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Gamesâ„¢ Chronicles The Death of the LucasArts Adventure 09 Apr, 2010 / 8 comments

On their spiffy new website (there's a lot of that going round) Gamesâ„¢ magazine have as one of their launch features a wonderful article called 'The Empire Strikes Out - LucasArts And the Death of Adventure Games'.

It mostly chronicles LucasArts of the turbulent 2003-2004 period, with some nice new insight to the making of Sam & Max: Freelance Police and Full Throttle: Hell On Wheels, although saying the latter received "an enthusiastic response" from fans is a bit of an exaggeration.

Sam & Max in particular has some nice info clarifying just how close the cancelled game got to what Telltale would later do. However, I'm not sure whether this was published early 2009 in the mag itself as mentions Fate of Atlantis being included with Indiana Jones & The Staff of Kings but makes no mention of Tales of Monkey Island.
Anyway, have a read for yourself.

Source: Gamesâ„¢

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    sinus on 10 Apr, 2010, 08:46…
    Very interesting read - thanks for linking. I didn't expect to learn something new.
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    Udvarnoky on 10 Apr, 2010, 00:23…
    I like how we're still getting new details after all these years - no idea Clark spent the time between FT2's collapse and his firing pitching in on Freelance Police.
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    syntheticgerbil on 09 Apr, 2010, 22:45…
    Yeah, forget that, Full Throttle 2 looked like an abomination. It seems like people were only excited because it was Full Throttle, not really because the game seemed to be shaping up to be a worthy sequel.
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    Huz on 09 Apr, 2010, 18:06…
    Quez, GamesTM is a UK print magazine and it's very good - probably the best of the multiformat mags! It has a dedicated Retro section every month and usually has a few retrospectives worth reading. Mojo's secret histories series is the sort of thing they'd print, if they became insanely singleminded.
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    Bad Asp! on 09 Apr, 2010, 13:38…
    That article makes me want those games even MORE!
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    clone2727 on 09 Apr, 2010, 13:27…
    Heh. They don't even consider LucasArts to develop or work on the Star Wars/Indy games, just the "facilitator."

    The stinger:

    Mike Stemmle

    I’ve often joked that the reason Freelance Police got cancelled is that thousands of European adventure gamers suddenly dropped dead. Which isn’t too far from what I was told.

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    QueZTone on 09 Apr, 2010, 08:19…
    hmm, interestung!

    a site with the cool name GamesTM has potential to be a portal equal to idlethumbs, a shame it isn't! :)
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    jp-30 on 09 Apr, 2010, 03:54…
    Yeah, must be months and months old. Odd that they wouldn't update it with the Steam re-releases, the MI Special Editions and especially Tales of Monkey Island.

    Good read otherwise though.

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