Escape from Monkey Island
| Escape from Monkey Island | |
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| Developer(s) | LucasArts |
| Publisher(s) | LucasArts |
| Designer(s) |
Sean Clark Michael Stemmle |
| Artist(s) | Chris Miles |
| Writer(s) | Sean Clark Michael Stemmle |
| Composer(s) |
Clint Bajakian Michael Land Peter McConnell Anna Karney Michael Lande |
| Series | Monkey Island |
| Engine |
GrimE iMUSE |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, PlayStation 2 |
| Release date(s) |
Microsoft Windows Mac OS
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| Genre(s) | Graphic adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Review scores | ||
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| Publication | Score | |
| PC | PS2 | |
| AllGame |   |
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| Edge | 5 of 10 | N/A |
| EGM | N/A | 9 of 10 |
| Eurogamer | 9 of 10 | N/A |
| Game Informer | 8.25 of 10 | 8.5 of 10 |
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| Game Revolution | B+ | B+ |
| GameSpot | 8.1 of 10 | 8.1 of 10 |
| GameSpy | 85% | 91% |
| GameZone | 8.5 of 10 | 7.9 of 10 |
| IGN | 8.7 of 10 | 8.7 of 10 |
| OPM (US) | N/A | |
| PC Gamer (US) | 85% | N/A |
| Maxim | N/A | 6 of 10 |
| Playboy | N/A | 85% |
| Aggregate scores | ||
| GameRankings | 83.78% | 83.29% |
| Metacritic | 86 of 100 | 84 of 100 |
Escape from Monkey Island is a computer adventure game developed and released by LucasArts in 2000. It is the fourth game in the Monkey Island series and the first one to use 3D graphics.
The game centers on the pirate Guybrush Threepwood, who returns home with his wife Elaine Marley after their honeymoon, to find her erroneously declared dead, and her office of governor up for election. Guybrush must find a way to restore Elaine to office, while uncovering a plot to turn the Caribbean into a tourist trap, headed by his nemesis LeChuck and an Australian conspirator Ozzie Mandrill.
Escape was the last of LucasArts' adventure games to be released. It was also the second and last game to use the GrimE engine, which was upgraded from its first use in Grim Fandango.
Escape from Monkey Island is an adventure game that consists of dialogue with characters and solving puzzles. The game is controlled entirely with the keyboard or alternatively with a joystick, making it the only non-point-and-click game in the Monkey Island series.
A feature of the game are action-lines: Guybrush will glance at any items that can be interacted with; the player can use 'Page Up' or 'Page Down' to select the item that he wants Guybrush to look at.
One of the hallmark aspects of the Monkey Island games, the insult swordfighting — the sword duels which were won by knowing the appropriate insults and responses — is briefly touched upon in the game as "insult armwrestling", and in an unwinnable insult duel against Ozzie Mandrill. In the second part of the game, the insult games are replaced by "Monkey Kombat", the name being a parody of Mortal Kombat with a symbol to match. Monkey Kombat is a sub-game akin to rock-paper-scissors, where the player needs to memorize lines of "monkey insults and retorts" which consist of per-game randomized compositions of "monkey words" like "oop", "chee", "ack" and "eek".
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