Tim Schafer and LucasArts made a bunch of great graphical point-and-click adventure games in the ’90s, and two of them have already been remastered and released for PS4. Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle were both amazing recreations, taking old pixelated imagery and updating them with stunning art. I had the opportunity to run through a short demo of Full Throttle Remastered with Tim Schafer himself standing at shoulder to shoulder with me.
He casually explained that the demo we were playing was actually an old PC Magazine demo from a demo disc (yes, there was once a time when physical magazines came with physical demo discs so that people could try out games!) that was remastered on par with the Full Throttle Remaster quality. It’s actually an awesome throwback, the kind of little facts that most will never know, but add a special little spark to the story of the creation of these games, from its birth over 20 years ago to it’s mirrored remaster today. Even the original demo is being used to get player’s hands on the remaster, albeit at PSX and not on a demo disc. Click Everything
Full Throttle Remaster looks incredible. The animations look hand drawn, but fit neatly over the original game, which can be toggled to on the fly to show how far the game has come. Signature Tim Schafer humor is here in spades, and made me want to click on every possible object to hear what hilarious thing Ben would say next in the search for the keys to his bike, ...