This game is one of the best games that Lucas Arts ever made.

User Rating: 9.6 | Grim Fandango PC
By RedneckGamer87 | Review Date:
Gameplay: Grim Fandango is based upon Mexican folklore, set in the land of the dead. You play Manny Calavera, an employee of the Department of Death and travel agent to newly dead souls who are just setting out on the dangerous four-year journey to the ninth underworld. This is pretty much a little crime game. This game makes use of allusions to classic films such as 'Casablanca', and 'Glengarry Glen Ross', the parodying is tasteful and creates more atmosphere than slaphappy humor. However, comic relief is not led astray. Manny's sidekick Glottis, an oversized monster, tags along on most of Manny's trip giving you just the right amount of relief to the tension surrounding the array of mysterious puzzles. In this game Lucus arts, successfully integrates each puzzle and clue into its storyline. There was not once that I looked up from the game thinking how a certain piece related to the big picture. The controls are a little diffrent in this game. It uses a keyboard-driven interface instead of the traditional point-and-click.

Graphics: The graphics are in 3-D which many games where not at the time. I have to say they are abolutly amazing, even today the graphics stilll like colorful and very detailed. It really gives you that cinematic feel which was amazing at that time and still amazes me today.

Sound(s): The audio in Grim Fandango really immerses you into believing the game. The voice acting gives an accurate account to what you would imagine each character sounds like, fresh with quality accents. Also ther a big variety of selections of music in the soundtrack, ranging from classical Mexican music to contemporary jazz. The entire soundtrack really sets the mood of each scene, and it serves as a link from the gamer to the unimaginable world of the Land of the Dead. Value: I found the replay value very good. Even though I knew what to do after replaying it later in my life then from my childhood. I have never gotten bord of the amazing story. You can replay this game over and over again and not get tired of the story.

I give this game 9 out of 10.

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