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Some General Information

Well, what do you know? Money Island 5 -- Tales of Monkey Island -- is ready for episodic releases, starting July 7th. It is developed by our good friends at Telltale Games. Some tidbits:

  • Dave Grossman, co-writer and co-designer of the two first games, is heading the production. EMI lead, Mike Stemmle, is a writer. In addition, many ex-LECers are on board.
  • Michael Land is back for the music, as is Dominic Armato as the voice of Guybrush.
  • While Ron Gilbert isn't directly involved with the development, he sat in on a few days of brainstorming during the beginning of the design process.
  • Will be released for PC and WiiWare.
  • There will be five episodes, which can be pre-ordered for $34 from the official site.
  • First island visited is Flotsam Island.
  • Each episode will have different head writers -- all reporting to Grossman -- with Stemmle helming the first episode, Launch of the Screaming Narwhal.
  • Each episode will include roughly 1,600 lines of dialogue.

The Plot

Set a few years after the end of Escape from Monkey Island, Tales of Monkey Island opens with Guybrush once again trying to save Elaine from the clutches of LeChuck. While trying to banish the undead pirate, Guybrush accidentally transforms LeChuck into a human form, and has some of his evil transferred into his hand. And there starts the adventure.

Episodes

  1. Launch of the Screaming Narwhal (July 7th, 2009)
  2. The Siege of Spinner Cay
  3. Lair of the Leviathan
  4. The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood
  5. Rise of the Pirate God

Trailer

Videos

Screenshots

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Concept Art

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Miscellaneous Memorabilia

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Wallpapers

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Trivia and In-Jokes

  • Wedding ring: Elaine is using her's -- which transformed her into a gold statue in the third game -- as an earring. (Credit: ATMachine)
  • A character in the game will be called Marquis de Singe (who can be seen on the left button), a pun on Marquis de Sade. In addition singe is French for monkey. (Credit: ATMachine. Who else?)

Islands

  • Flotsam Island

Documents

PC Requirements

  • Operating system: Windows XP / Vista
  • Processor: 2.0 GHz + (3 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent rec.)
  • Memory: 512MB (1GB rec.) Sound: DirectX 8.1 sound device
  • Video: 64MB DirectX 8.1-compliant video card (128MB rec.)
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c or better