Unlike classic point-and-click adventure games who had completely mouse-driven interfaces, such as the previous Monkey Island titles, the game is controlled entirely with the keyboard or alternatively with a joystick.A feature of the game are action-lines.Escape from Monkey Island is an adventure game that consists of dialogue with characters and solving puzzles.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 first game in the series to use 3D graphics and the second game to use the GrimE engine.It is the fourth game in the Monkey Island series, and the sequel to the 1997 videogame The Curse of Monkey Island.Features the voice of James Earl Jones.Almost 2.4 gigabytes! Simply the biggest and best entertainment CD product ever produced! show less Instead, descriptions of the dialogue choices were given, providing some mystery to what Tex would say.Īccess Software's Under A Killing Moon features:Four CDs of unparalleled graphics and sound.Full freedom of movement, explore where, when and what you want!Be part of an exciting comedy thriller!Top-notch Hollywood talent.Extensive built-in hints.An interface that makes interaction intuitive and simple.Full fidelity 16 bit 22Khz sound.Starring Brian Keith, Margot Kidder, and Russell Means. It was also the first Tex Murphy game to stray from the traditional adventure game dialogue format of providing options that showed exactly what the player's character would say. The virtual world allows full freedom of movement, and as such allows the player to look for clues in every nook and cranny. The player controls the protagonist Tex from a first-person perspective. Under a Killing Moon dramatically shifted the gameplay of its predecessors in the series by fully utilizing interactive 3D environments. This thrilling and hilarious adventure is unlike anything you've seen before.The graphics quality, the fascinating, believable characters, and complete freedom of movement will make you feel like you've actually walked through the screen and become the main character in a rich, intriguing mystery movie. New jokes! New puns! New insults! And more monkeys than the three previous Monkey games combined! show lessĮnter the virtual world of Under A Killing Moon, where it is December 2042, and you, as Tex Murphy, must stop the forces of evil before they destroy mankind and rob you of your next unemployment check.Hundreds of puzzles to challenge both novice and veteran pirates. Dozens of lusciously rendered backgrounds!.An original, cinematic story full of drama, sociopathic parrots, and a villain with a sinister agenda!.The game is controlled entirely with the keyboard or alternatively with a joystick. Excerpted from "The Memoirs of Guybrush Threepwood: The Monkey Island Years"įourth in the legendary Monkey Island series of graphic adventures!Įscape from Monkey Island is an adventure game that consists of dialogue with characters and solving puzzles. Time for the biggest battle of my swashbuckling life. suddenly, the hairy finger of a familiar monkey tapped me on the shoulder. If I'd never picked up a sword, the grog-swilling pirates of the Tri-Island Area might be unthreatened by the forces of gentrification and demonic heckfire. If only I'd chosen a different path, LeChuck might still be dead and the Ultimate Insult might have remained a mystery. I'd ignored recent events that should have been warning shots across the bow of my soul, from my wife's brush with death to the anti-pirate ramblings of an Australian gazillionaire. Spitting the sand of Monkey Island from my mouth, I wondered if the life of a mighty pirate was all it was cracked up to be.
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