I’ve just picked up on the fact that The Brainy Gamer blog is doing a gaming club (a-la ye old book clubs / reading circles) and the focus for the next session is Grim Fandango.

http://www.brainygamer.com/the_brainy_gamer/2008/07/vintage-game–1.html?cid=122321778#comment-122321778

If you have time to participate, I’d really recommend it.  Not because I have any idea how it’ll go (I obviously hope it goes well), but more because Grim Fandango is possibly the greatest adventure game ever written.  Easily in my top 10 games of all time (if I were fearless enough to make a list) and a game that holds storytelling and good game play in the utmost regard.

If you’ve played it, play again, if you haven’t, play it for the first time.  It’s a classic, and scarily it’s probably turning ten this year.  If I recall, the original tag-line was “An epic tale of crime and corruption in the land of the dead” and that holds.  An art-deco masterpiece of good storytelling, humour, and your first (and probably only chance) to play a travel agent for the department of the dead.

Buy it here:

http://www.play.com/Games/PC/4-/2555356/Grim-Fandango/Product.html?source=5003&kwmid=4481214&kmcid=1664184991&match_type=

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00004WGW1/ref=dp_olp_2

Demo here:

http://www.fileplanet.com/32113/30000/fileinfo/Grim-Fandango

Read the Escapist feature on it here:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_139/2994-Walk-Don-t-Run

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