During conversations with other characters, several choices of dialogue are presented. As with other LucasArts graphic adventure games of the era, dialogue plays a large part in the game, presenting story elements and information necessary to advance, as well as fleshing out the characters. Players can move the player character to any place on the scene, interact with objects that are highlighted by the cursor, or leave scenes via exits - either on foot for most scenes, or via the character's motorbike, both types denoted by their own icon. Dialogue options are presented near the bottom of the screen.įull Throttle is a single-player video game in which the player controls the actions of the player character from a third-person perspective using a point and click interface. Gameplay īen, the protagonist, converses with Maureen upon their first encounter. It was one of the few LucasArts games to use licensed music, featuring songs by San Francisco-area rock band The Gone Jackals. In contrast to other computer games of the era, which mostly relied on in-house talent for their voice acting, Full Throttle used mostly professional voice actors, including Roy Conrad as Ben, Mark Hamill as the villainous Adrian Ripburger, Hamilton Camp as the elderly Malcolm Corley, and Kath Soucie as Ben's ally Maureen. It also introduced a contextual pie menu through which the player controls interactions with objects and characters.
It was the first LucasArts game to be distributed only on CD-ROM. It featured full-motion video and action sequences, using LucasArts' INSANE animation engine, which was previously utilized in Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire. A remastered version of the game was developed by Double Fine Productions and was released in April 2017 for Windows, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita, with later ports for iOS and Xbox One.įull Throttle was LucasArts' eleventh adventure game overall and the tenth to use the company's in-house game engine, SCUMM. Set in the near future, the game's story follows Ben, the leader of a biker gang, who is framed for the murder of a beloved motorcycle manufacturing mogul and seeks to clear his and his gang's names.
It was Schafer's first game as project lead and head writer and designer, after having worked on other LucasArts titles including The Secret of Monkey Island (1990), Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (1991), and Day of the Tentacle (1993). The game was released on April 30, 1995, for MS-DOS and Mac OS. Full Throttle is a graphic adventure video game developed by LucasArts and designed by Tim Schafer.
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