Grim Fandango is an adventure game, released in 1998 by LucasArts. Grim Fandango has a Stylized art style and uses a Gamepad, Keyboard control scheme. Adventure Gamers have published a review of Grim Fandango and rate it as Excellent, meanwhile the community rating for Grim Fandango is Excellent. Grim Fandango returns after 15 years with a fresh set of hi-res textures and a live orchestral soundtrack. The Gist - 4 Remakes Worth Your Time in 2015 Whether or not you’re usually inclined to.
Death: It Comes To Us All. Try As You might, there's no wriggling out of it. Sure, you can pound the streets in your jogging bottoms; you can subsist on a diet of Yakult. Bran Flakes and organic celery; you can visit every homeopathic, aromatherapeutic. acupuncture-tastic two-bit charlatan in town; but you're still going to croak it some day. Whatever starry-eyed worldly ambitions you might be nurturing, your ultimate destiny is to lie underground in an overpriced wooden casket, your eye sockets filled to the brim with squirming maggots, their little wormy gobs crammed to bursting point as they gorge nonchalantly on your putrefied flesh.
The reason for all this grim chit-chat? Why. it's Grim Fandango from LucasArts, m'lud. It's their latest entry in a long line of distinguished graphic adventures which have included such classics as 5am And Max, Day Of The Tentacle, and their recent dick-buster The Curse Of Monkey Island. The brainchild of Full Throttle creator Tim Schafer. Grim Fandango looks set to be somewhat darker than previous happy-go-lucky adventures. Which isn't to say it's a frown-a-minute exercise in morbid contemplation; it's all a bit quirkier than that. Think of the tone that runs through Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas and you're bang on track.
You take command of Manny Calavera. travel agent for the recently deceased. Manny's job is to take people from the Land of the Living to the Land of the Dead, via a four-year package holiday through the shadowy underworld. As the game begins, Manny finds himself falling victim to a convoluted embezzlement plot which prevents him from getting hold of the correct corpses. In desperation, he steals a living human, jeopardising not only his career but also the fate of his own soul.
Inspired by classic '50s film noir and ancient Mexican mythology, and spanning a four-year time scale, Grim Fandango certainly sounds like it could be the deepest LucasArts game yet. It's certainly the most visually ambitious, being their first graphic adventure to use 3D characters and locations.
DescriptionGrim Fandango is an adventure game, in which the player controls Manuel 'Manny' Calavera (calavera being Spanish for 'skull') as he follows Mercedes 'Meche' Colomar in the Underworld. The game uses the GrimE engine, pre-rendering static backgrounds from 3D models, while the main objects and characters are animated in 3D. Additionally, cutscenes in the game have also been pre-rendered in 3D. The player controls Manny's movements and actions with a keyboard, a joystick, or a gamepad. The remastered edition allows control via a mouse as well. Manny must collect objects that can be used with either other collectible objects, parts of the scenery, or with other people in the Land of the Dead in order to solve puzzles and progress in the game. The game lacks any type of HUD. Unlike the earlier 2D LucasArts games, the player is informed of objects or persons of interest not by text floating on the screen when the player passes a cursor over them, but instead by the fact that Manny will turn his head towards that object or person as he walks by. The player reviews the inventory of items that Manny has collected by watching him pull each item in and out of his coat jacket. Manny can engage in dialogue with other characters through conversation trees to gain hints of what needs to be done to solve the puzzles or to progress the plot. As in most LucasArts adventure games, the player can never die or otherwise get into a no-win situation (that prevents completion of the game).
The game is divided into four acts, each taking place on November 2 in four consecutive years. Manuel 'Manny' Calavera is a travel agent at the Department of Death in the city of El Marrow, forced into his job to work off a debt 'to the powers that be'. Manny is frustrated with being assigned clients that must take the four-year journey and is threatened to be fired by his boss, Don Copal, if he does not come up with better clients. Manny steals a client, Mercedes 'Meche' Colomar, from his co-worker Domino Hurley. The Department computers assign Meche to the four-year journey even though Manny believes she should have a guaranteed spot on the 'Number Nine' luxury express train due to her pureness of heart in her life. After setting Meche on her way, Manny investigates further and finds that Domino and Don have been rigging the system to deny many clients Double N tickets, hoarding them for the boss of the criminal underworld, Hector LeMans. LeMans then sells the tickets at an exorbitant price to those that can afford it. Manny recognizes that he cannot stop Hector at present and instead, with the help of his driver and speed demon Glottis, he tries to find Meche on her journey in the nearby Petrified Forest. During the trip, Manny encounters Salvador 'Sal' Limones, the leader of the small underground organization the Lost Souls Alliance (LSA), who is aware of Hector's plans and recruits Manny to help. Manny arrives at the small port city of Rubacava and finds that he has beaten Meche there, and waits for her to arrive.
A year passes, and the city of Rubacava has grown. Manny now runs his own nightclub off a converted automat near the edge of the Forest. Manny learns from Olivia Ofrenda, the owner of the beatnik Blue Casket nightclub, that Don has been 'sprouted' for letting the scandal be known and that Meche was recently seen with Domino leaving the port.
Manny gives chase and a year later tracks them to a coral mining plant on the Edge of the World. Domino has been holding Meche there as a trap to lure Manny. All of Domino's clients who had their tickets stolen are also being held there and used as slave labor, both to make a profit with the coral mining and as a way to keep Hector's scandal quiet. Domino tries to convince Manny to take over his position in the plant seeing as he has no alternative and can spend the rest of eternity with Meche but he refuses. After rescuing Meche, Manny defeats Domino by causing him to fall into a rock crusher. Manny, along with Meche, Glottis and all the souls being held at the plant then escape from the Edge of the World.The three travel for another year until they reach the terminus for the Number Nine train before the Ninth Underworld. Unfortunately, the Gate Keeper to the Ninth Underworld won't let the souls progress without their tickets, mistakenly believing they have sold them, and it's further revealed that a wicked soul that has either not paid off their debt or tried to cheat the Gate Keeper with a fake or real Double N Ticket to gain entrance to the Ninth Underworld will cause the express train to transform into the hell train (which sends all souls onboard to hell). Meanwhile, Glottis has fallen deathly ill. Manny learns from demons stationed at the terminus that the only way to revive Glottis is to travel at high speeds to restore Glottis' purpose for being summoned. Manny and the others devise a makeshift fuel source to create a 'rocket' train cart, quickly taking Manny and Meche back to Rubacava and saving Glottis' life. The three return to El Marrow, now found to be fully in Hector's control and renamed as Nuevo Marrow. Manny regroups with Sal and his expanded LSA and with the help of Olivia, who volunteered to join the gang earlier in Rubacava, and is able to learn about Hector's current activities. Further investigation reveals that Hector not only has been hoarding the Number Nine tickets, but has created counterfeit versions that he has sold to others. Manny tries to confront Hector but is lured into another trap by Olivia, who has also captured Sal, and is taken to Hector's greenhouse to be sprouted. Manny is able to defeat Hector after Sal sacrifices himself to prevent Olivia from interfering. Manny and Meche are able to find the real Double N tickets, including the one that Meche should have received. Manny makes sure the rest of the tickets are given to their rightful owners; in turn, he is granted his own for his good deeds. Together, Manny and Meche board the Number Nine for their happy journey to the Ninth Underworld while Glottis who can't join them waves tearfully goodbye.
CPU: Intel Pentium 133 MHz
RAM: 32 MB
Hard disk: 1.2 GB
Video card: PCI or AGP graphics card 2 MB of VRAM DirectX 6 compatible