Full Throttle

Full Throttle description

Sooner or later, one way or another, everything comes to an end.
And that's good.

LucasArts has always been famous for their quests. Let's at least remember Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Sam & Max Hit the Road Curse of Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle. I only list the quests Lukasova. Because today we talk about the apotheosis in the adventure industry. A great, terrible, everyone's favorite, a thousand, no, a million times driven FULL THROTTLE. And it was after I spit from the three-dimensional quests.

The game, trained a generation of gamers. The game that made the phrase "two-dimensional cartoon adventure" the cult and dead at the same time. Because after Full Throttle to tell anyone there was nothing. We were invited to play in the bikers. Yes, those sweaty, bearded Mussin on the Harley, with a cigarette in his mouth, going towards life. As sung in one song:

Each counter loser pouring dirt on us
Well, no money, no palaces - there is one life
I spend as I can, who loves heavy he's my friend
For me, the bike and counselor, and wife

We were able to navigate through the location on foot, but only on the iron horse. About the plot, in General, everything. Played people would ask: "How is everything?"

And that's it. I even tie not going to tell you. Just play.

Further equipment. What technique, what I mean... ART. Graphics - at the highest level, is that the SCUMM engine, which was written all Lukasovsky quests ceased to grow. Nowhere. Maybe slightly better graphics in the Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!, but this is not an essence was important.

Sound. All the characters are voiced by professional actors, as in the English translation (including voice acting was attended by Mark Hamill, most famous as Luke Skywalker) and in the Russian pirate (translated by the company "Akella" for which he became one of her latest translations on illegal basis). For this supply below 11 on a 10 point scale the hand does not rise.

Music. All the music for the game was written by little known before (and after) the band the Gone Jackals. But it is the album Bone to Pick, which of these guys wrote specifically for Full Throttle, sold mad copies. And if the noise estimate exceeds 10-point scale, the music surprisingly fits well into the world of bikes, money and betrayal, already exceeds the scale stoballnoy.

The possibility of pereprohozhdeniya and, most importantly, the desire to present immediately after the first show ending. And second. And third. And datoga.

Further - more. Turn to creative solutions to quests. This already unique world built 3 mini-games.

1) the Knives, or "Not to get a knife on the fingers";
2) Soak the other biker's leg/hand/chain/chainsaw/what's up under his arm and
3) a Massive race to the bottom of small cars.

And finally, this is a great opportunity for quests like "leg kick". The door is closed? Kick (hint). The camera doesn't work? Impact remount! And the like.

The abundance of memorable scenes, challenging puzzles, juicy Midwestern humor, classic quest outline and furious the final scene here is worth to play it. But at the same time in order to really brutally good time.

This raises one simple question. Can this game be considered the best quest of all time? You know, I think not. Because Full Throttle is not a quest. It's Full Throttle. And that's it.

And for God's sake, don't put it a week before important any event. Miss after all. 've missed? And, well, to hell with them! Come on, my trusty bike!!!

Alternative description - Aleosha

In the near future. Cars fly on roads without wheels, and the only one who would never change the smell of rubber and molten asphalt, were the bikers.

Ben (Ben), leader of the most powerful biker gang in the area, cool. He is cool in everything from motorcycle and leather jacket in studs and ending with a square unshaven face and boots that come into contact with a mass of animate and objects. But this time even the coolness did not save him from the boards, hit in the head, and from his long sleep, held in a dumpster.

Getting out of the dumpster, Ben realizes that big trouble. But not in his habits to give up in the face of danger. Although this time she threatens him everywhere, because he was on the way the Deputy Director of Corley Motors, who wants to lay her hands on and start producing the vans.

The interface of the game is very simple and convenient. Should you hold the left mouse button, appears a menu with choice of actions. Also it is a standard (to talk, to take), there is a more original action: for example, how should the leg kick.

Very nice graphics, sound and voice actors don't annoy, and first heard music, I do not realizing in this report, began to beat with your foot, which in itself speaks about its quality. Add to that a wonderful, though at times black, humour, characteristic of all quests LucasArts, and get almost the benchmark of the genre that everyone should go at least once.

Have you ever wondered what kind of video games were played in the good old days? Try playing Full Throttle online now and we are sure you will not stop playing again.

Source: Archive.org, Mobygames.com