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Escape from Monkey Island
Released On: Nov 8, 2000
86
7.7
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
86
88% Positive
28 Reviews
28 Reviews
13% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
86
88% Positive
28 Reviews
28 Reviews
13% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
This comic farce will leave you rolling on the floor with laughter and provide hours of enjoyment, a healthy dose of good-natured, unadulterated fun, and more monkeys than every other game combined.
I haven’t laughed so much, nor have I had so much fun playing a game in ages.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 124 User Ratings
7.7
60% Positive
75 Ratings
75 Ratings
34% Mixed
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
6% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 124 User Ratings
7.7
60% Positive
75 Ratings
75 Ratings
34% Mixed
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
6% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
As with most adventure games, it's startlingly linear, but don't you dare let that rob you of the experience; this is a game that should be bought, played and cherished.
While the glitches are definitely frustrating, and the polish is lacking at times, overall this is a welcome return to the eeps and oops of your childhood.
A terrifically funny, beautiful and great sounding game. A few bugs may mar the experience at points, but they don't hamper the fun.
A quality adventure game even though the restyling of the old locations on Mêlée Island and Monkey Island is a bit of a mixed bag. The ending is long, satisfying and almost as disturbingly weird.
EMI is not a bad game but it will never join its brethren in the panoply of gods of the genre. I for one would like to see LucasArts get out of the sequel to sequel to sequel business altogether and focus solely on new ideas.
Definetely doesn't deserve all the hate it had, at least back in the day. The graphics, at least for characters are not very appealing and the monkey combat was simply stupid, but everything else is just what you can expect from a Monkey island, definetely a good game in the saga, just probably not as good as the 3 previous ones.
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Everything has already been said I think. Less than optimal controls, some annoying puzzles, and the "Herman bug" which necessitated downloading someone elses savegame.
Die hard Monkey Island fans should play it, but if you have no special feelings for MI, better stay away.
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PC
One of the weaker entries in the series. It had it's charm and it's gags, but they didn't feel that fresh and the engine brought it down a notch
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In regards to the 2018 re-release, the biggest flaw about EFMI is its horrific controls. I get it that it was a game that (for some reason) had a PS2 release, but the PC version should have been able to utilize the mouse as lining up Guybrush using use the arrow keys to get anywhere is just impossible. Not to mention the poor keybinds that spreads everything across the keyboard. Just what was LucasArts thinking?
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Summary Join pencil-neck pirate Guybrush Threepwood as one of the best graphical PC adventure games comes to the PS2 totally intact and offbeat as ever.
Rated T
for Teen
Platforms:
- PlayStation 2
- PC
Initial Release Date: Nov 8, 2000
Developer:
- LucasArts
Publisher: LucasArts
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