Search Results for: Monkey Island

  • Bone: The Great Cow Race (PC)

    Reviews Reviews by Paul Franzen on

    ...fine (if not totally super keen awesome), but I’ve always preferred Monkey Island 3’s 2D cartoony look. As this game is based on a freakin’ comic book you’d think 2D...

  • Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom, or: LARPing in Disney World!

    Blog Posts Blog Posts by Paul Franzen on Comments6

    ...of Monkey Island. It’s purpose: to cast players in the lead role of their very own real-life adventure, and to give bored kids something to do when their younger siblings...

  • [NSFW] MadWorld (Wii)

    Reviews Reviews by Sprite Monkey on Comments1

    ...inside a knock-off of Manhattan island, which has been sealed off and used as the setting for violent death games, a la the Schwarzenegger movie The Running Man. You’re trying...

  • Carbonated News (September 2002)

    News Posts News Posts by Paul Franzen on

    ...mid-nineties hit Sam and Max Hit the Road, a LucasArts graphical adventure in the vein of Monkey Island and Grim Fanango. Details are scant at the moment, but with original...

  • Carbonated News (February 2004)

    News Posts News Posts by Paul Franzen on

    ...Will it go the way of Escape from Monkey Island, or will it be more of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? You be the judge! – Is the center of...

  • Carbonated News (April 2004)

    News Posts News Posts by Paul Franzen on

    ...was to be in 3D, and we all know what happened when Lucas Arts brought Monkey Island to the third dimension. Maybe it’s just better this way. – The dubiously...

  • Your Top 10 Favorite Games: Mark Muto

    Fan Submissions Fan Submissions by GameCola on

    ...one great mismosh of a good time. Forget Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle — they’re too well-known anyway, so liking them doesn’t make you cool anymore. Even though...

  • The Adventures of Willy Beamish (SCD)

    Reviews Reviews by Travis Combs on

    ...at the loading screens? We’ve all played games like these before: King’s Quest, Monkey Island, Gabriel Knight, Full Throttle. The list goes on and on. Willy Beamish isn’t quite in...

  • Sprung (DS)

    Reviews Reviews by Matt Gardner on

    ...64 DS-looking graphics. The 2D, Curse of Monkey Island-esque style of graphics is perfect for this game. The replay value is greatly hurt by the fact that you don’t have...

  • Nightshift Legacy: The Jaguar’s Eye (PC)

    Reviews Reviews by Carl Houghton on Comments1

    ...right direction for the ol’ p‘n’c games. However, on stepping into Jaguar’s Eye, I soon realized this was not quite the Monkey Island or Fate of Atlantis that I expected…....