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 ...  Read the complete review

GRIM FANDANGO I'm a big fan of Lucas Arts games. I used to love Monkey Island and Loom when I had an old Atari ST computer. As soon as I got my first PC I bought Monkey Island as I loved the humour and the puzzles. Unfortunately I wasn't on the internet back then so I rarely got to the end of a game as I'm not the world's best game player -but I had loads of fun trying to move on to the next level. I saw the Grim Fandango game second hand at a carboot. It looked in good condition and I only paid £4 for it so I wasn't going to be upset if it was crappy. Little did I know that I'd just happened upon the best game of all time! The graphics ...  Read the complete review

Grim Fandango is a 1998 LucasArts PC graphic adventure game which takes place in The Land of The Dead. Its mechanics are in a similar vain to that of Monkey Island, in that the player must converse with NPCs through simple conversation trees, collect items, and utilize items in their inventory in conjunction with their environment in order to progress. The player assumes the role of Manuel Calavera, a man who has long passed on, and now eeks out a living in one of the many afterlifes, The Ninth Underworld, working as a Grim Reaper for the Department of Death. Sound interesting? The game is incredibly stylish, drawing heavily on such classic noir movies as ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review