Escape from Monkey Island
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Escape from Monkey Island is an adventure developed by LucasArts, released 1 November 2000 on PlayStation 2, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 10.3 hrs to finish.
What Escape from Monkey Island is
Escape from Monkey Island is an adventure game developed by LucasArts and released in 2000. It was published by Aspyr Media. It is available on PlayStation 2, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GrimE.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Escape from Monkey Island is a 2000 adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It is the fourth game in the Monkey Island series, and the sequel to The Curse of Monkey Island (1997). The game was first released for Microsoft Windows in November 2000, and was ported to Mac OS and PlayStation 2 in 2001. It is the first game in the series to use 3D graphics, and the second game to use the GrimE engine, which was upgraded from its first use in Grim Fandango (1998).
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Monkey Island series
Escape from Monkey Island is the fourth of 7 entries we hold in the Monkey Island series. It arrived 3 years after The Curse of Monkey Island. The next entry was Monkey Island Special Edition Collection in 2011. Its critic score of 90 is 3 points above the series average of 87. The highest-rated entry is Return to Monkey Island at 92.
How it was received
Escape from Monkey Island holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Players rate it 82, 8 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 10.3 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 18.2 hrs, roughly 1.8 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM and 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c and 256 MB VRAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
Escape from Monkey Island launched on 1 November 2000, within three weeks of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Counter-Strike and Zeus: Master of Olympus. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Counter-Strike, Zeus: Master of Olympus.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Escape from Monkey Island yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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