Space Quest V: The Next Mutation

The Good
Um. Not much. Some of the graphics were pretty. And the space monkey bit was funny.

The Bad
Besides the fact it generally sucked? The humor was all but gone in this one, or at least the sarcastic one-liners which, for me, was the heart of Space Quest. It's left as a rather lame parody of Trek, trying to illicit chuckles with characters like the villianous "Captain Quirk." Har Har. Seeing Rog do the "Picard Tug" once when getting out of his seat is funny. Seeing him do it EVERY TIME he stands up gets old. Gameplay was equally shallow and uninvolving, broken up by some inane pseudo-arcade sequences that are just there to pad out the game. (the worst being one where you have an extremely limited amount of time to pick up a crewman stranded in space)

The Bottom Line
It should tell you something when this was one of the few Sierra games of its time for which they didn't shell out the money to do a talkie CD. Definately the low point in the series, and best skipped by all but the most die-hard Wilcoids.