The Secret Of Monkey Island (PC)

The Secret of Monkey Island is a fantastic puzzle/adventure game from the gracious people down at Lucas Arts. It entails the gripping story of Guybrush Threepwood and his quest to become a bloodthirsty pirate, he must undertake a good number of trials and square off against the evil ghost pirate LeChuck before he can finally realize his dream of pirate hood. What lies ahead is a combination of tricky puzzles and humorous, non-violent gaming. That's a recipe for FUN if ever I've heard one. For their time, the graphics of this game were truly magnificent. The backgrounds had a wonderful amount of detail to them, whether you're traveling through areas with lovely ...  Read the complete review

This was probably the first point-and-click game I ever played but it certainly wasn't my last. I personally tend to be fairly slow with this type of game and it seemed to take me much longer to finish than many other people, however I enjoyed playing it all the way through and feel that the fact it took me a while to finish simply added to the feeling I got from solving the puzzles and completing the game. --Story-- You control Guybrush Threepwood in his quest to become a mighty pirate, you arrive on Melee island with this goal in mind and soon find it isn't as simple as he thought it would be. To start with you need to complete 3 trials for the ...  Read the complete review

Having never played many of the "classics" of adventure gaming, I have none of the fond memories many relive while playing through their childhood favourites. I was concerned how well a game from the primitive times of 1990 would come across to me without nostalgia to mask its flaws. However, despite a pitiful colour range of 256 colours and small collection of MIDI tracks, the VGA version of Secret of Monkey Island still oozes charm from every blocky pore. Coming out several months after the original release, it drastically increased the game's colour palette selection from 16 to 256 colours, giving the game a much smoother, textured appearance. While a pithy ...  Read the complete review

I HAVE PLAYED THIS GAME-THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND IN THE BOUNTY PACK VERSION. With this game being roughly as old as me, i obviously did not play it when it originally came out, but having borrowed the bounty pack and playing the third installment of this excellent series, i decided to play the first and thought it needed a review fast. If no-one has heard of Monkey Island, i'd just like to say that everyone who i know who has heard of it has got it, so now you have, please get it. You play as Guybrush Threepwood, a migthy wannabee pirate who lives on Melee Island™, or is there at the time of this particular game. Alls that he wants in ...  Read the complete review

For all the nostaglic people in the audience, Im going to tell you about a great set of "tongue in cheek" cartoon acventure games that go by the name of Monkey Island. Strange name I know and an even stranger game! Whats more, it was a number 1 best seller every time the next version of the game came out. How to describe it? Well, think of it as an unsexy Lara Croft/Tomb Raider type game but with more gags and less plot. Rather than missions in our world, they are based in the swashbuckling world of pirates and mystical sea dogs! So what is in the pack? Well you have 3 versions of the game in this pack. all have a different story ...  Read the complete review