![]() ![]() ![]() Video games are certainly capable of offering equal, sometimes even more visceral entertainment to films/TV when it comes to creeping you out ( BioShock) or making you laugh ( Portal), but I’ve never heard someone say a game with shitty game-play was good because of the dialogue or awesome camerawork in a cutscene. Normally I’d call bullshit on something like that, but I don’t include video games in Franchise Me for the simple reason that video games and films/TV are such completely different things. I watched youtube videos of someone else playing it (thanks Internet nerds!). ![]() I should note right off the bat here that I didn’t actually play the Back to the Future: The Game. A clusterfuck of multiple timelines, unexpected romances, and various ancestors ensues. So Marty travels back to the Prohibition era and gets tangled up with mobsters, a young Emmett Brown, and Edna Strickland, the equally authoritarian sister of slacker-hating Principal Strickland. After some sleuthing Marty discovers that Doc became trapped in 1931, blamed for burning down a speakeasy belong to (of course) an ancestor of Biff. Then one day, the DeLorean mysteriously arrives back in town empty. Unable to tell anyone the truth, obviously, Marty had to let the rest of Hill Valley assume that Doc has disappeared. The last time he saw Doc, Doc was flying away in a time-traveling train with his wife and two creepy sons. Only this time, instead of terrorists showing up for the least inconspicuous assassination ever, Doc Brown creepily winks out of existence. We join Marty and Doc in the familiar Twin Pines mall parking lot scene from the first film. The Installment: Back to the Future: The Game (2010, 2011) From 1985 to 1992, the franchise spanned three films and an animated television series. Emmett “Doc” Brown, and Brown’s creation, a 1981 DeLorean DMC-12 that has been modified into a time-machine. The Franchise: Back to the Future: following the time-traveling adventures of teenager Marty McFly, eccentric inventor Dr. ![]() I have donned my sweats and taken up cinema’s gauntlet. But a champion has risen from the rabble to defend us. And any film, no matter how seemingly stand-alone, conclusive, or inappropriate to sequel, could generate an expansive franchise. Horror, action, comedy, sci-fi, western, no genre is safe. ![]()
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