This is the fourth chapter of the Monkey Island series. As normal, prepare to find lots of salty humor and engaging game play from this legendary series. Loaded with lusciously rendered backgrounds and more monkeys than you can handle, Escape from Monkey features an original cinematic story full of drama. The game is highlighted by hundreds of challenging puzzles.
Point-and-clickPuzzleAdventureFantasyHistoricalComedypiratesghostsmechparodyhumourgraphic adventurebirddialogue treessailingtalking animalssingle-player onlymonkeyPC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation 2
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Character
Warm, comic, cool and resolved.
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
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About the game
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation 2
- Developer
- LucasArts
- Publisher
- Aspyr Media, LucasArts
- Released
- November 1, 2000
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Engine
- GrimE
- Time to beat
- 10 h main story · 18 h completionist
IGDB rating 8.2/10 from 156 ratings.
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Film · Both resolved, comic, warm.
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