Ripburger offers to hire the Polecats to escort Malcolm to the meeting, but when Ben declines, he is knocked out by Ripburger's flunkies, Bolus ( Jack Angel) and Nestor ( Maurice LaMarche).īen awakens to learn that the Polecats have been duped into escorting Malcolm, and that an ambush is planned for them further up the road. Catching up to them at a biker bar, he quickly befriends their leader, Ben ( Roy Conrad). Malcolm's limousine is overtaken by one such gang, the Polecats, and he is immediately impressed with them. Malcolm suspects that Ripburger is scheming to take over the company, and is suspicious of Ripburger's plan to recruit a biker gang to ride with them to the meeting. The last domestic motorcycle manufacturer in the country is Corley Motors, whose founder and CEO, the elderly Malcolm Corley ( Hamilton Camp), is en route to a shareholders meeting at the Corley factory, accompanied by his vice president, Adrian Ripburger ( Mark Hamill). 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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