On a gameplay front, 'BttF: The Game' hits generally consistent marks.
It's definitely full of the 'Back to the Future' vibe, but when put in the grand scheme of things, the end result feels inconsequential to make a long story short, each new episode exemplifies the law of diminishing returns, to the point, that a final voice role by Michael J. Instead of exploring a radically new direction, 'BttF: The Game' falls into a glut of lazy plotting, and its healthy dose of nostalgia quickly comes off as weak, hackneyed scripting. Speaking strictly as a fan of the film series, 'Back to the Future: The Game' does somewhat satisfy my fond dream of a fourth film, but nowhere near the levels that 'Ghostbusters: The Game' did the same for it's own series. Over the course of the game's five episodic entries, the player is tasked with restoring balance to the timeline yet again, journeying back to the early 1930's and enlisting the help of a younger, but far less personable Doc Brown, all while experiencing a drastically altered 1986, a la 'Back to the Future II's' dystopian Biff-centric alternate timeline. It's not long before Marty is facing series antagonist Biff Tannen to get his hands on Doc Brown's notebook and hop in the DeLorean to discovery where Hill Valley's resident mad scientist has disappeared. 'Back to the Future: The Game' plays much more like Telltale's handling of 'Sam & Max' or 'Monkey Island' than their more ambitious work moving the genre forward in ' Jurassic Park,' ' The Walking Dead,' or ' Fables.' Following the tried-and-true episodic delivery method, the game picks up in very familiar territory, recreating the famous testing of the DeLorean from the first film it's a great nod to fans, the iconic scene, all while being a great narrative launch pad to play with the series' central plot device of time travel.
Fox impersonator and maybe, just maybe, the hunger for a fourth movie could be satiated. Enter Telltale Games and their critically positive track record of revitalizing the graphic adventure genre add in the Back to the Future series including Christopher Lloyd and an astonishingly great Michael J. Fox's diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and year-after-year passing by, the hopeful rumors of a fourth film in the series were all but dashed.
Fox and Christopher Lloyd created memorable, appealing characters: Marty McFly and Emmett 'Doc' Brown. While there may be debate when it comes to the quality of the second and third installments in the film series (I personally love both), there is absolutely no debate that the film's two biggest actors, Michael J. It would be hard for anyone to make an argument for ‘Back to the Future’ not having solid status as an iconic piece of pop culture.