This is our first look at Telltale's upcoming Back to the Future series of adventure games. If you've seen and enjoyed any of the three films, you'll get a kick outta this.
It's gonna be available on PSN, PC and iPad with a 5 episode release take place 6 months after the events of the third film. The stylistic cartoony look appeals to me and we got Christopher Lloyd reprising his role as Doc Brown.
But the main reason you should all watch the video is for the guy doing the voice for our main man Marty McFly. You'd be convinced that it's Michael J. Fox doing the voice but as you all know, he can't do that anymore. No, it's some kid name A.J. Locascio, and after all this, he will be known as the "guy who sounds just like Michael J. Fox".
Old school platformers that required pixel perfect jumps, precise timing and being extremely difficult is an existing formula that's been around since the old arcade games but with games now, most of them hold your hand or are just vastly different and complicated. Super Meat Boy goes back to the early roots of gaming like your Super Marios or old school Castlevanias but I guess the most current game that you can best compare Super Meat Boy to is N+ which is a platformer that almost everything can hurt you and one touch sends your character's body parts hurling every which way.
Super Meat Boy may sound simple, run, jump, avoid things, reach the goal. However, most people can underestimate such simplicity. I can ramble on about how side scrolling platforms are still awesome blah blah blah, just watch the video to see what I mean and how awesome this game is.
Meat Boy is originally a flash game so that brings in the argument of "why will I buy a game if I can play it for free?". You see at 1:31 all those little Meat Boys running, jumping and dying? That's a replay function that takes all your attempts at the level and plays them all at the same time, so you can a dozen to a hundred Meat Boys jumping on screen after every level and that for me is very cool, like a prize for all your hard work on a stage that makes your blood pressure rise.
Super Meat Boy is already out on Xbox Live Arcade and will be coming soon to WiiWare and Steam for the PC. I find it strange that they didn't shell out a Playstation Network release. If you have a Wii, an Xbox 360 or a PC, you have to play this game.
