Escape from Monkey Island (PS2)

Advantages: Its monkey isalnd enough said
Disadvantages: NONE

...so pleased to see that Escape From Monkey Island was going to be released on PS2 (because its the best adventure game series ever)! Well now the greatest Adventure game series has hit PS2 and my god is it good! This time around its all in 3D, theres no point and click, you use the PS2's analouge sticks to move the main character (Guybrush Threepwood, oh yeah he's a mighty pirate) around. This may seem strange given that monkey island is traditionally ...
...same old monkey island. This game is the 4th in the series and its probably the 2nd best, becuase Monkey Island 2 is still the best in my eyes. Anyway the story is, Guybrush Threepwood and Eiaine Threepwood(formely Elaine Marley), are now husband and wife. They have been on their honeymoon, sailing the seven seas, but when they return things are very different. Elaine and Guybrush have been declared dead and Elaine has lost her position as govener ... Read review

Advantages: great game, cheap
Disadvantages: cheesy jokes

...to borrow a copy of Escape from Monkey Island, I grabbed at it with both hands. I didn’t realize there was a PS2 version, but luckily for me this is the format it arrived to me in, as pointing and clicking with a mouse can get a bit wrist numbing after a while. *****MADE BY**** Escape from Monkey Island is made by Lucas Arts (also make a lot of Star Wars games for the PS2, PC and Xbox). Check them out at www.LucasArts.com. *****GAME BACKGROUND***** ...
...know weird name). There are three previous versions in the Monkey Island series (none of which I have played), but according to the book, Guybrush defeated the evil enemy (you know the one you always get) and married his sweetheart and sailed off into the sunset. So here he is, trying to find THE ULTIMATE INSULT. His beloved wife is the Governor of Melee Island where the game is set, and she is standing for re-election against the evil man Ghost ... Read review

Advantages: Great innovation and originality
Disadvantages: Not ground-breaking

...one of life-s little leasures. Escape from Monkey Island gives you the chance to lay on the verbal pain, free from the fear of burly men breaking your face after you have asked them if they are suffering from elephantiasis of the ugly gland. Encounters that would in any other action game play out with explosives and tests of button mashing strength, here take the form of viscious slanging matches. Your rival disses you, then you choose the most ...
...of shooting action fool yu, Escape from Monkey Island looks set to be one of the PS2's most enjoyable adventures to date. There isstacks of top-quality dialogue in Monkey Island and the voic acting is spot on. Conversations can be lengthy theough, and teasing the next clue from the misfit you are chatting with isn't for impatient adventurers. The good thing is that the twisted humour that appears throughout the game is even funnier in these dialogue ... Read review

Advantages: control, options, graphics, humor
Disadvantages: needs a lot of patience and wit

I must begin by stating once again, as aformentioned in my Twisted Metal review, I am not much for video games....at all. However, my room mate had rented this game a few weeks back and after getting a bit tipsy off of some pineapple voldka I finally gave into his insistent begs for me to try it. Now, while drunk it wasn't much, due to the fact I couldn't quite figure out how to work the controller, but I came back to it the following day, and behold, ...
...in the pirate days and you play the main character, Guybrush Threepwood, who everyone more or less looks at as a rather failing and sadly attempt to be a pirate. He is married to the governer of his home island, Elaine Marley. Anyone who is crossed with this information laughs hysterically at him in disbelief. The game is completely filled with humor. From the man who sells pirate prostheses, and you hear stories to get some free ones, then dig through ... Read review

Advantages: Comedy storyline, Nice bright graphics, Insult Arm wrestling, Great Voice acting
Disadvantages: Puzzles can be a bit complex/weird, Movement of character takes a little getting used too.

The story is as follows, are you sitting comfortably? You play Guybrush Threepwood a rather pathetic pirate who is married to Elaine Marley Threepwood a swash buckling heroin of Hollywood proportions. The story starts straight after the Curse of Monkey Island so you have just come back to Melee Island and because you have been away so long the arch rival politician Charles L Charles has declared Elaine dead and thus himself the new Governor of the ...
...who is coming in and buying up the whole island to turn it into a tourist resort. Your job should you decide to accept it is to find the land owner, save the island and get Elaine reinstated. Simple! The graphics are really good, not earth shattering but they are nice, bright and cartoon like (hey i'm a kid at heart!). The movement of the character is also good (a lot better than trying to make Tanner run from car to car in Driver 2!). However the ... Read review