Telltale has been teasing me with cool looking games I refuse to pay for for ages now. Seriously, look at this list of franchises that telltale has taken on: Sam & Max, Strong Bad, Monkey Island, a dabble in Penny Arcade and Team Fortress, Wallace and fucking Grommit, they've covered a lot. Deciding that cult was simply not enough, Telltale have moved onto to something iconic: An episodic Back to The Future title that acts as a direct follow-up to the original trilogy. Oh, and the first episode is now free for download. Just thought I'd throw that in there.
Without giving too much away, the game takes place about three months after the events of Back to the Future Part 3, with Doc Brown still missing and presumed dead by everyone in Hill Valley. That is except for Marty who soon rediscovers the Delorean and goes off to find out where in time Doc Brown has gone missing to. You'll point and click your way through roughly 4 hours of gameplay in environments that despite a more toon-ish art style, still manage to retain the feeling of Hill Valley circa 1986. All the trademarks are here: The Delorean, the Flux Capacitor, Doc's pet dog Einstein, The Tannens, and the music. The score for this game borrowed heavily from Alan Silvestri's original score. If you pay close attention early in the game you'll catch some Huey Lewis and the News thrown in there for good measure. Actually, hold on one second...
Huey Break!
My apologies. Speaking of sound, the voice acting for this game is spot on. Michael J. Fox didn't come back to reprise his role as Marty McFly, but his replacement A.J. LoCascio will make you believe that Telltale somehow kidnapped him anyway and forced him to read for his family's lives like it was 1986. Christopher "Suburban Commando" Lloyd even makes a return as the voice of Doc Brown. Some replacements fill in others like Biff Tannen and Marty's dad George, but they all sound as authentic as the real thing.
Biff Tannen: Still an asshole.
Being a point-and-click adventure game with a light inventory system, the gameplay isn't deep or complex, but all the same it takes a bit of thought to solve some of the challenges in the game. On the other side of that coin however, it's far from what you'd call "punishing." You can try running into traffic, saying the wrong things to start shit with an NPC and not progress, use Doc's journal in an attempt to hit that old lady and steal her newspaper, (After you play the game that will only sound half as insane as it does now) anything. You cannot fuck this up. There are infinite chances and I don't think they even designed a "game over" screen. You can point and click to your heart's content until you either beat the game or get carpel tunnel syndrome.
For only a 400MB download that cost zero dollars to obtain Back to the Future: Episode 1 was a no-brainer for me.Want to know where to find your free copy? Head over to Telltale's site here and download it straight from the source. The only catch is that you need to register on Telltale's website first. Fortunately, it's pretty quick and painless and totally worth it for 4+ hours of Delorean Time travelling Shenanigans. Beats the hell out of the idea of a remake of the original film too. It's all the fun of Back to the Future without the Libyan terrorists. Unless you really wanted Libyan terrorists. In which case our condolences. Here's a trailer for the game to ease the pain:
We couldn't find a video of the Libyans attacking Doc Brown. Again, our condolences.
By: Tim
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