Monday, August 8, 2011

Back To The Future The Game a look back or forward..


"Aren't Time Paradoxes Fun"-Legend of Zelda OoT Guide.  That line pretty much somes up the whole Back to the Future franchise.

This game takes place after the 3rd movie. It finds Doc's house being sold off since he has been missing for months and the DeLorean just reappearing out of the blue. This sends Marty back to 1931 to save current Doc and his younger self.  Giving away a story explanation would ruin it for you..and make my head hurt trying top write it.

So lets look at more of the specs.  The game is 5 episodes long and will cost 20$ at least on the PSN, reader feel free to leave price comments for Steam/Xbox/Ipad. WHen I bought it i spent 20$ and got the rest for free as they all came out, but since they are out now you can just get them all at once.

This game is a point and click adventure style game, you walk Marty around finding out clues, getting items, solving puzzles all to help save Doc, the Past and the Future. The controls are basic just sometimes the camer whips you in a weird angle and your now walking the wrong way, or the little cursor thing won't let you pick the item you want. Which can get overly frustrating but the game allows for that in most all cases giving you infinite time and not wrong happening if you select the wrong item, this is true expect for 1 puzzle in Episode 1..

Play time for each will vary between 1:30 hrs and 2:30 depending on speed in figuring out puzzles and if you what to trohpy hunt or not.  Each Episode is separate in the trophies with 1 gold 3-5 silvers and 5-9 bronze, there is no Platinum bonus for finding all of them.  Speaking of them, some of them are very easily missed, or you have do a puzzle a certain way or perfectly. I personally used PS3 Trophies to help me when I was lost.

To me the biggest deal of this game is they got the core of the orgional cast to do it. Christopher Lloyd as Doc, New comer AJ LoCascio as Marty, who seriously pull's it off perfectly never would of known other wise, even Micheal J Fox came back and did some voices in episode 5!!  To me this was what allowed the game to flow and be so greatly well liked.

The ended the game like they did the movies, with a, "Well look at all the crazieness", so they could do another set of games or they could not, me I hope they do, I loved playing all of these.

Over all the game touched and tugged on my nostalgia heart strings. To me the puzzles were sometimes hard, even if they gave you hints to help you along. It was a truely fun game and worth the money at 20$. If you loved the series go grab the game, if you like point and click adventures still buy the game, then watch the movies


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