Quoted from PanzerFreak:

Wow. That's too bad. Like you said I hope pressure from the pinball community can make Stern reconsider. I think that a vast majority of licenses pins need audio from the theme its based on or custom voice work by one of the actors to create attachment with the player. Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Metallica, Simpsons and Family Guy all benefited greatly from having voice work from actors / musicians that are attached to those themes. ACDC is the only game I can think off that pulled off voice work well (Steve Ritchie did a great job) enough without someone attached to the theme. Games like Batman and The Avengers both suffered in part because lines from the films actors are not in the game to create that attachment. When playing Lord of the Rings and hearing a Gimli callout (or anyone else) you know its him. Imagine if it was some random dude? lol. Personally, that would take away from what makes LOTR so great.

Quoted from Rarehero:

Are any of the human characters THAT iconic to TWD? In this case, I don't think it's a gamekiller IMO.

Quoted from sammiesguys:

You can have a simple narrative, and still incorporate the characters. Rick is easily an iconic charater on the show. You could help Rick clear the prison yard (which is what he does anyway). His picture is featured prominently on the side of the pro. To me, if he's not in the game, it's simply getting much closer to being a generic zombie game with nods to the show, and not a TWD themed pinball machine.
It might not bother some people, but not having show characters will bother me. It also may be a fun game, and appeal to casual players. That's fine, I just won't be particularly interested in buying one.

Quoted from e4mafia:

I added a comment, stating how much I liked the dots, the music, and the play field layout, but that the voice work needs some serious improvements, and not only was my comment removed within a few minutes, but I can no longer comment on their page. WOW.

Quoted from crlush:

I just cant figure out why they plaster AMC on the machine and put the characters all over the cabinet and backbox and then not have one of there voices on the game? I could see not wanting to pay them to record special callouts, but they could have used the announcers voice and picked out some good drops from the show. To me if you were not going to use character voices from the show, mambe they should have went with the comic book theme instead. I was pumped when I heard the rumors were true that Stern was making Twd, even more after seeing pics, but after seeing the videos I can't figure out what happened? Still have high hopes but running out of steam.