As a fan of the 5 original episodes of The Walking Dead game I am still trying to figure out how that piece of crap expanion 400 Days got the ratings it did, like a 9.0 here here on gamespot. It was nothing but a promo consisting of 5 commercials. Gamespot has a lot of ridiculously low rated games as well.

This should have been free since it's a teaser more than a game. This so-called "game", takes away characters and choices you care about while telling an incomplete and bland story in a 15 minutes or less. Any interest you may feel a hint of will be instantly followed by the story ending. It's what critics wrongly said of the first five episodes but without a good story. I doubt many who think they are 9.0 game will agree after they play it. This is like a little bonus you might get with a pre-order of season 2.

And what's up with this ridiculous Gamespot policy of not allowing enormously long rants to be posted? I don't like editing my post.

I love The Walking Dead game but 400 days is getting ridiculously high reviews. I think the reviewers are being blinded by their love of the first five episodes and are just excited to see something related to the game being released after so long. I don't think new players who play the first 5 episodes for the first time and then go straight to 400 days are going to agree with these ratings at all. That's what I did, and I suspect I would be more positive about this expansion if I had played the first 5 episodes when they came out months ago, but it's not even close to the others whatsoever as far as a game. The potential of the new cast is all that's there because you can't do much with story or choices in the exremely short time given. It's a huge understatement to just say this isn't as good as any of the first 5 episodes. The reviews mention it's too short, but most don't tell you just how much worse it is, or tell you how the idea of introducing 5+ characters in a very short episode made it impossible to create a game with any substance. 400 days is little more than a shallow teaser trailer that doesn't even feel lika a game. I wish they would have focused on making a longer episode and using one of the 5 stories while introducing the others by releasing trailers, which is basically all this is.