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Finger FootballT | Home » » » Grim Fandango | | | | | | | Description: | | A four-year journey through over 100 exotic locales. An extraordinary experience within 3D Art Deco and Aztec-inspired environments. A web of intrigue 50 characters deep. A shocking portrait drawn wit 7,000 lines of revealing dialogue. hundreds of challenging puzzles for all adventures. a smooth, seamless interface puts you smack in Manny's world. A lush orginial score featuring Swing-era bebop and jazz. BONUS Full Version of Day of the Tentacle included! | | | Features: | |
• 3-D Adventure
| | | Product Details: | | | Package Length:
| 9.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.55 pounds | | Release Date:
| October 14, 1998 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 74 reviews |
| | | Game Information: | | | Platform:
| Windows 98 / Windows Me / Windows 95 | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
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Gaming perfectionSep 20, 2009
This is hands down, incontrovertibly the best game I have ever played, in any format. So good that I am tempted to keep my old, otherwise unused PC, or install Windows on my Mac (something I would never otherwise consider), simply so that I will be able to play this game again. Since my first playthrough over three years ago, I have been searching for ANY game I might love as much as I love this one, and nothing has come close. I dream of the day LucasArts realizes what a gem it has here had reworks the game for other formats -- it would make a dream of a Wii game -- and/or produces a sequel or spinoff. Rich storyline, lush graphics, delightful characters, an unusual theme, and innovative gameplay make this game a classic that should find new audiences over and over again.
One small caveat: the game wasn't subjected to as much quality control as it should have been (something LucasArts sadly makes a habit of), and it can be glitchy, with the game freezing up occasionally. This is of course frustrating and annoying, and in any other game I would not have bothered to finish because of it. This one, however, is SO good that it is well worth playing anyway. Even with all the glitches I give it five stars because, without them, and Amazon allowing, it would deserve at least seven.
 An excellent game, if sometimes arbitrary and frustrating.Apr 24, 2009
I played Grim Fandango in the winter of 2009, a decade after the game was released. The years showed a bit when I played it -- just getting it to run on my super-ultra-powerful Windows XP Home Edition machine (itself 6 years old) was a bit of an ordeal. The controls at times were clunky and unresponsive, and I would often find myself piloting Manny into a wall. The gameplay was rigidly linear, often arbitrarily so, and I was much more dependent on a walkthrough while playing the game than I normally am.
So, as part of the video game medium, I can't give Grim Fandango a perfect rating because it was so frustrating at times. Otherwise, though, everything else about the game was absolutely excellent. The story, the graphics, the music, the characters, the dialogue, the voice acting -- everything about the game that was cinematic or literary was better than nearly every other game I've ever played.
So, as a game, it was good but not fantastic; as an interactive movie, it was incredible. I recommend Grim Fandango to anyone with a bit of technological prowess (it's hard to get running on a machine newer than Windows 98) and a whole lot of patience.
Problems with Vista/XP, but still a blast!Dec 06, 2008
Don't get me wrong, this game is great - brought me right back to obsessively playing the Gabriel Knight games, the Neverhood, and the Dig (also by LucasArts and amazing). It's great to look at, fun to play, and has one of the better story lines of any game I've ever played.
Now, for the unfortunate downside: there is a lot of stuff you have to do to run this with Vista or XP (or if your computer runs faster than they did back in 95/98. There are two patches you have to download (pretty quick and easy to find) BEFORE you attempt to install the game - in fact, one of the patches is a replacement installer. The game WILL NOT WORK AT ALL without the two patches. Once this is going, you have to run the game from the GRIM menu in the LucasArts folder in Windows 95/98 compatibility mode and run it as administrator.
With everything in its place, the game works perfectly until the chapter called Year 3, in which it repeatedly locks up. This can be fixed by switching discs and playing through for a while (although you lose the characters' ability to talk and get "closed captioning" for a bit) - then save the game, swap discs again, and you're back to where you need to be.
It's a bit of a hassle figuring all this out as you go (had to uninstall and reinstall about 90 times and then figure out the disc swapping by trial and error). I heard in my net searches on the problems that LucasArts is planning on re-issuing its classic adventures (this one included) in Vista format - if I knew this to be an absolute fact, I would advise waiting on this to happen.
However, the game is still enjoyable and is definitely one of the best and most original ideas out there. Hopefully, this review keeps you from pulling out the amount of hair I went through - it is well worth the extra trouble beforehand to play this game!
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After 10 years, still ranks as my favorite.Nov 20, 2008
I still remember the first time I played Grim Fandango. I was 17 years old at the time (was 16 when I played the Demo). What I remember more however is when I ended the game. I remember the strangest feeling I ever had upon ending a game... actual sadness. It might sound pathetic, but this is something that most of those who played Grim Fandango felt as well (if you don't believe me check the Gamespot hall of fame entry on Grim Fandango). This is a beautiful game really. The only beautiful game I have ever played. Every aspect of it shines with wit. From the art deco graphics to the Aztec inspired bebop sound track to the amazingly written script, this game stands unique and in a class of its own. The fact that it is still selling here after 10 years at almost double the price at which I bought it in 1998 is a testament to how adored it is by gamers everywhere. This is the climax of the Lucasarts school of adventure gaming and unfortunately, the last statement of a genre that is dearly missed. I recommend playing this game very highly. I almost envy you if you have never played it. There is nothing really quite like playing it for the first time around. Enjoy!
Another Nostalgic 90's Game Greatly Remembered And LovedNov 02, 2008
I still remember when I first bought this game in the 90's and I still play
the game from time to time for both entertainment and nostalgia. As with most of the pc games in the 90's there was no type commands but just the point and click with the mouse usually but still the humor and video cut scenes in the game were more than enough to keep you playing until the end. The short story-plot was your character was a civil servant for the spiritual plane where the recently departed had to stop before making their final passage to eternal rest. Your character for whatever reason had to work off a certain amount of time to clear his debt before going to the place of eternal rest as well. The job was you worked to see how well the person who just died was in life meaning the more compassionate, and humane they were in life the faster to paradise they would get to meaning the usual ways to get to paradise depending on the person was bus, boat, car, and if very high on the morality meter the number nine train which would only take nine minutes for the person to get to paradise. Of course there was more to the game and that is why it made it very entertaining to play. The video graphics are of the 90's era so again if your used to playing recent pc games you might feel the graphics are sub par but don't let that dissuade you from this game. The voice actors they got to do the characters were incredible both in their acting for their characters and their ability to bring the humor and excitement into the game itself. I know while some think this doesn't have the fighting or the action of recent pc games but I still feel that it's one of the few classics that many people will still find very enjoyable to play both for themselves and children without worrying about to much violence of the game.
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