Back to the Future: Ep 5 - OUTATIME

Good game and I recommend it to all the players out there. For 80s nostalgia it's a must to any Back to the Future fan.

it really continues the back to the future story without ruining the trilogy with a 4th movie. So i like that i can still have more story from this universe that feels more natural then how a movie would tell the story

What a trip! The end of the game was the best. Good graphics and yes, I do recommend this game. Good all memories.

I really enjoyed the game, I am a big fan of the movies. I am wondering why it said to be continued at the end of episode 5.

A bit slow in that mid 2000's point and click adventure way but it's fun and feels like it could have been back to the future 4 or a mini series.

Very cool story, would honestly make a better movie than a game. The controls are pretty crap and there isn't much "gameplay" to speak of. I think the voice acting and story more than make up for it as Telltale games tend to be more story focused. If you like Back to the Future and wish maybe there was one more movie, you will like these.

The movies are great so I had to check these out. The game story is pretty good. The graphic style and voice acting are good. As a game though its pretty bad. While it plays smoothly with no crashes, at its heart its a simple adventure game where you just pick everything up you can and try to use it somewhere else. Its very linear and most of the time you can only do one thing that will progress the story. The controls are terrible. Both the gamepad and the mouse are erratic and usually send Marty off in the wrong direction. Its hard to walk with the mouse (its not point and click like most adventure games) and its hard to navigate the screen to interact with items with the gamepad (it will just flip between a couple items and not show everything) so I had to use both for most of the game. If you like the movies, play it through once to enjoy the story. If you don't love the movies then skip it for sure.

Great ending to a good and quite enjoyable game with a very nice story with a lot of complications. If you are a fan of Back to the Future, go definitely pick this up (the whole season). It's worth the time. What's also really cool is that Lloyd and Fox came back to do VOs, Doc is fully through a whole season VOed by Lloyd. I really enjoyed VO of the whole season.

Preface:
Each review is for an individual episode. But a rough ranking is here:

Episode 1 - 8/10
Episode 2 - 9/10
Episode 3 - 10/10
Episode 4 - 6/10
Episode 5 - 10/10 [Current Review]

The finale of the game, Back to the Future's last episode goes all out. I can't say much, but the episode has some emotional moments, lots of craziness, and probably more references to the movies than the other episodes did. The end of the episode might have made some people frustrated, but I think its implied that you're not meant to worry too much about it.

If it wasn't for the "To Be Continued", which we know won't happen, I think the way they ended the episode was a nice way to end the adventures.

Great series for BTTF! Made me go back and rewatch the movies. The voice acting is great, and the games are fun and a tad challenging at times. Perfect combo. <3

I bought this entirely because I was trying to get the full catalog from Telltale Games. This... well, this was just a big mistake. I really wish at this point that I hadn't purchased it. The choices aren't really even choices. Everything you choose is either right and you move on, or wrong and you choose again until you figure it out. That's pretty much the whole game. For anyone looking for the good old Telltale that you know and love, this game isn't it. I highly recommend passing this one up. 0/10.

This Telltale-Game is a pretty sweet sequel to the movie franchise.

Story
In 1986 you play as Marty and witness how Doc's properties are being sold and suddenly the DeLorean appears which gives to the clue that the real Doc has problems in the past and you must help him.
And of course like in the movies you will stumble in some excellent adventures (...oh wrong movie :D) including changing the past and the future.
Without spoiling to much of the storyline:
you will go back to the year 1931 than back to an alternate 1986 and of course back to 1931 and a little bit of the wildwest (only a few moments at the end of the game).

The whole story will be told in 5 episodes. (You get all 5 episodes with one buy.)
Every episode will end with a twist and a short look to the next episode.


The graphics...
...are nicely done.
You don't need a high end cpu to run this game.
The characters and environment have a comic book design which looks pretty sweet and you recognize all the characters from the movies.


The gameplay...
...is really simple as you just do point and click und move with mouse or keyboard.


The soundtrack...
...is awesome but hey, its just the same themes as in the movies!!!
I'm glad they got the rights and didn't use new themes because otherwise it would be horrible.


The voice acting...
The voice actors are doing a good job.
Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown is the only actor from the movies who does the voice acting on this game.
All the other characters are beeing dubbed by different actors.
AJ Locascio does a an amazing job portraiting Marty McFly.
Michael J. Fox has a voice cameo in the 5th episode!!


Only two cons:
- no achievemnts
- no trading cards


I totally recommend it for young and mature people who love the Back to the Future movies!!


Gameplay: 5/10
Game Controls: 5/10
Characters: 10/10
Character Design: 8/10
Character Development: 8/10
Story: 8/10
Storytelling: 7/10
Graphics: 6/10
Music: 7/10

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A very nice extension to the established storyline. Great fun with an good sense of humor and timing without too many nods.

I've been meaning to play these games for a long time. I'm glad I finally did, as its like playing through a 4th Movie that feel true to the original trilogy. Doc and Marty get some great character development, and we get to drive through Doc's formative years as a young scientist. The interface is a little wonky sometimes, but its nothing that will prevent gameplay. I loved some of the call backs and easter eggs that reference the movies, and you will too if you play though all five chapters.

(*** of 5) As tell tale games go, this one also has an interesting stories with some unexpected turn. Still, it couldn't quite hook me. The game felt more like a point and click game. If you like that, go ahead and play it, if you don't, let it be. I really loved "life is strange" and compared to that, "Back to the future" feels awkward. Maybe it's just the outdated graphics, but i doubt it. The story just couldn't really make me dive into it... and the end was rather strange...

Since Steam splits every episode of Back to the Future into a separate store page, unlike newer Telltale games, I'm just putting my review for the entire game here.

A phenomenal adventure game that not only features great puzzles, but is driven by a funny, heatwarming story and incredible acting. It's the best sequel that Back to the Future has ever managed to produce, and made me genuinely care about the original movie even more.

I recomend for Fans of the Franchise and casual gamers.

I enjoyed this game. It did get stuck on ep. 5 because I didn't bring the flower pot with me. Anyway the voice acting is ok and the graphics are nice for this type of game. You may run into audio glitches from time to time while fast forwarding through dialogue. The movement controls can also be trouble some from time to time.

Even with all this, I liked it!

I highly recommend the entire Back to the Future Series for any fan of story/aventure PC games, Telltale in general, and BTTF fans, of course. The final episode warranted a special addendum as it felt like too much was crammed into concluding the series - there was much more dialogue and less gameplay. Speaking of conclusion, there really wasn't one ultimately unless the intention was to tell folks not to mess with the timeline. That could have very well been the case, but I was hoping for something more resolute after 10-15 hours. Gametime was about 10 hours, but you could play 15 hours if you click on everything and investigate every piece of dialogue. Although the ending wasn't all that satisfying for me, it still a great game that I would absolutely recommend.

For fans of the movies, there really isn't much of a choice other than to play this series. "Back to the Future: The Game" is one of TellTale's earlier games, and it shows, with very limited choices and a linear story. The story itself also hews close to the original trilogy, down to the same feel when it comes to the final resolution.

Voice acting isn't bad. Christopher Lloyd is around to voice Doc Brown, and Michael J. Fox makes a cameo near the end. They got other voice actors to play everyone else (including Marty McFly and the various Biffs), but they do a decent job. The music is great, right out of the movies. To be honest, if you go into this game expecting to be playing the movie (or an episode of the animated series), you'll know what you're in for.

I really enjoyed this series back when it first came out, but it isn't as good as TellTale's later attempts.

Although the story was creative and within the realm of the franchise, the story's conclusion left me wishing that something more was accomplished by the actions taken in the 5 episode arc. For instance, at the end of the BTTF 3 movie, Doc gets a wife and a few kids. Nowhere near that is accomplished by the game's conclusion. I did enjoy the Michael J Fox guest appearance, but the lacking conclusion to the story means I can't bring myself to give this last episode a thumbs up.

I only recommend the overall game on sale to fans of the BTTF movies. It is a a bare bones point & click linear adventure game with many mildly infuriating components, but the story is a fairly faithful 5 episode sequel to the BTTF movies. You play as Marty McFly in 1985 which starts with an homage to the first movie, but takes place after the 3 movies.