Full Throttle Remastered

In the times when game devs had an idea and passion, memories were forged. And this is one of such memories. An interactive movie, with a little clishe actors (the lone brute with a soft heart, the rebel damsel, the white collar villain and his goons) and predictable plot, not too hard puzzles, nice but not over-the-top graphics (beautiful hand-made artwork, and bike animations made by people who must have rode before). And still, you need to finish the game, participate in the adventure and play again after a few days - even if it means only watching the intro again. A short game - too short! - but complete and giving pure joy, as all games should. So, if you're a person that was raised in the golden era of Indiana Joneses, Mortal Kombats and Red Alerts, you will appreciate this gem.

The remaster of the game is really well done. Like the gameplay, love the atmosphere. BUT. When you'll get at 67% progression YOU WILL GET STUCK BY CONTINUOUS CRASHES in a minefield UNLESS you know you have to turn off the remastered graphics and controls and play in windowed mode. MOREOVER. Some puzzles may obliterate your balls. There is no shame in getting help from the internet, especially when the PC SPAWNCAMPS you preventing you to go further unless you CHEESE (lookin' at you, destruction derby). Really great game, but it will definitely test your patience.

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!