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The Walking Dead: Season 2: Episode 4 - Amid the Ruins
Score: 88%
Publisher: Telltale Games
Developer: Telltale Games
Media: Download/1
Players: 1
Genre: Adventure

Previously on: The Walking Dead:
The Walking Dead: Season 2: Episode 4 - Amid the Ruins starts off right after having to make a drastic decision. One of your party was being bitten by a walker and you had the choice to either let her be taken or to cut off her arm in the hopes of stopping the infection before it got to the rest of the body. You will see the immediate consequences of this choice, but that is only the start of this episode.

When we last left little Clementine, she and her group were trying to escape from the hardware store by using the walker horde as cover. Thanks to Jane's plan of smearing themselves with walker blood, the walkers themselves aren't taking much notice in your friends. Unfortunately, not everyone will make it out of the thrall alive, and your first mission will be to regroup and figure out where to go next.


Rendezvous:
The Walking Dead: Season 2: Episode 4 - Amid the Ruins lets Clem get to know Jane a lot more than in the previous episode. The trek to the Civil War exhibit (the planned rendezvous location) is a bit of a hike and it is during that jaunt that we start to learn a good bit more about Jane's history, including the fact that she used to have a sister. Jane's time on the road with her little sister shapes a lot of the loner's decisions, and some of those decisions might put the group at risk before the episode is done.

When Clementine, Jane and Rebecca finally get to the exhibit, they find a few more of their group waiting, and one of them isn't too happy with how your final choice back in Episode 3 played out. In fact, this particular friend becomes very withdrawn - which isn't good considering everyone is going to be needed when Rebecca starts to go into labor (because things aren't bad enough already).

Before that particular ball gets to rolling though, Clementine and Jane get some more together-time as they go out looking for more of their friends, and they find them - barricaded in an old trailer surrounded by walkers. Jane teaches Clem a few more survival techniques and, yup you guessed it, you are forced to make another hard choice.


Delivery Time:
While The Walking Dead: Season 2: Episode 4 - Amid the Ruins starts off with getting everyone together, it becomes apparent that Rebecca is about to give birth, and the episode changes gears as Clementine is sent out yet again, this time to explore the areas around the battlegrounds for a safe place to hold up and stay out of sight.

While you don't spend the entire episode stuck to Jane's hip, this is another part where you will spend time getting to know her more, and it becomes pretty obvious what drives Jane. The question then becomes how much you can trust her after everything you've learned, not to mention after realizing what she thinks about how much of a liability the other members of the group are.


Next Time on: The Walking Dead:
Before The Walking Dead: Season 2: Episode 4 - Amid the Ruins wraps up, Rebecca's labor will end, the group will start to make their way to a new place, and major characters will die, but then again, this is The Walking Dead - everyone dies eventually right?

The next episode, No Going Back wraps up this season, and it will be interesting to see how it all plays out. Last season, we saw Lee sacrifice himself for Clementine, but then again, we saw him get bitten earlier and we knew it was only a matter of time. How will Clem and the group's new dynamics play out in this final bit of story? What new choices will be thrown at us before the last episode concludes, and how will your previous choices affect those around you?


-J.R. Nip, GameVortex Communications
AKA Chris Meyer

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