Tales of Monkey Island
The legendary series returns from Davy Jones' locker and onto your screen with lush 3D environments, rip-roaring humour, and Guybrush Threepwood himself!
Tales of Monkey Island is an adventure developed by Telltale Games, released 7 July 2009 on PlayStation 3, Wii, iOS and Mac. The main story takes about 13.4 hrs to finish.
What Tales of Monkey Island is
Tales of Monkey Island is an adventure game developed by Telltale Games and released in 2009. It was published by LucasArts. It is available on PlayStation 3, Wii, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
While explosively stripping the evil pirate LeChuck of his demonic mojo, Guybrush Threepwood inadvertently infects the entire Caribbean with the arch-fiend's expelled voodoo, which threatens to transform buccaneers into unruly pirate monsters. Pursued by a notorious cut-throat pirate hunter and a creepy French physician who believes that Guybrush's eerily-infected hand holds the secret of eternal life, Threepwood sails the seven seas in search of La Esponja Grande, a legendary sea sponge with unparalleled voodoo exfoliating abilities. But little does Guybrush know, his quest is part of a larger, more sinister plot, and good and evil are not always as they seem… Who can Guybrush trust? Where…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Tales of Monkey Island holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 89 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 13.4 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 20 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.0 GHz + (3 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent rec.), 512MB (1GB rec.) of RAM and 64MB DirectX 8.1-compliant video card (128MB rec.). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Tales of Monkey Island launched on 7 July 2009, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, Trine Enchanted Edition, Wii Sports Resort and Trine. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, Trine Enchanted Edition, Wii Sports Resort, Trine.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Tales of Monkey Island yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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