Full Throttle Remastered

Developer: Look here.. This game is about as old as Captain Crunch cereal. It's good for a few bites, but then the sugar starts to hurt your teeth. I've been waiting for the price of this to drop to a couple of dollars so I can pick it up for years. I already paid full price for the game twice before. I'm not forking over a bunch of cash for it again. I know, you don't care about my single purchase. Well here's the scoop, chief. You've got a whole generation of kids out there who WOULD pick this game up the first time. if it was only a few bucks. Get the picture?

Look. It is awesome. Monkey Island style (you know, crazy point and click logics, smart mouth fight style, no action, just mind puzzles of the comic type). In a full Mad Max story style. It isn't that long, but I ended playing tons of times back in the day... It is the kind of game you replay after six-months so you don't remember the puzzles, and you have a lot of fun over and over again

First off, I don't like point and click games. Full Throttle is a lot different, though, and boy did it make an impression! I got a demo of it back in the mid-90s that ends right after you get out of the bar -> fight the other biker on the road -> move the jump ramp into position. Now I get to finish the whole game! I think it really got me when I couldn't figure out how to get past the barkeep until you learn how to target his nosering. The cutscene of the main character grabbing the barkeep's nose and ring and slamming it into the bar just hit a chord with me (it was a crummy day anyway, and there was a bully around that time but no nose ring...) Plus I dunno why, but I started laughing maniacally while learning the controls as I kept accidentally (then purposefully) making a super-tough biker dude continually say: "I'm not putting my lips on that!" I'm glad this is here, I never really like Curse of Monkey Island. My demo copy got thrown out because the disk got infected (unofficial CD with a bunch of shareware demos I and a friend swapped back and forth because he had a CD-RW drive while mine was just a standard CD-R(ead-only)). What memories - that CD also introduced me to Wolfenstein 3D, BioMenace, Monster Bash, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, and eventually a little game called Doom!

Great remaster of the interactive cartoon Full Throttle. Full Throttle is a game in the style of 'Day of the Tentacle'. It has nice cartoonish graphics and an original story. Basically you are the biker Ben who gets caught up in a complot around a motor cycle company. The game is point and click but in the original there was one, I found rather annoying, action sequence (I assume it is also in this version but I am not there yet). The graphics are nice cartoonish and in this remastered version, of course, in a higher resolution. 3D cell shaded objects are renderered on top of the backgrounds. I think the 3D objects looks absolutely great in this version. I played through 33% through this version this evening (I played the old version several times in my life so I sort of still remembered most solutions somewhat). The puzzles are not extremely difficult but I wouldn't call them easy either if you play it for the first time. It has great music especially in the part with the welder (which now also plays when you are in the main menu). Double fine did another great job on this game.

...because you will finish this game full throttle. That's both good and bad. There aren't really any puzzles or difficult conversations to have. BUT! It doesn't matter. If you see this game as a short film in which you can occasionally play, then you're not far off. You play as the biker Ben, who's the leader of the Polecats biker gang. After being framed for a murder, Ben is off to free his gang, clear his name and save the daughter of the victim. This is all done in a "tough biker" way, and it's great. Using brute force where in any other adventure game you would use logic or intellect is a nice fresh way of playing, but also fits the character. The music, the sound effects, the great voice acting, it all comes together in amazing presentation. The game has a steady pace because of the forementioned description, and that's the only issue I have with it: it's over before you know. A sequel was announced but cancelled, but who knows, with all of the kickstarters and of course, this succesful remaster, what will the future bring? There's so much potential left regarding story and setting, it would be a shame to not do anything with it. Do yourself a favor and play with the original graphics. The new ones aren't bad or anything, it just lessens the old-school experience.