Grim Fandango (1998) (VG)

Director:

Tim Schafer

Writers:

Eric Ingerson (co-writer)
Bret Mogilefsky (co-writer)
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Genre:

Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery

Tagline:

Something's Rotten In The Land Of The Dead... And You're Being Played For A Sucker

Plot:

Manuel Calavera is a travel agent in The Land of the Dead who has stumbled across a ring of corruption.

Plot Keywords:

Flower | Neo Noir | Skeleton | Mexican Music | Dark Humor

Cast

Tony Plana	...	Manuel 'Manny' Calavera (voice)
Maria Canals-Barrera	...	Mercedes 'Meche' Colomar (voice) (as Maria Canals)
Alan Blumenfeld	...	Glottis (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Pamela Adlon	...	Pugsy / Carla (voice) (as Pamela Segall)
Jack Angel	...	Bruno Martinez / Chepito / Large Hitman / Seaman Naranja (voice)
Richard Barnes	...	Membrillo / Skinny Hitman (voice) (as Milton James)
Bill Capizzi	...	Maximino (voice)
Barry Dennen	...	Chief Bogen / 1st Thunder Boy / Blue Casket's Waiter (voice)
Patrick Dollaghan	...	Domino Hurley (voice)
Barbara Goodson	...	Lola (voice)
Morgan Hunter	...	Toto Santos (voice)
Teri Ivens	...	Lupe (voice)
David Jeremiah	...	Aitor / Alexi / 2nd Thunder Boy (voice)
Tom Kane	...	Raoul / 2nd Mayan Mechanic / Gate Keeper / Cat Track Announcer (voice)
Paula Killen	...	Olivia Ofrenda (voice)
Kay E. Kuter	...	Dockmaster Velasco / Croupier (voice)
Katie Leigh	...	Bibi / Makeup Woman (voice)
Sal Lopez	...	Salvador Limones (voice)
Peter Lurie	...	Celso Flores / Slisko (voice)
Joe Nipote	...	Clown / Chowchilla Charlie (voice)
Daragh O'Malley	...	Nick Virago (voice)
Rachel Reenstra	...	Eva (voice)
Raphael Sbarge	...	Terry Malloy / 1st Mayan Mechanic / Ensign Arnold (voice)
Michael Sorich	...	Don Copal / Tube-Switch Repairman (later Hector's Elevator Guard) (voice)
Keith Szarabajka	...	Bowlsley / Unicycle Man (voice)
Jim Ward	...	Hector LeMans / Gunnar / Doug (voice)

Directed by
Tim Schafer

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Eric Ingerson		co-writer
Bret Mogilefsky		co-writer
Tim Schafer		writer
Peter Tsacle		co-writer

Original Music by
Peter McConnell

Production Management
Casey Donahue Ackley	....	pre-production manager
Lleslle Aclaro	....	production manager

Art Department
Peter Chan	....	concept artist
Rebecca Perez	....	3-D art technician

Sound Department
Elliot Anders	....	voiceover recording engineer
Khris Brown	....	supervising
Sylvain Brunet	....	sound post-production
Jeff Kliment	....	supervising sound editor
Michael Land	....	sound department manager
Michael Land	....	sound production supervisor
Andy Martin	....	sound designer

Visual Effects by
Greg Gladstone	....	additional modeller
Eric Ingerson	....	lead character animator

Animation Department
Vamberto Maduro	....	character animator
Chris Miles	....	character animator

Other crew
Khris Brown	....	voice director
Brad A. Grantham	....	support
Theresa O'Connor	....	lead tester

Production Companies

• LucasArts Entertainment Company

Distributors

• LucasArts Entertainment Company (worldwide)

Also Known As:

Deeds of the Dead (UK) (working title)

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish | Hungarian

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:12 | UK:12 | Austria:12 | France:-12 | Finland:K-11 | Germany:12 | USA:T

Company:

LucasArts Entertainment Company

Trivia:

The only time "grim fandango" is ever mentioned is in Olivia's poem, about two star-struck lovers who are lost in the world, and their search for each other is a four year trial (a "grim fandango").

Quotes:

[a train goes literally to Hell]
Manuel Calavera: What happened to that train?
Gate Keeper: Your destiny... cannot be purchased.

Movie Connections:

References Gilda (1946)

Corruption in the land of the dead?

Another fine game of Lucas Arts. They keep amazing me with the game they develop. If you're familiar with the lucas arts type off games then you'll know what I mean. If you're don't familiar with the lucas arts games, try one.

This time it's about corruption in the land of the dead. You're the character Manny. He is a salesman trying to sell good trips to the dead people so they can travel to the next life or something. He finds out that the good people all have to walk to the dangerous land of the dead he knows that there must be a plot. First Manny is a salesman then his adventure goes further in the woods with his henchmen Glottis (he is very funny guy, if you like happily ever after (the bunny) then you'll like this fellow to). Then he's is a club owner with Glottis in the city and much more. As you can read there is a great variety in the game that causes no boring moments.

The game is directed just like a movie. The humour is very very professional en great. You'll only need about 2mb video ram but the graphics are all they need to be. The sounds are also very clear en full with detail.

When I played the game I wasn't bored for one moment. The cutscene, ingame infrastructure en the conversations are one of the best I ever experienced.

If you like adventuregames, great plots en bones and stuff ... try this game.

On of the finest adventuregame I ever played.