One fun feature of the series is the insult sword-fighting mechanic. This is where the player trades insults with an opponent to determine the winner. Like many of the games on this list, the Monkey Island games have been remastered; complete with improved graphics and audio.
Full Throttle was an ambitious game for the time. It blended point and click adventure gameplay with action sequences. There was still the typical adventure game puzzle solving, but the game also featured fighting and vehicular combat.
The player controls the lantern-jawed protagonist simply known as Ben as he tries to save the founder of Corely Motors, a motorcycle manufacturer, and restore the good name of his gang. The voice acting is superb, and features Mark Hamill as the antagonist Adrian Ripburger. Impressive for the time anyway. This excellent adventure game based on the Indiana Jones franchise was actually released twice.
The first time was on disks and had written dialogue; the second release was on CD-ROM and had spoken dialogue and greatly improved audio. The voice acting was well-done, and the actor chosen for Indiana Jones sounds very similar to Harrison Ford. Fate of Atlantis is a devilishly hard adventure game, but also an extremely fun one. This game received numerous awards, including adventure game of the year The game features numerous paths toward victory, which increases the replay value substantially.
You will be glad you did - just be ready to consult Google for answers to some of the puzzles. This title was released in , and was an exclusive for the Nintendo GameCube. It is a flight simulator with tons of arcade action set, of course, in the Star Wars universe.
The graphics are some of the best to be found on the GameCube. Seriously, this game could easily be confused with a PS3 game the graphics are so good. The game also features the Star Wars music composed by John Williams and voice samples from the movies. The orchestral score really heightens the tension of the action.
It was Grossman's last project for LucasArts before leaving in Day of the Tentacle ' s music was composed by Michael Land, Clint Bajakian and Peter McConnell, who composed the themes for the future, past and present settings of the game respectively. Day of the Tentacle was the first game to drop support for older, less successful platforms, instead initially releasing only for DOS and Mac OS. The game was one of the first video games to feature a full voice soundtrack upon its release.
As with Day of the Tentacle , the game featured a full voice soundtrack upon release. The players' interaction with the game's environment was redesigned. Command functions were compressed into a number of cursor modes instead of having a list of verb actions to choose from on screen, and the inventory system was moved to an off-screen menu. The more streamlined interface allowed for more of the screen to be dedicated to gameplay.
Land, Bajakian and McConnell returned to score the game's music. While Bajakian did not compose any further LucasArts adventure games, he was still involved with sound production in later titles. In , after a year-long hiatus from adventure games, LucasArts released Full Throttle. Full Throttle was designed by Tim Schafer, and follows the story of a biker in a dystopian future who has been framed for murder. Later in , The Dig was published. Production had started in , however The Dig was plagued with development problems.
The game's story itself was envisioned by Steven Spielberg , who had concluded that a film version would be prohibitively expensive. Spielberg's story focused on a group of astronauts becoming stranded on an alien world while on a mission to stop an asteroid hitting Earth.
Michael Land composed the game's music, which included excerpts from Richard Wagner's work. The game was the third entry in the Monkey Island series, and the first not to involve series creator Ron Gilbert. Development was instead led by Jonathan Ackley and Larry Ahern. For its final outing, the SCUMM engine was completely overhauled to produce significantly more advanced graphics than any previous LucasArts adventure game. The resulting distinct cartoon style was created by artist Bill Tiller.
The Curse of Monkey Island featured slightly refined gameplay based on the pie menu interface used in Full Throttle. The character of Guybrush Threepwood returns, with a voice actor for the first time in the series, in an effort to save his girlfriend from a voodoo curse. Michael Land once again composed the game's score.
Grim Fandango introduced 3D graphics in the form of the GrimE engine. Full-motion video cut scenes are used to advance the plot, stylized to be nearly indistinguishable from the in-game backgrounds. GrimE was also a true 3D engine: characters are collections of 3D-rendered polygons.
The game follows the tale of Manny Calavera, a travel agent in the Land of the Dead, as he becomes embroiled in a web of crime and corruption. As well as drawing inspiration from Aztec concepts of the afterlife , Grim Fandango is strongly rooted in film noir tradition.
Released in , the game is the fourth installment in the Monkey Island series. The game's development was led by Sean Clark and Michael Stemmle. The GrimE technology was slightly modified for the game, although Escape from Monkey Island was in most respects similar to Grim Fandango in both graphics and gameplay. Escape from Monkey again follows Guybrush Threepwood, this time attempting to deal with an Australian land developer attempting to eradicate piracy through a voodoo talisman.
The game's music was written by Michael Land. The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition updated the original game with high resolution artwork. In June , LucasArts announced an enhanced remake of the title The Secret of Monkey Island , with the intent of bringing the old game to a new audience. Described by British journalist John Walker as a "cautious toe in the water" for LucasArts, [6] the move was prompted by LucasArts president Darrell Rodriguez, who had assumed the post only two months prior.
The special edition featured new high definition art and music played by a live orchestra. Following the success of the first special edition, LucasArts released the sequel, Monkey Island 2 Special Edition , in the summer of This time, since the game used the iMuse system, the engine had to be modified to run the new live orchestra music in various arrangements that simulated the shift in tone and pitch from scene to scene that iMuse performed on the original midi music.
The second special edition featured a change in control scheme as well as a change in art direction due to criticism of the first special edition. Following the release of Escape from Monkey Island in , LucasArts put three further adventure games into development. However, all three were later canceled.
The first of these was Full Throttle: Payback , a sequel to Full Throttle that began production in early According to Tiller, however, Payback eventually fell apart because of disagreements over the game's style between the development team and "a particularly influential person" within the management division. Production ceased in November , when a quarter of the levels and about 40 percent of the preproduction art were complete.
Another Full Throttle sequel began production in In contrast to the original Full Throttle , Hell on Wheels was to be an action-adventure game. Development was headed by Sean Clark, his last work for the company. Hell on Wheels was showcased at the Electronic Entertainment Expo , where a playable demonstration and a teaser trailer were displayed. Despite this, LucasArts halted production in late Survival , Adventure , Underwater , Atmospheric.
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