If you were a kid of the 80s, then there was almost certainly a point in your life where you lounged around in your bed listening to your Huey Lewis and the News cassette, yearning for 2015 to arrive so that you could purchase the latest hoverboard. Now, over twenty years after the final movie in the Back to the Future trilogy, these desires may seep back into our subconsciouses. Telltale Games is releasing a five-part episodic video game that will continue the adventures of Marty McFly and Doc Brown, taking place shortly after the events in the third film.
Much like the recent Ghostbusters video game, the original stars of this 80s classic (Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, in this case) lend their voice talents to the game, which will be playable on PC, Mac OS X, iPad and PlayStation 3. Knowing the company making these games, these voices will probably be the game’s only highlights, so it’s no wonder that the trailer plays solely off nostalgia.
A quick Google search of the game reveals that the first episode will come out this month and it can be downloaded on the official website for free using the code “121GIGAWATTS.”
I doubt I will bother, unless it by some slim chance gets fantastic reviews, but I will be interested to read about where the story goes after some others play through. And hey, if this inspires a new generation of kiddies to watch the classic trilogy, then I suppose these games weren’t a complete waste of time to make.
Atrocious. That is all.
What’s atrocious? It’s a video game cutscene for the iPad. The game might be amazing.
Voice acting, pacing, graphics, pretty much everything looks so bloody forced and pedestrian. Epic Awfulness. Wow, that would never, ever make me WANT to play the game.
It’s not supposed to be cinema quality. Have you ever played a downloadable game made for iPhones and the like? This is pretty high quality for such a game. And to get Lloyd and Fox in for the voice acting is pretty amazing. Now if this were a Playstation 3 or Xbox 360 game I could see your complaint.
Are you sure lloyd and fox really are doing to voices for this? Over at io9 they were talking about how good this random kid was at doing the Fox voice.
I know it’s Llyod for sure, but you’re right. I guess it wasn’t Fox. I thought I had read he came back but I guess not:
That MJF impression is pretty uncanny.
Oh, I was mistaken also. I thought Michael J. Fox provided the voice as well.