Grim Fandango (PC)

Grim Fandango is a 3D graphic adventure game brought to us by Lucas Arts, those lovely people of Star Wars fame. It was released upon an unsuspecting public back in 1998 in PC version (which is the one I am going to be rambling on about) and later made an appearance on the Playstation1 (which I have yet to find a copy of to play, so sorry, no comparisons here). It is a game I came to quite by accident, being lent a copy of it after expressing a liking for this genre of game - as ever a master of impeccable timing, I had only discovered them when they were beginning to die out. I am aware that many people will have something of a blank expression on their faces at this ...

Something’s afoot in the land of the dead… You play Manuel (Manny) Calevera, someone working his time before his soul can be atoned for – something like that, anyway – your character doesn’t actually know what he’s done wrong. Manny works for the agency that provide the transport package for the newly dead on their 4-year journey to wherever they’re going… the more good they did in their lives, the better the package they can “buy”… Things aren’t going his way, and at first he thinks it’s simply a bad clientele – but he soon learn that there’s a far more sinister reason… Coming from LucasArts, Grim Fandango is a 3D graphical adventure game. I’d ...

This adventure game starts in El Marrow where Mexican Manny Calavera is a travel agent in the land of the dead. When people die he goes to the land of the living to collect their souls, brings them back to El Marrow and sells them tickets for their four year journey to eternal rest. The best tickets are for luxury packages and can only be bought by those who have led a good life. Manny needs to sell lots of luxury packages to earn his way to eternal rest. Something strange is happening. None of Manny's clients merit a luxury package - they have either led bad lives or somebody has fixed the computer to make it look like they have. Enter Mercedes ...