Rating: 
Summary: Ever so Perfect!
Review: I can not stress enough how much I loved this game. The scenes and graphics are just lovely, the music is fitting and fantastic, the characters (especially Eva, Olivia, and Max) are amusing, eccentric, and couldn't be wittier or more enjoyable. Like a good novel, except there's not way NOT to identify with the main character, and the sites and sounds are so much more real. Action, adventure, gambling, revolution, film-noir characters and memorable dialogue, clever twists, big cars, irony and death, love, scyth fights, wit, humor, poetry, a big octopus...this game has it all! And Rubacava, the city that never died, is this misty little boardwalk port city that I know I'll make sure to visit when I enter the ninth underworld.
Rating:
Summary: The Best Game of All Time
Review: The most wonderful game I've ever played, the game immerses you in the wonderous 3d atmosphere, which, while outdated at the present, was the best of its time. I played this game and I still play it through. It has you laughing one minute and crying the next. Its like actually playing a movie. The characters touch you and even though they're animated you feel as if they've seriously befriended you. This game is my favorite game of all time and a must have for any adventure gamer.
Rating:
Summary: The best game EVER!!
Review: This game acheives the perfect balance. It's challenging without the puzzles being too obscure (sure you need a good imagination), its funny and heart-warming and it is packed full of great scenery and audio which gives the game a brilliant atmosphere. I played some of the Monkey Island games and enjoyed them, though I sometimes got a little frustrated with the obscurity of the puzzles and the sometimes sticky gameplay. Grim Fandango has none of that however, with its seamless gameplay and quick to master controls.Grim Fandango deserves to be a classic and is so involving with its suptuous backdrops, dry humour and fantastic plot and loveable characters, it is sure to become a favourite in your game collection. If you are anything like me you will often want to play it again, just like you would watch a great movie over and over.
Rating: 
Summary: Great graphics, but somewhat boring...
Review: I enjoyed this game, what I played of it... I still haven't gone back to it... Without a cheat sheet you'll go nowhere... I know, I don't have one... The graphics are great but, it's somewhat boring... But, then again, I'm into action and adventure... You might like this... Someday when I'm bored, I'll go back to it and try to get it to go somewhere... Ho hum...
Rating:
Summary: Grim Fandango
Review: I bought Grim Fandango about a year ago, while I
was on this big Noir kick. Which, happily, I am
still in. I stummbled onto the Top Selling games on here,
what a surprise it was to see that Grim Fandango
was in the top 50's. Deservingly I might add. Grim Fandango is a great game for it's ambiance,
for it's style, for some very nice plot and for
the fact that it's Noir. It's a difficult game
with all it's puzzles. Like most of the other
Lucas Art games you can't really die, which is
a great change of pace with all the other games
out there. So if you're looking for a game that has a lot
of style, a lot of plot, a wonderful setting or
a great soundtrack, give Grim Fandango a run
for the money. Anyone who loves Noir and video
games, this is a must have...
Rating:
Summary: Short but Sweet.
Review: This is an excellent game. The graphics, the storyline, everything, is worth the quite reasonable price. And eventhough it's an older game it still has incredible graphics and is just plain fun. The only problem....it's too short. It took me altogether about 6-8 hhours to complete which was very dissapointing. I could have played this game for 100 hours at leat. All I can say is get this game. I guarnteee yu won't regret it. No matter what kind of gamer you are this is a great little distraction for a few days. The replay value is nil, but the game is so cheap (price wise) it dosen't matter. So, I encourage everyone to get this game and join the little funny dead guy named Manny and have a blast!
Rating: 
Summary: Loads of Fun
Review: Not very groundbreaking in terms of gameplay, but an absolute joy to spend time solving. Not too hard, not too easy, visually stunning.
The game plays very similar to Full Throttle, an older LucasArts game made by the same Creative team.
At the ten dollar price it's at now, it would be impossible to be disappointed.
Rating:
Summary: Love it
Review: I have to say I am not "great" at this type of games but I truely love GF. This was an entertaining game: story line and "puzzles." It kept me interested the whole time I played and I was quite sad when the game came to an end. I wish they would create a sequel to this game.
Rating:
Summary: A hip, hilarious sendup of just about...everything.
Review: "Grim Fandango" is the coolest game *ever* even though it was released in 1998. It isn't your average game: from beginning to end you travel for four years through the Land of the Dead. You play as Manuel (Manny) Calavera, travel agent with the DOD (Department of Death) in a city named El Marrow that is an Art Deco, stylized Mexico City of sorts. Your job: to find the woman of your dreams that you accidentally sent packing. Oops. Along the way you have to avoid being sprouted, blown up, decapitated...not an average day's work, amigo. The game incorporates various elements from Mexican/Aztec culture, especially the artwork adorning buildings (the DOD office, the S.S. Lamancha, the temple in Year Four). There are also spoofs in the game of film noir (Casablanca:Manny's casino), Las Vegas-style casinos and neon lights (El Marrow towards the end, Rubacava), hippies (the audience in the Blue Casket, open mic night and phrases like daddy-o, hepcat, and the man), and pretty much everything else thrown in (giant kitty litter boxes, claustrophobia, French waiters, hangovers, romantic tension, gunfights, fistfights, fast cars. Jokes are fast and furious and always hit the mark. "Grim Fandango" features the best writing I have ever seen in a game. This seems more like a Tim Burton meets Woody Allen project (think Nightmare Before Christmas): talking skeletons who smoke, drink, gamble and cheat on one another (some that are overly neurotic/paranoid (Chowchilla Charlie), swearing sailors (Toto, Naranja), morbid coroners, deranged florists, femme fatales (Meche, Olivia), perky coatgirls and plenty of baddies. Even though the game is four years old, the 3D graphics still look wonderful, and the cutscenes flow smoothly. Load times were not terrible considering rendering requirements. The soundtrack is absolutely amazing (it can be purchased through LucasArts), covering Mexican mariachi, Andean panpipes, jazz and Spanish-influenced orchestral music. Nothing objectionable violence wise, some mild swearing, a few risqué jokes and a disclaimer saying that "Grim Fandango" glorifies smoking and alcohol use along with the following: the characters are already dead so it's ok. The most clever, involving, unusual game that I've ever had the pleasure to play, "Grim Fandango" has a place of honour in my collection.
Rating:
Summary: Proof that a computer game can be a great work of art
Review: Some people have compared Grim Fandango to a great movie. The comparison is apt, but it actually doesn't do this game justice. As much as I love movies, I can't think of a movie I've seen where I've actually been sad that the movie was over, as I might feel after I've finished a great book. As I realized I was looking at the last shot of the game, I was overcome with this sadness. The game has flaws, but they are all technical... a few bugs, a few quirks. But I wouldn't even think about dropping the rating of the game on that basis, because everything else about the game is such an accomplishment. Computer games don't have the right to be this good. On an artistic level, everything is first rate. The voice acting: brilliant all around... the actors deserve mention: Tony Plana is dead on perfect as Manny Calavera, Maria Canals nails the sexy and mysterious side of Meche, and Alan Blumenfeld is hilarious as Glottis. And there are are more... I hope that they are all proud to have worked on a game like this, even if a game ain't the most sparkling thing on an actor's resume. The writing: equally superb... the humour is subtle and sophisticated (can't get enough of the open mic gag at The Blue Casket!) the drama is evocative... the writing is half of the reason the acting was so great... the actors really had stuff they could sink their teeth into. The art direction: the cities and landscapes they create are so vivid... I actually had dreams about Rubecava. Anyway... I could go on for hours about the grand achievment that is Grim Fandango. This game is only $10 right now on Amazon.... that is a ridiculous bargain! This isn't just a great computer game... it is a great, interactive work of art.
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