Amaris Morgan

This movie was full of potential. If they’d had the guts to tackle the real world issues that we face and explore a timeline where the United States breaks out in a modern civil war, it could have been ground breaking. But they didn’t. We are never told what they are fighting over, which side is “good” or “bad”. At one point they say; “The western forces are moving forward.” Who are the western forces? What do they fight for? WHY SHOULD I CARE? We don’t know why the president is a ‘dictator’. We don’t know what the different rebel groups stand for and it is nearly impossible to distinguish them from one another. Almost all of them copy the army/military uniform and they all have heavy weaponry. All we know is that Lee is a coveted journalist and is traveling with Sammy (the old man), Joel, and Jessie (the new photographer). At one point Sammy gets shot and bleeds out while he’s driving the seemingly bullet proof car. How did he get shot while no one else did? Who knows and quite frankly who cares. He’s an old fat man in an apocalyptic situation. I don’t know about you but that’s the last type of person that I’d want with me when I could potentially be getting shot at. In the beginning, Lee kind of ribs Jessie for not getting a shot of two men being tortured. Jessie then asks “Would you take a picture if I was getting shot?” Or something along those lines, either way later on Jessie starts taking pictures of people getting shot and dying and at the end she gets a pic of Lee getting shot. But I find it confusing how she was freaking out at the tortured men but then acts like taking pic of people dying is nothing. She saw someone get shot and brushes it off but then freaks out about a mass grave?? I feel like it’s so inconsistent.

At first I thought the game was complicated and hard to grasp but as time went on I came to enjoy both the gameplay and the story. I understand why some people find this game boring l. But for me it's perfect.