As a big fan of the lucas art's monkey island (esp 1&2 on commodore, with 7 floppies
) I was looking forward to part 5 of the series, 'Tales of Monkey Island - Launch of the Screaming Narwhal'!
The game is about to be released over the summer time in form of chapters, 5 in total to complete the game. Kinda gay system, thats because of the new developer: Telltale Games, producer of Sam&Max, a capter structure is usual for their games. =(
I don't know what I have to expect from the new MI, its completely designed in 3D but with very lousy character models. I'd prefer nice 2D landscapes, scanned paintings like in part 1&2, its an adventure after all.
The difficulty level had to be alleviated to make it playable for kiddies, thats the next point that makes me worry about the fun to play the new MI. Dialogues are more linear than in the predecessors.
The story begins like back in the old days ^^, governor Elaine gets kidnaped by the archenemy LeChuck. You, the wannabe-pirate Guybrush Threepwood gets cursed and happen to end up in a desert island.
Some pics, they don't really give the good ol' Monkey Island feeling =(