MI2: Special Edition announced!

March 11th, 2010 by Dalixam | 6 comments

It’s official! LucasArts has announced Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge: Special Edition to be released this summer for the PC, Xbox Live,  PlayStation Network, iPhone, and iPod Touch. In addition, the SE of MI will be hitting the PlayStation Network as well. ETA on that is a few weeks.

Back to the juicy news about the MI2: SE; Like its predecessor it will feature improved graphics, remastered music, the ability to switch between the original game and the updated version, voices in the updated version AND the original one. Yes, you read right. LucasArts has listened to the fans and allowed us to play the original game with voices. Another thing proving that they listen to us: Guybrush had a haircut! More good news is that the original cast will return to do the voices.

Another improvement is that they’ll allow us to directly control Guybrush if we want. I’m not sure what this means, using the keyboard perhaps. but I don’t see how that is better than just clicking on the screen for him to move. Maybe it will be easier to use for those playing on an Xbox or PlayStation. The interactive hint system has been expanded and can be used to highlight important objects in the environment, but who uses a hint system anyway?

Other juicy new features include an in-game audio commentary from the game’s creators so players can listen in on the developers’ thoughts and memories regarding the game and an in-game art viewer that will display original and new concept art used during the making of the game.

See the official site and the press release.
Now we just need to wait for Telltale to announce the second season of Tales to coincide with the release of the MI2:SE :)
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6 Responses to “MI2: Special Edition announced!”

  1. Hande says:

    This is great and it actually might be worth playing the game through with the original graphics and voice over. Might give it a bit of Simon the Sorcerer 2 feeling. :)

    What’s this about a shave? Guybrush seems to have his shaggy beard at least on the LucasArts page.

    • Dalixam says:

      You’re right. I swear it wasn’t there before. They must have added it and changed the screenshots! Yes, that’s it. Either way. I’m happy :)

      That reminds me, I sill need to finish Simon 2. I got stuck on the boat, but haven’t played it in over 6 months I think. Need to finish that :)

      • Hande says:

        finish, verb, means “to complete something”

        Finnish, noun or adjective, denotes a person who is from Finland (like me).

        This has been an announcement from your resident language and spelling nazi. :D

  2. Luis says:

    NOW! THATS GOOD NEWS!!!!! YEAH BABY YEAH! (I just shed a tear….)

  3. Flex says:

    I hope they keep both dificultys as well as the copy protection system…

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