Full Throttle Remastered

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OG Full Throttle was a bit of an oddity at time of release. You see, adventure games during the 90’s were often marathon slogs, multi-hour epics that kept their lengthy narratives securely locked behind a sleuthwall of inventory-based puzzles and mind-bending shenanigans. They were long, long games, lengthened considerably by the fact that solving the wield little puzzles they lay in front of you was no easy task, and figuring that all out in a time before GameFAQS and Youtube walkthroughs took, sometimes, ungodly amounts of time. It was the norm. Then serial offenders Lucasarts had a go at bucking the trend.
I mean, it wouldn’t be strictly fair to suggest that Full Throttle was overly easy and could be seen off in an afternoon, but Full Throttle is overly easy and could be seen off in an afternoon. Usually, this would lead to some derision from a target audience who considered beating games like The Longest Journey in under 40 hours a respectable speed run, but it cultivated a big enough following for two separate (and failed) attempts at a sequel. Perhaps that had something to with the fact that it was released at the tail end of the adventure boom, and the lack of near-obligatory spirit-breaking puzzles had stopped being a death sentence and was more appreciated by filthy casuals a tiring audience. Maybe they were impressed by its technological progression; Full Throttle was the first point & click to be released solely on CD-Rom. Mid 90’s peeps might have just been easily impressed with gruff biker gangs; I can’t really speak for the overall audience. I’ve always thought it was a pretty good game.
And a pretty good game it remains! This makes it kind of an odd target for a remaster, especially considering how little there was to remaster. The soundtrack was already excellent, taking the less travelled route of licensing music from an established band. It had already hit the heady heights of CD-based audio, so none of the voice actors had to rerecord any of their previous stellar work. Which is probably just as well; Mark Hamill has found his schedule somewhat cluttered in recent years, and the unfortunate passing of Roy Conrad means we’re just going to have to make do with his effortlessly brilliant reading of gruff biker gang leader, Ben.
Really, all they’ve had a go at ‘remastering’ has been the graphics which, I guess, kind of look good? The game was released at a time when artists were doing some really good pixel art, so the original’s graphics are already fluid and well animated; the new version is certainly bolder and better defined, but sometimes look like they don’t belong when set against the backgrounds. Like someone’s done a rushed copy and paste job, jamming two things that don’t belong together. That sentiment may feel a little unfair, and you could scroll through dozens of environments without it ever being a problem. Or you could just switch between the two versions on whim, making most of my bellyaching redundant.
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Awesome game back in the day and the remake is even better, these are the good games

I'm not putting my lips on that...

Are you old AF and looking for some PC nostalgia from LucasArts? You’ve found the right place in Full Throttle. It’s not in the same status as Sam & Max or Day of the Tentacle, but it will still scratch the itch if you’ve never played it before.
And if you are a Zoomer, treat it like a history course, an addition to the foundation of your gaming future.
Point and click your way to a good time, and a great game of the last century!

Overall this was a great throwback experience to my childhood time.
Quality remaster, which retains all great feature of original game, including graphics and music

you can beat the whole thing in 4 hours. its a fantastic evening of silly references and kicking things.

Ok, so I never played the original game, so I don't have any nostalgia for it. I enjoyed this game it was short and sweet. The puzzles were very logical. The action sequences were a tad frustrating, but that's because I don't have a controller, since most games I play are point and click. The animation style is very nice and the voice acting was top notch. I got this on sale and would have been happy if I had payed the full 15 bucks.