It’s Your Doc Brown, Marty, Something Has Got to Be Done About Your Doc!
Finally we get a trailer for Telltale Games’ Back to the Future game, and it looks like ol’ Doc Brown got himself into a spot of trouble! I’ve got to say, I’m really loving the art style for this — it’s just cartoony enough that it seems to perfectly capture ’80s-era Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, but not so realistic that it’s off-putting. The voice acting is fantastic — hell, the fact that there are voices is nice. And hearing the music — complete with a bit of Huey Lewis and the News at the end — I couldn’t help but grin, and I’m hardly the world’s biggest BttF fan. What I’m saying that I’m reasonably confident this game will end up being a pretty good… time. Thanks to tredlow for the tip.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.