Full Throttle Remastered for Pc

I'm writing this review from someone who grew up in this era but never played FT before. And was extremely apprehensive to purchase due to the negative Old Mine Rd bug. Didn't want to buy and get stuck but figured during the app sale to take a flyer. Glad I did... I'm using a mini iPad 4. Since I never played before I finally got to the Mine Rd spot. I spent many do overs and probably played that area for an hour and not once did I experience any problems. Nor did I have any issues controlling the bike at all. I never crashed it during that hr. I just didn't know how to beat the different bikers with what type of weapon. The controls at the destruction derby are whacked... that is until you figure it out. It took a long time but instead of trying to control the left and right side of the screen, just touch your car, keep your finger on the screen and drag your car as if you're tracing a path! Spoiler alert- then you can jump on the orange car easily and push it onto and off the second ramp. You don't even need to be precise for the cutscenes to happen. I've been using a walk through up to that point to see if I could do it but alas sorta had to cheat. Been a good experience so far. I'm about 85% done. I think Grim Fandgo is the best, followed by Day of Tentacle then the app Throttle. But that's my opinion. Don't let the bug comments stop you at least for a mini iPad 4.

I loved the app Throttle when I first played it in 1995 and still consider it to be my favorite adventure game. Many of the best LucasArts games from that era have been remade for iOS and I've been pleased by all of them, especially Monkey Island 2 and Grim Fandango. But this might be the best! The new, redrawn artwork is HD but somehow looks exactly like the original low resolution graphics in that nothing was materially changed, just smoothed and filled out. The audio is far better now (I never realized how low fidelity it was!) and the bonus features are super fun for "old" fans like me. Only complaint is that it's too easy to accidentally skip cutscenes. Maybe this should have an "Are you sure?" nag prompt before proceeding with the skip. *** Update *** I happily got through the game to the point where I enter the Old Mine Road on an iPhone 8 and it crashes every time I’m approaching Father Torque. I can’t continue the game. It reminds me of the game crashes I had on my 486 computer in 1995 at this very same part of the game, which I was able to solve with a driver update or something. That sort of tweaking isn’t possible in iOS though, so I can only wait for Double Fine to address the problem.

There are some tough technical problems like not being able to touch certain buttons like the settings button or some voice prompt responses that are at the top of the screen. I’m at the souvenir shop and the game has come to a grinding halt because I can’t make Ben walk back to the left off the screen again.

This was one of my favorite video games back in the 90’s. Everything from the story to the soundtrack makes this game stand out as one of the bests. I really wish Lucas Arts would do games like this again, let alone a sequel that unfortunately got canceled... but I am super excited to be playing it again and they did an excellent job upgrading the graphics and the music soundtrack! Worth every penny.