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What a disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 25
Date: November 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have played the other MI games and they were great fun. Why did they decide to remove the ability to use the mouse???? The graphics were better in the past versions. This was a waste of money, since it's almost impossible to play.

Boring and gross

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: March 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Playing this game closely on the heels of the outstanding Curse of Monkey Island (MI 3) emphasizes the inferiority of Escape from Monkey Island (MI 4). The Monkey Island franchise needed 3D like Guybrush Threepwood needs another hole in his head. As such, the 3D implementation has ruined an otherwise adequate game. In addition, even though the puzzles in MI 4 are just as oddball as those in MI 3, the "grossness" level has been turned way up. It's as if the target audience is 13-year-old boys and to heck with the rest of the gamers out there.

In a nutshell, if you haven't yet played MI 3, get it and play it now. Don't let MI 4 discourage you from seeing the true gems in this franchise. If you have already played MI 3, stay away from MI 4. Otherwise, you will be sorely disappointed.

A disappointing effort from Lucas Arts

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: May 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Being an avid adventure gamer for many years, I couldn't wait to grab a copy of the 4th instalment of the the famed Monkey Isand series, Escape from Monkey Island. Rest assured, I was the first one in line to buy Lucas Arts' new masterpiece, and seemingly the first to be truly dissapointed. Yes, I noticed the nifty 3D graphics, and wow those endless puns were mighty humorous...but what happened to the logical puzzles? The fun story? What happened to playing a game without a bug or glitch every other second? These unanswered questions plagued me as I watched this lackluster game unfold. To be fair, the game was not HORRIBLE, just far infererior previous MIs, and semi-disgraceful to Lucas Arts, who has published many of my all time favorites (i.e. Day of the Tentacle, Curse of Monkey Island, and Grim Fandango). I fervently urge you to purchase one of the aformentioned games instead of this hastily thrown together mess. For the record, Escape from Monkey Island does NOT deserve 1 star: 2 or 3 would be more appropriate. However, this is my futile attempt to balance the scales and set some confused and askew "adventure gamers" straight. This game is for shame, Lucas Arts! Better luck (and effort) in the future.

How horrible!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: November 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have bought and played all the Monkey Island games before this, so I was excited to buy the newest fourth edition in the series. To my great disappointment though, they have changed too much. The graphics were great, but did they really need to make it in 3D format. Maybe I got a bugged disk but when I would use the pg Up buttom (or down) it wouldn't highlight the sentence I wanted to pick. Also, since you are not able to use a mouse, it takes him FOREVER to get anywhere. You need to walk in just the right space to get sentences to choose from...the list goes on and on. I am taking this back to the computer store tomorrow. Why couldn't they just make it mouse compatible. I would of really enjoyed the game!

Dont bother with this one

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: December 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

We spend 2 days trying to make this game run on our system. Now it will but its very slow and full of bugs. The fact the game comes with a troubleshooting guide that is about 100 pages long should all tell us something. At Lucasarts website there is already an update you have to download in order to make some of the parts of the game work ( they call it minor problems..LOL). The controls are sheer horrible and the 3D characters look and move terrible. I agree with many others that they have been rushing this one to get it out in time for christmas. All in all a huge dissapointment. After all I am a huge MI fan and my heart skipped a beat when I saw they were coming out with another one. But now I wished they had not. Really save your bucks on this one and lets hope Lucasarts learned something from this.

I loved every monkey island, except this one

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I loved to play monkey island 1 when i was 6 and 7, monkey island 2 was also great, and COMI was my favorite, the painted backgrounds were beautiful, the music was good enough to stand on its own, and the voice acting was superb. Not to mention how well the cartoony graphics style fit into the series. Then monkey island 4 came along and wrecked it all. the graphics were horrible, the 3d animation was terrible, and didn't fit the series at all. the new voice for elaine is SO OBNOXIOUS!... why couldn't they get the old voice from COMI back? The plot it stupid, and the interface is among the worse I have ever used. Every since sometime in the mid 1980's there was this great invention called the MOUSE! Having to use the keyboard all the time was so frustrating! The puzzles were obscure, and had nothing to do with the plot. I hope that if lucasarts makes an MI5, they'll go back to 2d graphics, and add mouse support!

ESCAPE from locks up, freezes, and crashes!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you or your kids want to play a fun computer game, DON'T buy this latest game from LucasArts because clearly it was rushed into production for the holiday buying season. The software is very, very buggy and prone to freezing and locking up your system. You'll spend many, many hours of your time in futile efforts to make the game work. And, believe me, those efforts will be futile. Shame on LucasArts for putting such a shoddy piece of programming out in the market place. Maybe that's why there is NO moneyback guarantee with the product.

Would be awful nice if I could play it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: August 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have been a fan of the Monkey Island series for the longest time, and I sincerely love all their games. But the latest is a big disappointment. B/c it requires a 3D card, I can't play it--it's awfully hard to install a 3D card on a laptop. I was really looking forward to playing the latest installment of Guybrush's adventures, and I'm crushed that I'm not able to. I fear that Lucasarts is going to alienate a large portion of their audience.

escape from monkey island

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: January 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Playing the Sims in German is better than playing this game. Talk about convaluted. Save your money on this one. Art work and graphics are it's only savers.

Nice game, but...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: September 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

A great game for beginners, still better than Curse of Monkey Island, for sure. Nice jokes, puzzles, cool animations... But it is definitely not the sequel we, old classic-adventurers, have been waiting for so many years. I got very disappointed when I first played CMI. After I finished the game I was like: "So what!" Perhaps I was expecting too much from it. It was a sequel for the best adventure games made ever: Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island II, made by Ron Gilbert, the magnificient. So it had to be perfect, but it was not. Many of the questions, which remain open after the mysterious end-scene of MI2, were still not answered. So I did not expect too much this time when I bought EMI. The story of the game tries to fill in the gaps of the previous games but is still weak. The interface is disastrous. The interfaces of the first two games have been cornerstones for most of the game-programmers; many nice games have been written thereafter imitating MI interfaces. But in EMI, for a reason that I did not understand, programmers felt that they are forced to or have to use new 3D accelerator's "advantages", which make the game nothing but one of the ordinary games of the last few years. The game brings nothing new for classic-adventure fans but if you are looking just for fun for a couple of hours, it may be a good one.?

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