Featuring musical styles such as Latin American folk, jazz, swing and big band, the soundtrack was also totally remastered for its re-release. Mix that with Peter McConnell’s iconic soundtrack, and you have a wonderfully unique world that Manny and his friends inhabit.
The graphics look absolutely stunning, even in the original 1998 release, and while the remastered version definitely improved them, the simplistic design of the character models and pre-rendered backgrounds make Grim Fandango an absolute looker, even today. Grim Fandango’s strengths lie in pretty much every area of the game. This sounds awful, and tank controls definitely are, but the absence of combat really makes tank controls an ideal choice for a controller based adventure game. Instead, the game would be played either entirely with the keyboard or a controller (a point and click mode would be added in the later remaster), utilising a ‘Resident Evil style’ tank control system. So Grim Fandango decided to get rid of pointing and clicking entirely. Sentient on the PlayStation was an early experiment in first person narrative adventure, and while it isn’t bad, it isn’t good either. Sierra was famous for the Gabriel Knight series, and while Gabriel Knight 3 was well received, it didn’t match the standard of the earlier 2D games. Many other companies struggled to take their narrative adventures and point and click games 3D, and by the late 90s there were some ropey games in the market. With more and more games being made with 3D polygons, LucasArts felt it had to move with the times. The latter was a critical success for LucasArts, so they had no qualms in naming Schafer as the sole writer and director of their latest adventure title, Grim Fandango.
GRIM FANDANGO REMASTERED PS3 FULL
Tim Schafer was a designer at LucasArts during the 90s, having worked on Monkey Island 1 & 2, Day of the Tentacle and his first solo project, Full Throttle. So in 1997, LucasArts released their final 2D adventure game, The Curse of Monkey Island. Speaking from experience, 3D graphics felt so very ahead of their time in the 90s, while 2D graphics felt incredibly outdated, no matter how good or impressive they looked.
This took a little shine off the point and click genre, as no longer did deep storylines require you to take on dream logic puzzles, talk to every NPC in the world or click on every pixel to see if it did anything. It felt like the future, and this use of 3D graphics, sound and video allowed developers to produce games with deeper narrative elements. The PlayStation, Saturn and Nintendo 64 all pushed the boat out in terms of 3D polygonal graphics, and the Saturn and PlayStation excelled in CD quality sound and cutscenes. There was a huge jump in graphical fidelity and design with 1993’s Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max Hit the Road, and the genre was then pushed further forward in 1995, with The Dig and Full Throttle both debuting.īut there was a problem, and that problem was from another dimension: the “third dimension”. They kicked off the decade with Loom, The Secret of Monkey Island, Monkey Island II and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. LucasArts adventure games of the 90s really came on leaps and bounds. In the early part of the 90s, games such as Star Trek: Judgement Rites, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers and Beneath a Steel Sky were popular and well made adventure games, but when it came down to fun, humour and cartoon lunacy, LucasArts were king. Other than that, strong narratives could be rarely found in platformers, or even a first person shooter.īut it was the point and click genre that really delivered on plot. RPGs of the time could deliver on the story front, but were all too often fantasy driven adventures. Back when the genre rose to prominence, there were precious few genres that offered comprehensive storytelling. There are 72 games on this list, excluding one repeat.The 1990s were the golden age of point and click narrative adventures, and it’s easy to see why the genre has remained in the imagination of gamers all these years later.
GRIM FANDANGO REMASTERED PS3 PLUS
This is a list of games which have been available monthly to PlayStation Plus members in the PAL region during 2016, covering Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, Africa and Oceania.
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