Escape from Monkey Island (PS2)

...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 ...

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...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 ...

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...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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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...over the past few weeks, Escape from Monkey Island has been really exciting, It has gripped me so much that I really want to know what will happen next (I will not cheat and look up in a guide) and you won't be able to belive some of the major surprises in store! Graphics - 9 : Lucasarts took a huge leap this time round, from 2D to fully 3D. The characters we once knew in previous games are in glorious, if not blocky 3D graphics. The characters are ...
...and Music - 8 : Escape from Monkey Island has voice acting, which The Curse of Monkey Island also had. The same voice actors are back, acting as their characters, plus there are new actors, who are greeted with open hands. My two personal favourite voice actors are Dominic Armato, who plays Guybrush, and has one of the best voices in the world and Earl Boen, who plays LeChuck. The sound effects are okay, but not great, they either act on time, or ...

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This is my first review and therefore I hope you will all bear with me in case the format is not as you would normally expect, but I was so keen to add my opinions on this game I neglected to check out any other reviews first. I first became addicted to the Monkey Island series back in the days of the Atari 520 personal computer, granted I am a little older than many of you would be expecting to review these games but once hooked you keep coming ...
...this game to the PS2 with its wonderful graphics. This is basically a point and click type game where you, as the main character, Guybrush Threepwood have to wend your way through a miriad of tasks and puzzles to find the Ultimate Insult. You can react with other characters, items of furniture, ornaments pieces of equipment etc., etc.. You need to respond to tasks set by people you meet and solve puzzles as you go. Some problems require you to work ...

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General/Summary: The best game i ever have played on Playstation! both PSX and PS2!!, and the funniest game too =) If you ever have played Broken Sword games you recognize that they are a bit look a like these 2 games! Mr. Threepwood is a very funnt character with a very funny speach =) He tries to be ha cool guy but on the inside is he a looser!! =) This is the best Puzzle/adventure you can get, so go and buy it! Gameplay: The gameplay is one ...
...better! It's absolutely no ACTION, which i like very much. You go around in i think it is 3rd person view!?! i'm not sure =) and solve thousands of puzzles and talk to thousands of peoples which is very fun! But some of the puzzles is not special logical, but they aren't many! A very booring thing with the game is a thing at the end of the game called "Monkey combat". I tried very much but i never fixed it, so my father helped me =) But that is not ...

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...must as the title suggest Escape from Monkey Island and various other places. On the way you will be drawn into various hilarious antics and meet zany characters.Essential to this game is a sense of humour as it is very funny.A good hint for this game is to examine EVERYTHING as the puzzles you must solve involve combing various objects you may be holding together in order to complete the task.The colours in the game are bright and vivid and it ...

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I've been a Monkey Island fan since....as long as I can remember we had Monkey Island 1 and 2 for the Amiga in the 80's sometime, and loved it. Infact we never finished the 2nd one until we purchased the bounty pack somewhat 15 years on...now that was a long time of thinking how to get into the trapdoor to get that piece of map! When I heard Monkey Island 4 was out on PS2 i had to hit myself over the head with a rubber chicken (you'll see). I spent ...
...there are so few copies of the game around so you can't blame me for pushing my way through the crowds when I seen it in the bargain bin! I rushed home popped it into the console and wasn't dissapointed, i was hooked all over again, the way all the puzzles link together are brilliant for example knowing you need the wooden arm to feed to the fleas to eat walking stick but not knowing how to get the wooden arm, its great! you wont sleep until you've ...

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Escape from Monkey Island is an RPG Adenture that lures you into the game and leaves you on the edge of your seat wondering what's next. It's a really cool game in that it reeks of originality, even now years after it's release its cartoonish graphics set it apart in a way that it doesn't really look dated. It's thought provoking and really challenging and i'm sure anyone who plays it will enjoy it. Without giving too much away the main character ...
...Amiga games. Swashbuckling away whilst downing glass after glass o' grog. He's quite a loveable loser and captures the gamer instantly. The point of the game take over the Isle of Melee by basically out-insulting everyone in your path. If you had played previous editions of the game and liked them then I have to highly recommend this. From what I hear the PS2 version is much better to look at than even the PC version and the size of the game to explore ...

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...click games then you'll love escape from Monkey Island. You play the role of Guybrush Threepwood who has to piece together the ultimate insult before it falls into the wrong hands, in order to save the future of Melee Island and his wife the Governor. It took me months to complete this game (but this may have something to do with the fact my PS2 froze and everytime I loaded my saved game it froze at exactly the same place which ment I had to start ...
...really obvious solutions but other parts took a lot of thinking. You really need to pick up everything that you can, it may seem stupid or you think 'im never going to need 'sawdust' but you will and it's much easier to pick it up at the time than have to go back again at a later date. Talk to everyone and try all different options of dialogue sometimes you need to say a certain thing to someone to progress in the game. Some of the dialogue is quite ...

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