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| Back to the Future: The Game Episode 1: It's About Time Review by Adam |  | | PC Review: For this one, you'll need the Power of Love. | | [View Article] |
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As a fan of the movies (seriously, who isn't?!) I'm interested in this game series, but something tells me to just wait until all episodes are out, they do a special bundle deal and then you'll at least get around 15-20 hours of gameplay...
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 8:29 am Post subject: |
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really want to play this...
registered for the free copy of episode 1, but you have to wait until Feb to get it...
i'm very tempted to grab it off steam as its reduced very slightly at around $22US... with the good $... thats tempting
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I think the ~$25 is fairly decent for 5 episodes. I did the preorder and got Puzzle Agent for free, which was also quite a fun game.
I suspected it may be more "interactive movie" style, but I'm ok with that.
I am a slightly obsessive bttf fan, so my views are likely to be biased as well. 
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 9:20 am Post subject: |
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I don't buy telltalegames from Steam because you can't get the free DVD at the end of the season (need to pay for shipping), and I like that free DVD 
| Quote: | | The thing is, the puzzles in this game are really very easy. |
Still playable and fun though. We get to know Doc's teen years
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| Island_Wolf wrote: | | I don't buy telltalegames from Steam because you can't get the free DVD at the end of the season (need to pay for shipping), and I like that free DVD |
There is a free dvd? The deal gets better and better.
If each episode is ~3 hours (maybe 5 hours for me because I'm bad at adventure games), that still seems like a reasonable investment for ~$25.
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| PALGN wrote: | | Unfortunately, there's a lot of bland stuff here, too. Despite the game's really brief length (3 hours unless you dilly dally), there's a lot of talking endlessly to uninteresting characters. |
Bland?? Uninteresting?? Talking endlessly??
Do you you normally like this genre of games? It sounds like you don't because that's pretty much how most of these games go. I guess it's subjective but the only character I found to be a little bit bland, so far, was Biff at the start of the game.
I don't disgaree that this is not gaming greatness but I do disagree with the main bulk of this review as it paints a picture of a game that is boring, uninspired, annoying and barely playable and that its only redeeming quality is the franchise name and the voice acting of the two main actors.
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^I've played every Telltale game so far, except for their CSI and early Poker games, and I'm also a huge adventure nut and Back to the Future fan.
Kidd Tannen in this game is a joke. He has nowhere near the menace of Biff, Mad Dog or Griff, who were all psychopaths in their own right, despite being buffoons. He just comes in, says whatever the cliche mobster line is appropriate, then awkwardly walks out.
Edna, who you do spend a lot of time with, is just woman-with-stick-up-her-butt-#3. Telltale already did this character in their Wallace and Gromit games with Wallace's neighbour. I thought for a minute we might see some character development when it turned out she is actually a charitous individual, but nope, she just talks high and mighty some more. And I know the other Stricklands were tightarses, but at least they were funny.
As for gameplay, you literally don't do a lot. There's only about three puzzles that require any thought at all, the rest being solved pretty damn easily. Add to that, 1930s Hill Valley is boring. I know it's Prohibition Era, but all you really see of it is the town square (or at least a couple of sides of it), a street, Doc's basement and the bland soup kitchen which came before Lou's Cafe. And again, these are boring.
Look, I am a huge, huge Back to the Future fan, and that's probably why I scored the game so high. That, and I loved all the Doc/Marty, Young Doc/Marty stuff. But this is almost like Telltale just pasted the license over their standard adventure game model (intro, collect a couple items, intermediary puzzle, 'action' ending). It could have been so much more. There's still time for it to become more. I really hope it does.
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| Scrav wrote: | There is a free dvd? The deal gets better and better.
If each episode is ~3 hours (maybe 5 hours for me because I'm bad at adventure games), that still seems like a reasonable investment for ~$25. |
This is the main reason I don't buy it through steam as that is never the option.
Gamewise I do agree with what Adam said and hopefully they improve it a lot for the next one  . I hope I don't have to put up with Edna as well!!! Where's a punch her in the face option, seriously!
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So I just got an email telling me to download this, but I only have the free copy. I thought you didn't get it until February?
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