The two centuries old Monkey Island Hotel is picturesquely set on its own Private Island ... more
making it an unusual venue for all kinds of occasions Located in the middle of the Thames near the village of Bray on Thames Maidenhead the hotel is accessed o...
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Dating from 1840, this unique hotel rests on its own private island in the middle of the ... more
River Thames. Accessible only by footbridge or boat, Monkey Island Hotel is surrounded by beautiful gardens, where you can watch the play of river activity, from t...
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Advantages: Entertaining, crazy yet logical game, strong visual aesthetic Disadvantages: Still very dated
Having never played many of the "classics" of adventure gaming, I have none of the fond memories many relive while playing through their childhood favourites. I was concerned how well a game from the primitive times of 1990 would come across to me without nostalgia to mask its flaws. However, despite a pitiful colour range of 256 colours and small collection of MIDI tracks, the VGA version of Secret of MonkeyIsland still oozes charm from every blocky pore. Coming out several months after the original release, it drastically increased the game's colour palette selection from 16 to 256 colours, giving the game a much smoother, textured appearance. While a pithy comment about how it puts today's exquisitely detailed, but tragically dreary video game environments to shame would be an exaggeration; nevertheless, the strong, vibrant visual ...
Advantages: Voice-acting, stays loyal to previous games, music Disadvantages: Undeveloped supporting characters, new interface, easy puzzles, episodic
With the first game, Secret of MonkeyIsland, having been recently re-vamped and re-released for the PC, wii and iPhone, now is as good a time as any to discover - or re-live - the MonkeyIsland saga, with this brand new release from Telltale Games.
Nine long years ago, LucasArts - the adventure game giants behind Sam 'n' Max, Grim Fandango, and MonkeyIslands 1 through 4 - sounded their own death knell within the realm of point-and-clicks and announced that Escape from MonkeyIsland was to be their last release. This came despite main character Guybrush's joke in 'Escape' that he had an 'unbreakable 5-game contract', and was perhaps part the cause and part the result of a trend for declining interest in adventure games in favour of graphically-intense, fast-paced action simulations. That 'Escape' was not universally praised by ...
Advantages: Classic mode, new graphics, great voice-acting, good storyline Disadvantages: Controls take some adjusting to
Although point-and-click adventure games dominated the software market a couple of decades ago, their popularity has rapidly dwindled with the demand for graphically-stunning shoot-'em-ups and simulation games. LucasArts, the mastermind behind legendary adventure games such as the MonkeyIsland canon, Grim Fandango and Sam 'n' Max Hit The Road, bid adieu to a long tradition of point-and-clicks with their final release, Escape From MonkeyIsland (4th in the series) in 2000. They assured disappointed fans there would be no future MonkeyIsland installments and they've held true to their word - sort of.
Enter the advent of iPhone app popularity and a growing demand for mobile games that arguably prompted the team's dedicated project of revival, culminating in the revamp of the first ever 1990 installment, The Secret of MonkeyIsland ...
