Review: TellTale's The Walking Dead S2E2; "A House Divided"
Wed, March 5, 2014 
I was wrong about The Walking Dead Season 2. Even though the first episode was incredibly slow, blandly written and incredibly short, the 400 days DLC WAS useful, but I suspect for not long. Any who, "A House Divided" was absolutely incredible from start to finish. It packed a punch. It was incredibly tense and suspenseful just like The Walking Dead should be in any of the mediums.
"A House Divided" starts right off the bat by developing the characters with the fallout from the first episode. Clementine's choice at the end of the previous episode immediately comes into play and you must fend off and escape walkers until you are eventually trapped in a shed. For example, I chose Pete to die in the previous episode so I was trapped with Nick inside this shed to wait off the walkers. It's here that Nick's character is really fleshed out as he spends time alone with Clementine wondering if he is going to die. The player can choose to talk Nick up or let him be ultimately depressed. This is one example of how the episode gradually builds upon the characters we met first, but once Clementine and Nick attempt to escape, it's all tense from there-on-out.
Telltale was smart to bring their A-Game to this incredibly tense episode. As I wasn't impressed with the previous episode, I was initially waiting for the game-changer they teased in the trailer for this episode ("I thought you were dead!") but instead, they present plenty of action sequences and character building in the process to combat the anticipation (which was quite predictable). In fact, quite a bit of this episode was a little predictable but there were enough swerves to make it feel fresh. I may go as far as saying this is the best and most perfect episode of The Walking Dead yet. It consists of humor, action, drama, suspense and well, zombies.
There's not much to dive into without going into major spoiler territory, and that's why I sort of dislike reviewing TellTale games. But the content is amazing and definitely worthy of your five dollars for this episode. This episode may have been short, but it felt lengthy with an incredibly consistent pace. There weren't any scenes that were rushed through nor were there any extendedly boring scenes. I'm going to stand corrected and admit to being wrong, and now I look forward to The Wolf Among Us AND The Walking Dead and hopefully Telltale can keep up this monthly rotary schedule.
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