Community Review: Back To The Future: The Game

13 responses to “Community Review: Back To The Future: The Game”

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   Tommy

   January 10, 2011 at 10:07 am

   Straight from a fan of both the films and telltale – the game is the shiznit. It does do a fairly good job of keeping the legacy and the puzzles are good enough to keep a telltale vet occupied while also being accessible enough for new players. The story so far has
   me hooked and I await the next eps with anticipation. So yea, as I said. The shiznit

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   matt30822

   January 10, 2011 at 10:08 am

   I felt overall it was a good first episode but the puzzles were a little easy, it was short and there was not much to do. But it did have a great story and a great VO cast, which being a BTTF fan was enough for me.

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   Tommy

   January 10, 2011 at 10:08 am

   Also the dude doing marty’s voice acting deserves an award or something because I couldn’t tell the differrence 😛

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   Jamie Watt

   January 10, 2011 at 10:54 am

   Everyone talks about the Marty Voice actor. Yes, his audition tape is good. In the game? No? He does a passable (at best) impression of Michael J Fox but it takes more than that to make Marty McFly.

   I haven’t finished the episode yet but so far the game has been enjoyable but BttF has so much potential as a game and it just isn’t being utilised here. I have to break Doc Brown out of jail by getting his younger self to build me a drill (Powered by alcohol for some weird reason)when I have a fully functioning DeLorean time machine. Why don’t I zip forward in time, get some sort of cutting tool, zoom back and free the Doc? That way I don’t have to talk to anyone and risk unsettling the balance of time… right? To cap it all off, they didn’t even get Thomas F Wilson back to play Biff and his replacement just doesn’t cut it.

   At one point in the game I got to choose the alias I went by. I ignored the obvious 30’s ganster name of Michael Corleone and went with Harry Callahan (Inceeping with the Clint Eastwood thing) but later on Marty introduces himself as Michael Corleone anyway. Why give me the choice?

   In summary, fun but it could have been so much more. Bob Gale

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      Jamie Watt

      January 10, 2011 at 10:56 am

      Posted early 😛

      I was going to say that Bob Gales involvement did little for me as Zemeckis was the real driving force behind the story.

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         Mark Serrels

         January 10, 2011 at 11:00 am

         Yeah, but I always thought that BttF had an incredible script. The two of them kinda story boarded the story, but Gale seemed like he actually wrote the scripts themselves. Probably Gale’s involvement was minimal.

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            Jamie Watt

            January 10, 2011 at 12:49 pm

            Yeah, Gale wanted the sequel to be about Marty going back to the 60s. So basically part 1 but a decade later. It was Zeleckis who came up with the future/alternate timeline/back to 1955/western which then became Part 2 & 3.

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               Jamie Watt

               January 10, 2011 at 12:51 pm

               Zemeckis even 😛

5. 

   Brewer74

   January 10, 2011 at 12:27 pm

   Just a question, I remember when I bought Poker Night not long ago, and went to a website to enter a code, that said we would get free acess to the 1sat Episode. I really want to play the game but have not received the 1st episode yet. Has anyone else done this and received the game yet? I dont want to buy the whole set if I am getting the 1st ep for free. Looks tang though.

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      Jamie Watt

      January 10, 2011 at 1:01 pm

      You don’t get the free first episode till Feb/March if I recall. It said on the page when you sign up.

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6. 

   BoomerFish

   January 10, 2011 at 1:30 pm

   Not a bad game, but i didnt feel it did BTTF justice. It felt way to juvenile to me. Considering alot of the people that are going to buy this game are mid 20’s adults (usual fans of the series) i would liked something closer to the storyline of the films, either a prequel, or continuing after bttf 3. The new ghostbusters game i felt did a really good job at creating a new believable story, whilst having nostalgia references for fans.

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   sarujin

   January 10, 2011 at 1:44 pm

   I enjoyed it. It has been years since I’ve played an adventure game, and I finished it in two sittings.

   The puzzles are quite easy, especially with the hint system. But then it is better than some of the old Lucasarts and Sierra games that were easy to get stuck in, and you often had to consulate FAQs.

   For the price it is for a season ($25) and the amount of time one episode out of 5 took, I think it is good value.

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   Scion

   January 11, 2011 at 2:16 am

   I think Kotaku is being harsh, I really enjoyed it. The texturing is better than the monkey island game, I bet universal put a bigger budget than lucasarts did, but I still enjoyed the new monkey island game as well.

   It’s fun, I think people over analyse what’s what when something’s fanbase is so loyal and huge. If you are a fan I’d say its really worth a look.

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