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Part of what makes a successful tribute game successful is a faithful adherence to the source material. In this, Get Tannen is a resounding success. The main characters are predictable but exceedingly entertaining: the Tannens are unabashedly evil, the McFlys are victims to the end, and the Marty as the energetic, wisecracking kid is none the worse for wear, three movies and one franchised game notwithstanding. Likewise, the secondary characters are compelling if not also somewhat stereotypical (as to be expected, for the 80s movie genre in general): there is the straight-laced prohibitionist woman, the drunken Irish cop in a moral quandry, and a beautiful if somewhat gullible lounge singer caught in the midst of her gangster boyfriend's misdeeds. The characters fit into our comfortable mold of cops and gangsters and drive the plot along well.
As in the previous installment, the voice acting is exceptional, and helps draw the player into the game. The ever increasingly ludicrous situations are both hilarious and instructive; if there is to be any criticism, it may be that the solutions to the puzzles are a little too obvious. Again, this isn't necessarily a bad thing, as the overall flow and pacing of the game isn't interrupted by meaningless sliding tile or jumping puzzles as in some lesser games. It's clear that the intended goal of the developers was to tell a good story, rather than to stump the player. The overall feel and excellent quality of the production reflects the passion that they have for the source material.
Having said that, the only main gripe I have is that the game is feels a bit too short, even for an episodic game. The whole episode can easily be finished in less than two hours; for a five episode game, that averages out to a total of ten hours of gameplay: a duration that would be overly long for a movie, but far too short for an adventure game.
At any rate, given its bargain pricing and excellent production quality, I would recommend this installment to fans of the series as well as fans of good adventure games in general.