The CG rendered backgrounds are pretty good, but the character models have a noticeably low polygon count. The shift to 3D graphics may have seemed like an improvement when it was released, but time has taught us that it really wasn’t. At least there’s a feature which lets you immediately exit the screen you’re in. This may shatter the soul of long-time PC gamers, but Escape from Monkey Island really is best played with a gamepad. Interacting with objects is also a pain, since you either need to use different keys to look at or use different items, or use the Page Up/Down keys to cycle through multiple objects. There are options for both character-relative (the much loathed tank controls) or screen-relative (where up is always up regardless of the camera angle), but both are fiddly, and neither are completely comfortable. All of the backgrounds are pre-rendered, while the characters are all polygonal models, making it feel a bit more like Alone in the Dark and Resident Evil. The point-and-click interface is also completely gone, replaced with an awkward direct control scheme. Guybrush must naturally escape and do what he must to save the dignity of all pirate-dom.Įscape from Monkey Island uses the GrimE engine, which was initially built for Grim Fandango. Once he discovers all of the pieces of the Ultimate Insult on Jambalaya Island, he is captured by LeChuck and Ozzie, and sent back into the (not quite) terrifying jungles of Monkey Island. Guybrush first runs into trouble when he’s framed for a bank robbery and is detained on Lucre Island until he clears his name. Charles, who is very clearly (ahem) not LeChuck in disguise. Meanwhile, Elaine is trying to prove herself not-dead, and runs for re-election against the mysterious Charles L. His true plan, as it eventually unfurls, is to discover the Ultimate Insult, words in a language so ancient that they pierce directly into the soul and turn any mortal into a mortified shell of a man. His plans? Overhaul the entire Caribbean and turn it into a huge tourist trap, destroying the pirate populace and replacing it with family friendly restaurants and amusement park rides.

Guybrush sets off to find out why, only to run into an evil Australian real estate mogul named Ozzie Mandrill. They spend a few months at sea on a honeymoon, only to return to Mêlée Island and find that the Governor has been declared legally dead. The Curse of Monkey Island ended with Guybrush burying LeChuck under a glacier and finally marrying Elaine Marley.

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