- Publisher: LucasArts
- Release Date: Nov 8, 2000
- Also On: PlayStation 2
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Hilarious, perfectly paced, and just the right amount of difficulty. Very few puzzles are total stumpers.
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Daily RadarIn short, Monkey Island has amazing production value, great graphics, good comedy, and a compelling story.
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CNET GamecenterThe best adventure game we've played in recent years, and an instant classic.
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This comic farce will leave you rolling on the floor with laughter and provide hours of enjoyment, a healthy dose of good-natured, unadulterated fun, and more monkeys than every other game combined.
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This is what an adventure game should be: easy to look at, great puzzles and sound, simple interaction, humour, solid writing and the power to transport the player somewhere else for some fun.
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Monkey Island is still the best place to play.
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I haven’t laughed so much, nor have I had so much fun playing a game in ages.
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Despite the sometimes-baffling challenges (which, in all honesty, are pretty typical to the genre), EMI delivers exactly what the Monkey Island name promises-a lighthearted, entertaining, and well-written swashbuckling adventure game.
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Some ill-chosen puzzles, a fatigued conclusion -- no matter, really. You'll be smiling too much to give it much notice. This is nothing less than perfectly perfected perfection. If you like monkeys, anyway.
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Total Video GamesSimply the greatest point-and-click adventure game to date, whilst it may seam a little strange at time hang on there you will be rewarded in the end.
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As with most adventure games, it's startlingly linear, but don't you dare let that rob you of the experience; this is a game that should be bought, played and cherished.
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EMI's combination of great graphics, hilarious story and solid gameplay is a tough one to beat. If you like adventure games this one's a no-brainer.
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An incredibly amusing experience from start to finish, die-hard fans of Monkey Island shouldn't let the game's new look scare them away; when it comes to heart, this is the same old Guybrush.
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The colors are much lighter and cheerful than in "Grim Fandango."
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AntagonistGet past the dead genre and you'll laugh until your brain bleeds.
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It is the best adventure game for years, it has a sly, well-plotted purpose and it points the way to the 3D adventures of the future. Don't fear the monkeys: embrace them.
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While the glitches are definitely frustrating, and the polish is lacking at times, overall this is a welcome return to the eeps and oops of your childhood.
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The humor is droll but affecting, and the game play so well laid out that this program has to be considered a worthy sequel to its predecessor.
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PC GamerDefinitely not the best of the bunch, but still a welcome return to a classic series. [Feb 2001, p.85]
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The gameplay is fun but can get a little tough and/or complex in certain places but hey, that's what the Internet and walkthroughs are for.
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The biggest change Escape from Monkey Island has undergone is its change to 3D. Far from ruining the game, as many fans feared, this makes EMI the best-looking Monkey Island title yet.
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A terrifically funny, beautiful and great sounding game. A few bugs may mar the experience at points, but they don't hamper the fun.
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Players who're new to the Monkey Island series may get the sense while playing the game that they're watching a bunch of old friends regale each other with old in-jokes; it's easy to feel as if you're being left out of the fun if you don't catch the references.
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A quality adventure game even though the restyling of the old locations on Mêlée Island and Monkey Island is a bit of a mixed bag. The ending is long, satisfying and almost as disturbingly weird.
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The lack of mouse support is both shocking and somewhat unforgivable... (yet) EMI will provide hours of intelligent and silly gameplay.
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The voice acting in this game is probably the most widely competent you'll ever come across in a recent computer game.
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Although not the high point of the Monkey Island series, EMI earns an overall score of 80 as a worthy addition to the adventure game genre.
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Some of the puzzles were just a little too peculiar and, if you even manage to figure them out, may leave you thinking “How was I supposed to figure THAT out?”
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Though many Monkey Island fans will disagree I found this to be the least humorous and immersive of the series and it falls short of the overall quality of "Grim Fandango."
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Spank!The real problem here is the shoulder-saggingly illogical puzzles. If you're a Monkey Island fan this is a bitter disappointment and if you're not you'll wonder what on earth all the fuss is about.
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EMI is not a bad game but it will never join its brethren in the panoply of gods of the genre. I for one would like to see LucasArts get out of the sequel to sequel to sequel business altogether and focus solely on new ideas.
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EFMI brings nothing new to the table. It will not attract a new generation of gamers and was made for the hardcore adventure gamer who enjoyed the previous episodes.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 80 out of 123
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Mixed: 30 out of 123
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Negative: 13 out of 123
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Dec 13, 2021This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.
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May 19, 2020One of the weaker entries in the series. It had it's charm and it's gags, but they didn't feel that fresh and the engine brought it down a notch
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Dec 8, 2018