Full Throttle: The Motion Picture! Sort of.
Jan 7th, 2009 by Bryan White
Back in the day, nothing hit the computer gaming spot for me quite like a Lucasarts point and click adventure. Chief among these, easily, was Full Throttle. Not The Dig. Not Grim Fandango. Full fuckin’ Throttle. And many will agree with me. Not only was it a lot of fun to play, it was very funny and would have made an excellent movie. Full Throttle blended elements of biker movies, cyberpunk and post-nuke aesthetic to create a game world I badly wanted to visit. It was pretty compelling. Compelling enough to make me shell out for another 4 megs of RAM halfway through the game when memory ran out back when buying RAM meant taking out a second mortgage on your house.
The game concerned the exploits of Ben, leader of a biker gang framed for the murder of one of the last motorcycle manufacturers left in a dystopic world of the near future. He has to go through hell, face down angry junkyard dogs, blind cave-dwelling bikers and a corrupt corporation tossing out bike manufacture in favor of mini-vans in order to clear his name. Featuring the voice work of Mark Hamil.
Thanks to one of my favorite gaming blogs, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, I was made aware of a game video that I hope is the trailhead for a new trend in gaming. Someone working under the name VGMD ran through the entire game, hid the interface and edited the clip from front to back to create a Full Throttle movie experience, cutscenes included, trimming out only the unnecessary bits. You’re left with an hour-long cinematic experience of the game, displayed as a movie. Get the full version from Gamers Hell here.
Does this count as a machinima?
