esque art style, a new over-the-shoulder camera view, unscripted combat encounters, a more open world to explore, and (thankfully) a new game engine. Over the p...