The Gaming News Thread

[frogbeastegg]

!!!!!

Lucasarts is re-releasing the original Secrets of Monkey Island with improved graphics, interface, and voice acting. As if that weren't awesome enough, they are also making 5 new mini-Monkey Island games called Tales of Monkey Island.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009...sland-returns/

That's the second best Monkey Island news I've ever heard!

Monkey 1-3 are some of my favourite games ever Monkey 4 shall not be mentioned lest it destroy my fragile mental illusion that the game didn't exist and was really nothing more than a bad dream.

Remake! Looks great - Guybrush's voice actor is back, the graphics are exactly how I'd imagine a higer res version of the original graphics. I am so buying this on day 1.

New ones ... er, um. Yeah. That's some downright ugly character design in that trailer; the existing designs had so much more charm. I hate that new Guybrush; he looks like Rincewind from the Discworld point and clicks. It wasn't funny either.

Look behind you! A three-headed monkey!


The final bit of the announcement needs to be here:

These efforts are just the start of LucasArts’ new mission to revitalize its deep portfolio of beloved gaming franchises. In addition to these new Monkey Island projects, LucasArts recently revealed that the classic adventure game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (originally released in 1992) is included as an unlockable bonus in the Wii™ version of Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings, set to be released on June 9. Additional announcements are forthcoming.

More! I want Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max, The Dig, Monkey Island 2, Indy, and Full Throttle to get the same treatment as Monkey 1, now, in fact yesterday if not sooner.