As Elaine begins her campaign to recover her position, Guybrush hires navigator Ingacius Cheese in a game of insult arm-wrestling, meets again with two of his old 'friends', Carla and Otis, and heads out to Lucre Island to recover the Marley family heirlooms and obtain the legal documents to save her mansion. Charles presents himself as the lead candidate. The governorship is up for election, and suddenly a person known as Charles L. They find that Elaine has been declared officially dead, her position as governor has been revoked and her mansion is scheduled to be demolished. Guybrush Threepwood and Elaine Marley return to Mêlée Island from their honeymoon. Monkey Kombat is a sub-game akin to rock-paper-scissors, where the player needs to memorize lines of 'monkey insults and retorts' which consist of per-game randomized compositions of 'monkey words' like 'oop', 'chee', 'ack' and 'eek'. In the second part of the game, the insult games are replaced by 'Monkey Kombat', the name being a parody of Mortal Kombat with a symbol to match. One of the hallmark aspects of the Monkey Island games, the insult swordfighting - the sword duels which were won by knowing the appropriate insults and responses - is briefly touched upon in the game as 'insult armwrestling', and in an unwinnable insult duel against Ozzie Mandrill. The game is controlled entirely with the keyboard or alternatively with a joystick, making it the only non- point-and-click game in the Monkey Island series.Ī feature of the game are action-lines: Guybrush will glance at any items that can be interacted with the player can use 'Page Up' or 'Page Down' to select the item that he wants Guybrush to look at. A follow-up to Escape, entitled Tales of Monkey Island, was released by Telltale Games in 2009.Įscape from Monkey Island is an adventure game that consists of dialogue with characters and solving puzzles. It was ultimately the last LucasArts adventure game to be released, as the company's later projects Full Throttle: Hell on Wheels and Sam & Max: Freelance Police were canceled in 20, respectively. Escape from Monkey Island was the second game to use the GrimE engine, which was upgraded from its first use in Grim Fandango.Įscape from Monkey Island won positive reviews and was a moderate commercial success. Guybrush must find a way to restore Elaine to office, while uncovering a plot to turn the Caribbean into a tourist trap, headed by his nemesis LeChuck and an Australian conspirator Ozzie Mandrill. The game centers on the pirate Guybrush Threepwood, who returns home with his wife Elaine Marley after their honeymoon, to find her erroneously declared dead, and her office of governor up for election. It is the fourth game in the Monkey Island series and the first to use 3D graphics. Escape from Monkey Island is an adventure game developed and released by LucasArts in 2000.

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