New Monkey Island games confirmed
Guybrush Threepwood and Co. will be reappearing in a series of new Monkey Island games.
In other news, Joe just died of happiness.
According to the announcement, Lucasarts will be internally developing a The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition for the Xbox 360 and the game will include totally new graphics, a newly remastered musical score and full voiceovers.
That's not all for Monkey Island either, as Lucasarts has confirmed it has teamed up with Telltale Games to produce a new series of episodic Monkey Island games too. It's a move laced with irony too as Telltale was originally formed by designers who left Lucasarts to make games based on Sam and Max after Lucas had seemed to abandon the genre.
The series, which is titled Tales of Monkey Island will be fully 3D and is scheduled to run for five episodes at least. It'll have Guybrush running all over the place as usual, this time trying to contain a voodoo pox that's turning everyone into zombie pirates. LeChuck is also confirmed to play a role, obviously.
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is for Xbox 360 and PC, while Tales of Monkey Island is confirmed for PC and WiiWare and set to debut on July 7th. Be warned though that the PC version of the Special Edition looks like it may be tied to Games for Windows Live.
Below there's a trailer for the new Tales of Monkey Island series, as well as a quick 'making of' for the special edition. Check them out and let us know what you think of them in the forums.
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Discuss in the forums Replywhat? get out.
no, really. get out.
leave your geek badge at the door.
Oh wait - do you even own a 360, Joe? :P
Ban him? Surely a challenge to an Insult Swordfight would more appropriate?
-monkey
Perfect, such fond memories. Was a little gutted at the time when my pc wouldn’t play Escape from Monkey Island though ha ha.
You mean Episode 4 right?
PC release too :p
My GF will be happy she can get it on wii though :)
you post like a dairy farmer.
"HOLY HELL!"
"I've had better?"
Seriously though... I can't wait.
I just hope we don't end up like Sam & Max, the original was fantastic but the recent episodes were average at best. Perhaps there is something to be said for leaving past good memories as just that.
Day.
Ever.
Surely the second best day ever?
I wasn't around when the first one was released or when you were born ;)
Guybrush is back?! AWESOME!!! I'm not sure about the 3D but other than that I just can't wait!