Full Throttle (1995 video game)
Full throttle (English title Full Throttle ) is a 1995 given out by LucasArts point-and -click adventure with a few action elements. It was the first LucasArts adventure game, which was released exclusively on CD- ROM.
Contents and action
You play as the character Ben, the leader of a motorcycle gang. In the prologue of the game, he witnesses the murder of Malcolm Corley, the Board of the recent motorcycle factory in the country. Although the murder was committed by his deputy, who thus hopes to change the company profile for the production of minivans go, Ben is accused of murder. He escapes and must try to prove his innocence and to prevent the reorientation of Corley Motors henceforth.
Compared to other adventures, the plot is relatively short and the puzzles density is low. The focus is much more in the very dense image, sound and music scene with many video sequences, with the help of a very dense end time atmosphere is created. Full throttle therefore also bears traits of an interactive road movies.
The developers used for the much larger space freedoms that were through the medium of CD - ROM.
Systems and versions
The game was released in 1995 for the operating systems MS -DOS and Mac OS. The first time was not to publish a floppy disk version, as could be provided in the computers after the then state of technical development CD -ROM drives.
Currently sold versions are delivered with the interpreter ScummVM to keep the game on newer systems run.
Technology and control
Technically, the title is based on version 7 of the LucasArts SCUMM own language. In this game, LucasArts re-used the new, introduced by Sam & Max Hit the Road operating concept which uses the whole screen for the games graphics and action commands and inventory pops up only when needed. Compared to the control of Sam & Max, the user interface has been further modified and simplified - clicking now with the left mouse button, the player moves there, keeps you but these pressed, an image with the actions of "vision" (eye ), " speech appears with, drinking, etc. " ( mouth / tongue ), " Take, pressures, Draw, etc. " (hand) and" Join " ( boots). If we now draw the mouse on one of these actions and lets go of the button, the player performs this action. By right-clicking the inventory is opened which is how it is designed by Sam & Max.
Developer
- Lead Programmer: Stephen R. Shaw
- Artistic Director: Peter Chan
- Animation Director: Larry Ahern
- Music: The Gone Jackals and Others
Press
Reviews in game magazines
- Gamestar 03/ 98 72 %
- PC Player 07/ 95 80 %
- Power Play 07/ 95 88 %
Awards from gaming magazines
- Voted, Power Play 07 /95
- PC Games Classic Award, PC Games
Others
The main character Ben to be called Ben Throttle originally. Since LucasArts but feared a trademark conflict with the figure Throttle from the parallel broadcast television series Biker Mice from Mars, all references were removed on the last name in the final version. At the time of development of the ( adjusted ) Successor of the television series was forgotten and in some designs, the figure is referred to as Ben Throttle.
Successor
Directly in connection to the game began at LucasArts, the plans for a new full-throttle adventure with the title Full Throttle: Payback. For the project, Larry Ahern were used as lead developer and Bill Tiller as a graphic designer. After a development period of six months, the work was stopped before had been officially announced the game. Although the publication of drafts of the game by the graphic of the legal department of LucasArts has been denied, although some can be viewed.
2002 represented LucasArts another attempt to develop a successor and announced Full Throttle: Hell on Wheels at. This game was action- oriented but very much more compared to its predecessor, the classic adventure style and was considered by the fans of the first part with mixed feelings. After first graphics and a trailer of the game had been shown, in mid-2003 was given to the setting of the project due to quality deficiencies known.