There are the makings of a really cool world in Full Throttle, even if we don’t get the chance to see much of it. However, the upgrade is still well done, and a worthy preservation for the title to find future fans.įull Throttle was Tim Schafer’s ode to rock, asphalt, leather and awesome hogs long before he would go on to make Brutal Legend.

It’s a fan-favourite, rather than a true classic, and after playing Full Throttle Remastered I’m not convinced it completely holds up today. By comparison, Full Throttle on its release was more experimental, throwing together point-and-click adventure puzzles with on-rails motorcycle fights, mixing pre-rendered FMVs with traditional pixel animation. While many other LucasArts titles have received a similar HD upgrade, from The Secret of Monkey Island to Day of the Tentacle, they could be considered more seminal titles, big leaps forward in the adventure game genre that introduced or refined mechanics to a high degree. Please forgive the nostalgic waffling, but then again its that same nostalgia that Full Throttle Remastered is banking on. Despite later getting the game and finishing it in full, my real memories of the game are of playing that demo over and over again.

But in that same pack was a sampler demo disc, with my first look at Full Throttle, by far the most cinematic game I’d seen from LucasArts yet. The LucasArts Archives. That was my introduction to point-and-click adventure games as a wee lad back in the 1990’s – a collection of some of the now-defunct studio’s best work, including Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Sam & Max Hit the Road and Day of the Tentacle.

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