EuroGamer - I absolutely, categorically do not understand what everyone has against Escape From Monkey Island. While I admit I had been horribly wrong about The Curse Of Monkey Island, everyone else is entirely wrong about the fourth game in the series, and it's time for this mad prejudice to come to an end.
Cultured Vultures: We’ve taken into account every monkey, every eye patch and every undead pirate, so without further ado, here are the Monkey Island games across the franchise’s history ranked from worst to best.
Escape From Monkey Island, Sam & Max Hit the Road, and more.
Outlaws was a truly awesome game! And man, that soundtrack, nothing has beat it yet. It’s the game that created the western genre in gaming. RDR would of been nothing without this.
I imagine it probably hasn’t aged well but my god what a game it was for it’s day. I put in hundreds if not thousands of hours into that with my mates.
Star Wars Racer? That's awesome, the only way I could get it to run on a 64 bit pc was through emulation.
I played the bones off of some afterlife back in the day. I was hoping to see gladius but it wasn’t on there. I dug out the ps2 to play gladius like a year ago and it still holds up to this day. Such a fun game.
Cool but as the article mentions, you could get all these games from GOG already, which means there's a DRM free digital option too.
Escape from Monkey Island is now available, DRM-free and only on GOG.COM – the PC gaming platform where classics are saved from oblivion.
good to hear. this was the only of the Lucasarts adventures that hadnt been remastered or run under Scumm, so it was hard to play it on modern PCs
I know right? So I hope that more people will get a chance to play the game on modern PC's now =)
I already have the first three. Looks like I'll be picking this one up as well.
finished this on the playstation 2 back in 2001 , it's too bad they didn't use the same hand drawn art style as curse of monkey island which still looks the prettiest of all the monkey games
This guy hit the nail on the head. It's tied only with the second game for laughs as far as I'm concerned. Plus I totally agree about how well they handled the characters, Guybrush and Elaine in particular.
I mean yes, there were some trip-ups with the gameplay, but P&C adventure games are RARELY successful when they try to do things outside the standard "item-collection" puzzles. I don't know why this one in particular was received so terribly.
Loved this game so much.
The controls need some getting used to but other than that I think this is still a great adventure game.