Full Throttle Remastered

My dad and I used to play this together when I was 8. This was back when you could get this and Dark Forces on the same disc. This was the first PC game I ever played. He created different save points so I could practice each section of the game. He always said that one day we would have a competition to see who could beat the game the fastest. He passed away when I was 12 so we never got a chance to do that. Now I play this game in his memory. I wish he was still alive to see the fresh coat of paint they put on this game. Whenever I start to miss him badly I just boot up this game and I feel like he is close to me. Thanks for reading.

Point-and-click adventure games I think we could safely say are amongst the most widely loved genres due to many reasons. The easy to control interface, pleasing graphics, witty and funny dialogues, fun and often imaginative puzzles and the fact that they are usually suitable for anyone regardless of age (this last one is not entirely true - there are plenty of exceptions) all contribute to this. Full Throttle is no exception, as a matter of fact, one of the pinnacles of the genre.
Originally released in 1995, the game doesn't only possess the good characteristics of its kind, but also has an engaging story, memorable characters, great humour with plenty of well-animated cutscenes and action sequences - almost turning it into an interactive cartoon. Instead of the childish nature of The Secret of Monkey Island, another iconic LucasArts adventure game, the plot here has a rather serious, mature tone: sometime, in the post-apocalyptic near future, where hovercrafts are not an uncommon sight, the head of the last manufacturer of quality motorcycles - Corley Motors - Malcolm Corley meets a motorcycle gang (who nearly wreck his limousine) on the way to an important shareholder meeting. Overwhelmed by old memories and befriending their charismatic leader, Ben, they are interrupted by the company's vice president, Ripburger, who intends to hire the group for reasons unknown. When Ben refuses the offer, he is knocked out by Ripburger's henchmen behind the bar. After he wakes up from being unconscious, Ben finds his gang gone and it is heavily implied that Ripburger is trying to take over the company by murdering Mr. Corley.
Our hero, the square-jawed, gravel-voiced motorcycle-loving vagrant (just simply) Ben is an ideal main character: a tough leader of a gang who often has conflicts with the law and doesn't shy away - despite those high knee run scenes where he does - when it comes to some (necessary amounts of) violence, but is still an honourable person. His personality is also reflected in some way on the action/pie menu (opens up when clicking on an interactable element and replaces the previously used prelisted text commands): the hand is for using/punching, the boots for kicking, while the skull includes 2 modes, eyeballs for inspecting and the tongue for talking/licking (this 2nd option is absolutely useless when performed on objects - it's there for just an achievement).
A crosshair functions as the 'pointer' with its border turning red when moved over an interactable object or person and by right-clicking can we bring forth our inventory. If we doubleclick on the arrow pointing onto another screen, we can skip the walking animation (even if it's sped up during longer walks).
Despite being a classic point-and-click adventure the game has quite a few action sequences. Now whether these provide additional joy or not... is open to debate. There are 2 such generally unfavoured scenes: the Old Mine Road chases and the destruction derby part. The destruction derby shouldn't be hard at all, IF we know exactly what to do: first we must use the ramp on the left and get on top of the orange car (it'll position itself there, when we are there) rendering it immobile, then push it little by little to the bottom right corner and over the ramp there, jumping onto the blue car this time.
The Mine Road however is only about navigating (with the mouse :/) and hitting our enemies as if there was no tomorrow... with the appropriate weapon. Ben's fists and kicks are surprisingly effective, but some enemies require specific 'tools' + we don't have to beat all of them (even though it's not up to us to choose which one we want to engage, they just come by randomly and either they fall or we do - we can retry as many times as we wish). We need 4 (or 5) specific items:
- black guy + fists = chains
- bearded guy with sunglasses + chains = turbo booster (for our bike)
- fiery redhead + fertilizer = chainsaw (this might be skippable, we need it for an achievement)
- fat guy on armoured bike + chainsaw = wooden bar
- cavefish member (they look like Tusken raiders from Star Wars + wooden bar = special goggles
During these chases I also managed to encounter a glitch: after I fell with my bike, the looping road was shown and the game didn't react to anything, only quitting solved the problem (and I lost progress :/). I switched to the remastered version - I had been playing the classic mode until this point - which solved this problem (it never occured again) + it also made controlling the bike smoother. So from here on I decided to stick with the remaster.
Since I never played the original, the classic mode with pixel graphics felt fine, although by choosing it we'll have to relinquish the 16:9 fullscreen aspect ratio and go with the old 4:3 instead.
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On second inspection however we lose nothing by going with the remastered version, on the contrary: since Double Fine did a very good job and maximally stayed true to the original - everything looks the same, just better, a bit brighter and without pixels + the signs become clearly readable. The barren landscape despite its bleak appearance also becomes more detailed where it matters.
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We can switch between the original and the remaster in the menu any time.
The menu itself is very creative displaying the bar interior seen at the beginning where for example the girl playing five finger fillet provides access to options, through we can set the graphics, audio, control by the different fingers, or the TV screen that serves for loading our saved games.
The quality of voiceovers is amazing, all the main characters' - our hero, Mr. Corley, Ripburger (Mark Hamill) and Maureen, our love interest (whose true identity is sadly immediately given away by one of the steam trading cards :/) - voices are provided by professional voice actors.
While the sound effects are just mediocre (they are suppressed by the loud music for the most part anyway), the soundtrack is very fitting: rock during cutscenes and very good ambient ones at different locations & situations.
For a point-and-click adventure, item uses compared to other games of the genre are relatively low, we won't really have more than 5-6 items in our inventory at a time. On the other hand using them isn't automatic, we have to know what we are doing, putting the necessary items to their exact locations. We don't have a journal and although there's just 1 password in the game, we should take a note, or at least a screenshot to remember it.
The game's biggest fault is undoubtedly its shortness: it can be beaten in less than 3 hours and even if we explore everything (experimenting with wrong dialogue options, getting extra achievements) it shouldn't take more than 6 hours, including the annoying timed sequences at the very end (during which we CAN actually die for good).
Despite these problems Full Throttle is a unique and absolutely enjoyable adventure, where everything is done masterfully including the amazing atmosphere, memorable characters and the slickly placed references. If only it was longer.
PROS
+ excellent atmosphere
+ thrilling story, great characters
+ witty, funny dialogues
+ fitting music
+ great remastered graphics
+ plenty of references
CONS
- very short
- discovering hotspots at certain points can be troublesome
RATING
8.5/10
Thanks to wasabi™ for the game!

Easily one of the best point and click adventure games ever made. The story and dialogue are so good it could be a movie. Although, compared to other Lucas Arts Adventure games, the puzzles are not top of the line, but still very good. 9/10

Full Throttle Remastered is a point and click game about a biker. The story was well done and I was surprised that there was voice acting too, coupled with some humor behind it. Some of the puzzles needed you to be quite creative and was quite 'fun'. I enjoyed this game and would recommend it.

Great throwback. Good audio, VA, full widescreen. It's pretty cheap on sale too.
So get it for that while on sale. All these old PnC Scumm games are available for free on a lot of different sites (the old versions that are no longer in market). But I got this just to play again (and it comes w commentary)

One of the best Lucasarts games ever! If you were a fan of the genre of adventure games back in the day, this has changed everything. Voice acting, the jokes, the plot, everything is great about this game.

One of my favorites of all times.

Very entertaining for a short time. The character moved a bit slow in my opinion, and sometimes it's really hard to figure out what to do (without a guide), but the humor and music makes up for it!