The game has one of the best humors I've ever seen in a video game, lots of good jokes with good dialogue between the characters. This is probably the older game that I can think of that made the writ… Read more
Struggling through memory lane Monkey Island was one of the first adventure games I played, back in the days of yonder when I barely spoke English. Some puzzles I still remembered, some puzzles I was… Read more
Was there some sort of mandate in the early 90s that made every adventure game come automatically with some kind of boring grind area? This game is really cool and sometimes pretty funny, but almost e… Read more
The LucasArts classic adventure game The Secret of Monkey Island has weathered the test of time better than most other adventure games of its era. LOOM , Day of the Tentacle , and their contemporaries… Read more
Struggling through memory lane Monkey Island was one of the first adventure games I played, back in the days of yonder when I barely spoke English. Some puzzles I still remembered, some puzzles I was… Read more
As a child I loved the Monkey island series, their humour and story always kept me coming back from more and I subsequently played through all four instalments. So naturally I was very interested in t… Read more
Here's my review of the Secret of Monkey Island (Special Edition). Read more
The Secret of Monkey Island marks the beginning of a distinguished adventure franchise held in high regard, and this Special Edition for the Xbox Live Arcade does nothing to tarnish that reputation. T… Read more
The Special Edition of the original Monkey Island isn't a perfect upgrade, but it's a very accessible one that adds full voice acting, redone music, revamped graphics that are mostly quite attractive,… Read more
veryone ready for a trip through the wayback machine? I recently finished the new version of the classic Lucasarts adventure game The Secret of Monkey Island. It is a old school point and click kind o… Read more
About 20 years ago, Lucasarts released a game that would live forever as a classic and amazingly it wasn’t Star Wars related. It was, of course, The Secret of Monkey Island, the game that first introd… Read more
Introduction: The Secret Of Monkey Island is pretty much the Monty Python of video games.Revered,memorised and quoted ad nauseam...by those who were old enough to enjoy it at the time of it's original… Read more
I quickly found myself relating to Guybrush Threepwood’s voyage into the mysterious and deadly . I was also venturing to a strange and foreign land, that being the forsaken territory of the point and… Read more
Ahoy mateys. Yea scurvy dogs, best be ready to walk the plank if yea shy away from Monkey Island. That wimp Guybrush Threepwood can't become a pirate and save a governess from a dead captain by himsel… Read more
Do old school adventure games deserve the imminent come back being promised by Lucas Arts? Definitely, but unfortunately The Secret of Monk ey Island Special Edition is probably not the best poster ch… Read more
It might be hard to grasp but back in the ’90s LucasArts were at the forefront of the adventure game genre. They may not have always received the commercial success they deserved, but critically, and… Read more
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is a fairly clever adventure game that starts out strong and never really lets up. I missed the original game when it first came out and I was very excited… Read more
I loved the original game back when I played it, and it was very cool to get to replay through it again. The ability to switch back to the old graphics is very fun to mess around with. What more can b… Read more
It’s possible to not like The Secret Monkey Island. It’s also possible to not like good things in general. I’ve always wondered what makes old games age well. What tangible component that a game could… Read more
It's a terrible tragedy that I never played this game before. Really, at 37 I'm certainly old enough, and I've been playing games since my Apple IIC days in 6th grade, so there's no good excuse. I cha… Read more
Short and Sweet: great game!!!!!! loved every moment of it, no major complaints if you like humor and adventure go buy this game its great the jokes are even better with voice acting and the graphics… Read more
Monkey Island is one of those franchises that I remember playing way back in primary school. I used to ride my bike over to my mates place just to play adventure games like Monkey Island, Space Quest,… Read more
Behind the glossy veneer of this update lies the same classic but dated adventure. The Secret of Monkey Island is one of the undisputed classics of the adventure gaming genre. It holds fond memories f… Read more
Secret of Monkey Island has to be the pinnacle of adventure games during the Golden Era of video games. As games built on the Scumm Engine this probably what fueled the critical success of the LucasAr… Read more
There should be no point in writing this review because You should have already played this game If you haven't, there's absolutely no talking to you But I'll go on with it anyway so in that unusual c… Read more
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