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Last month at GDC, LucasArts announced their plans for The Secret of Monkey Island 2 Special Edition, which will bring both graphical and audio upgrades of the classic adventure game sequel. This week the publisher sent over some new screenshots that compare and contrast the Special Edition visuals with the original game.

We have put those screenshots in our newly updated gallery which you can check out below the post. As with last year's remake of the first Monkey Island game, this new version will have not only updated graphics but also a revamped musical score, full voice acting and a hint system. It will also allow players to listen to in-game commentary from the game developers and a way to directly control the main character instead of the typical point-and-click adventure game mode. The remake is still supposed to be released this summer.

As previously rumored, LucasArts has just announced plans at a GDC 2010 event to release The Secret of Monkey Island 2: Special Edition, a new graphical remake of the classic 1991 adventure game. Our sister site Joystiq reports that the remake will be a little different than 2009's relaunch of the first Monkey Island game. In addition to the old point-and-click gameplay players will be able to move lead character Guybrush Threepwood around a bit. Expect to hear developer commentary in the new remake too (shades of Valve's recent games). The Secret of Monkey Island 2: Special Edition will be released for the PC and other platforms sometime this summer. We will post up some screenshots of the remake as soon as we get them.

In related news, the first Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition game will be ported to the Mac OS (no date was revealed) and will soon be available on Telltale Games's web store as well as the InstantAction.com web browser game site.

Update: The game's official web site has now launched and we now have some screenshots that compare scenes from the original with the remake in the gallery below.