The Secret of Monkey Island
The Secret of Monkey Island is a video game that consists of 6 releases
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16 User Reviews
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Hating Secret of Monkey Island is like hating having a good time.
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It’s possible to not like The Secret Monkey Island. It’s also possible to not like good things in general. I’ve always wondered what makes old games age well. What tangible component that a game could have, mechanically or from a presentation standpoint that allows a gamer to pick up a ...
Reviewed by vidiot on July 22, 2009
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The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition review
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Behind the glossy veneer of this update lies the same classic but dated adventure.The Secret of Monkey Island is one of the undisputed classics of the adventure gaming genre. It holds fond memories for a huge number of people, and pretty much served as the template for all the Lucasarts ...
Reviewed by Mukor on July 15, 2009
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Great remake of a great game.
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I loved the original game back when I played it, and it was very cool to get to replay through it again. The ability to switch back to the old graphics is very fun to mess around with. What more can be said? It is an exact remake of one ...
Reviewed by Jon_Danger on July 23, 2009
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Refreshingly fun
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The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is a fairly clever adventure game that starts out strong and never really lets up. I missed the original game when it first came out and I was very excited to try this one out when the remake was released. The game looks very ...
Reviewed by threeolivez on July 25, 2009
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So you want to be a pirate, eh? You look more like a flooring ins
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It might be hard to grasp but back in the ’90s LucasArts were at the forefront of the adventure game genre. They may not have always received the commercial success they deserved, but critically, and amongst fans, LucasArts created some of the greatest games to ever grace the genre. The ...
Reviewed by ElectricBoogaloo on July 27, 2009
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Dominic Armato continues to kill my childhood (XBLM version)
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Do old school adventure games deserve the imminent come back being promised by Lucas Arts? Definitely, but unfortunately The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition is probably not the best poster child for this comeback. This new version updates the original with new animation and music but fails to deliver with its voice acting.The ...
Reviewed by boj4ngles on July 27, 2009
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Does A Rotten Banana Lurk Behind This Shiny Coat Of Paint?
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Ahoy mateys. Yea scurvy dogs, best be ready to walk the plank if yea shy away from Monkey Island. That wimp Guybrush Threepwood can't become a pirate and save a governess from a dead captain by himself, ya know? Okay, enough poorly written pirate talk. By now, the secret is ...
Reviewed by bshirk on July 29, 2009
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Arragh! Monkey Island deserves a special edition!
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About 20 years ago, Lucasarts released a game that would live forever as a classic and amazingly it wasn’t Star Wars related. It was, of course, The Secret of Monkey Island, the game that first introduced us to Guybrush Threepwood, Le Chuck and the chicken with a pulley in ...
Reviewed by Seraphim2150 on Aug. 28, 2009
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Getting funky like a monkey
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I quickly found myself relating to Guybrush Threepwood’s voyage into the mysterious and deadly . I was also venturing to a strange and foreign land, that being the forsaken territory of the point and click adventure genre. I’ve always preferred the dry lands of the consoles over the PC’s ...
Reviewed by CanuckEh on Aug. 12, 2009
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The Secret Of Monkey Island SE: Yes You Can Have Your Cake And Ea
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Introduction: The Secret Of Monkey Island is pretty much the Monty Python of video games.Revered,memorised and quoted ad nauseam...by those who were old enough to enjoy it at the time of it's original release in 1991. I was two in 1991 and to steal a line from Jeremy Clarkson, my ...
Reviewed by EdIsCool on Aug. 12, 2009
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Do the Monkey with me!
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Monkey Island is one of those franchises that I remember playing way back in primary school. I used to ride my bike over to my mates place just to play adventure games like Monkey Island, Space Quest, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, among others. The news of a ...
Reviewed by makari on July 18, 2009
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Pirates are just plain awesome!
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There should be no point in writing this review becauseYou should have already played this gameIf you haven't, there's absolutely no talking to youBut I'll go on with it anyway so in that unusual case you really haven't played it, I can give you some good reasons to grab a ...
Reviewed by CoinMatze on July 21, 2008
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The Great Adventure Game Franchise of all Time( 1 of 3 )
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Secret of Monkey Island has to be the pinnacle of adventure games during the Golden Era of video games. As games built on the Scumm Engine this probably what fueled the critical success of the LucasArts games division during the early 90's. Ron Gilbert has created one of the most ...
Reviewed by CrazySickPsycho on July 23, 2008
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A Perfect Trip Down Memory Lane
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Short and Sweet: great game!!!!!! loved every moment of it, no major complaints if you like humor and adventure go buy this game its great the jokes are even better with voice acting and the graphics are sweet and add a lot to the game.Game Length: about 5-6 hours, 1.5-3 ...
Reviewed by tactis on July 21, 2009
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Van Redd Reviews: The Secret of Monkey Island
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veryone ready for a trip through the wayback machine? I recently finished the new version of the classic Lucasarts adventure game The Secret of Monkey Island. It is a old school point and click kind of game from the early 90s. The Monkey Island series is renowned as one of ...
Reviewed by VanRedd on Sept. 30, 2009
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I can't believe I never played this
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It's a terrible tragedy that I never played this game before. Really, at 37 I'm certainly old enough, and I've been playing games since my Apple IIC days in 6th grade, so there's no good excuse. I chalk it up to a traumatic King's Quest experience, the less said about, ...
Reviewed by Rick_Dakan on July 22, 2009
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| Aliases | The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition |
