Full Throttle Remastered

I always wanted to play Full Throttle when it first came out, but never had the means to do so...sadly, I should have left it as the game that never was. Years later I'm presented with the chance to play the new and improved HD version! Luckily you can toggle from the new HD graphics to the original, as the beautiful art and animation of the past has been marred in this conversion. Plagued with palette rotation animation being removed, characters overlapping parts of the backgrounds that they shouldn't, backs of collars sitting in front of characters necks, and computer screen text that goes off the computer screen have all been added for your viewing discomfort. Sadly though, the poor attempt to roll Full Throttle in glitter hasn't changed the fact that it just wasn't that good. ALL of the mini games and a good deal of the puzzles are just plain terrible AND that's before you hit the final act where all of the "puzzles" are clicking through options on a computer trying to find the right option before you run out of time and have to do it again...followed up with ANOTHER click through the options on a computer before you run out of time and have to do it again! Shows they were just plain out of game play ideas by the end...which is sad though, cause the story was great! They threw in a few twists and turns, and kept the whole thing very interesting. In conclusion, the wait was not worth it... there are better point and click games out there, even made by the same company! Full Throttle should have been a movie.

A remaster done as it should be, 100% faithful to the original.

I have been looking forward to playing this game since the remaster was first announced! I bought the preorder as soon as it was available, and ended up booking off a vacation day from work so I can spend the entire day playing it! That being said ... this game is as epic as a I remember! This was one of my favourite games when it was first released, and it still stands the test of time! The remastered version is extremely respectful of the original, even giving you the option to play with the original graphics and sound by pressing F1. I'm not particularly a fan of older style graphics, so I opted for the updated version. The only complaint I have is that it's a rather short game. Everything else is still amazing!

I felt like I overpaid 50%. While there's a lot to like about the game, the actual story is quite good, the world is cool, voice acting is good, music's great and the remaster is nicely handled as with the other Lucas Arts remasters... the actual gameplay was really not enjoyable and not just the much derided motorbike & demolition mini games (which frankly were the only bits that padded the game out to a swift 4/5 hours) which unfortunately sullied the whole experience for me. The "puzzles" are basically all trial and error which usually means repeatedly going though a clip of you running away, a short interlude movie or one of the many bike fights until you work out what works with what and even with its short run time it managed to squeeze in some poorly executed back tracking. For the ending I just gave in and used a walk-through as I'd simply stopped having fun and felt no joy or relief when I finally did come across the correct solution. It lives up to its dystopian setting with sparse areas with at most 3 puzzles to solve in each, a handful of items to look at and very few characters to interact with, I can think of only about 5 or 6 people who you can talk to within the game and much of that was just going through the options until they gave you what you wanted. The UI was okay, it did take me a while to realise that the 'look' option was combined with the talk/lick option but actually a separate action within the same button... having 4 buttons on a wheel would have made sense but then with such little talking to do perhaps it would have been superfluous. Also, while it has fast travel between areas, the purpose is rather defeated when you have to walk slowly back to your bike and sit through the animation of riding it out, cool the first 10 times, tedious by the halfway point. This is sadly one of the handful of point & clicks I don't see myself ever re-playing... but should a belated sequel ever arrive, I would certainly enjoy revisiting the world.

I had a good time with this game. The sense of humor and genre-tropes were pretty amusing, with a mix of Mad Max and zany / light-hearted humor. The puzzles mostly reasonable (only needed help with a couple at the end). A little pixel hunting with some of them stumped me for a time. You can highlight some clickables, but not all. Still, I'd say I needed *less* guide help than I do with most LucasArts point-n-click adventure games. Not the longest game in the world, if you're decent with puzzles, but good enough. The only solid drawback: a technical issue. Almost every single time I minimized the game, it froze and needed to be closed / reopened entirely. I know this was part-and-parcle for older games, but I'd figured we'd fixed that by now. Certain things, like alienware or nvidia, have overlay popups that automatically minimize the game -- thus, I had to figure out how to turn those off in my pc's settings to avoid automatically crashing the game. Even the transition from logo to start screen would crash, due to this.