Wednesday 23 September 2009

Monkey Island 2 on the CryEngine?

I remember reading years ago that first-person shooters and 3D killed off the traditional point-and-click adventure games. That may well be true but I've just come across an amazing effort of recreating a number of well-remembered environments from LucasArts' 1991 iconic Monkey Island 2 title (one of the best adventure games ever IMO) using the CryTek's CryEngine in 3D.

While I usually (and I suspect most people too) find efforts of turning classic 2D game environments in 3D incredibly twee, this one is surprisingly good, to the extent of utilizing the artistic strengths of the original environments but in a modern, state-of-the-art real-time graphics setting. Check it out in the video above. Before you get too excited however this is not the beginning of a remake of MI2 with the CryEngine, just a showcase of the latter's potential combined with the great art ideas of the LucasArts game...

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