It is, of course, in no small part thanks to the fantastic voice acting, which again, surprises me for a game whose seeds are planted firmly in the Play Store soil. You see, the story is simple (you fight your way to your family after a zombie outbreak), but the characters are somehow rich. To me, it’s the story and the voice acting that really help push this game above and beyond its competition. Shame, as really, the graphics are just the tip of the great presentation iceberg. This is the first time I’ve been frustrated to the point of giving up by a game crashing on me. I review games as a job, so I play a lot of them. My main gripe with Into The Dead 2’s presentation is the fact that I experienced several crashes. It runs really well, too, for the most part: there are almost no framedrops, and the particle effects are very good. I’m very surprised that games can look this good on phones, but then again, phones are way more powerful than my first ever cellphone, a Motorola StarTac. Graphically, the game looks absolutely great, particularly considering its origins. First, though, let’s focus on what does meet the eye: the presentation. However, let’s not dismiss Into the Dead 2 just yet, because there’s more to this game than meets the eye. But rail shooters are a staple of the App Store, and I should have seen it coming. Not that that’s a bad thing: I actually think that ports of competent mobile games are totally fine, and sometimes are better suited to the way I choose to play on the Switch (mostly handheld). I’m not all that familiar with the franchise, upon further research, some of the decisions in that went into the making of the game show its mobile-gaming roots. I was not expecting Into the Dead 2 to be what it is: a rail shooter. So, what can a game do to stay fresh in what feels like a very tired sub-genre? Into the Dead 2 aims to find out. I’ve seen Negan so much that I feel like I know him better than I know some of my family. Actually, I’m lying: it feels like it’s been 2000 years. It seems like only yesterday that THE WALKING DEAD and 28 DAYS LATER revived the zombie trope for a new generation.