Dose anyone know why the XBLA version of MI:SE is only 550meg and the Steam verson is just over 2 gigs? And no DirectX and .NET couldn't take nearly 1.5gigs? (could it?)

So what is the diffrence between the games?

What is MI: SE?

Ana

Monkey Island Special Edition

You could try and email someone from Xbox live and see if they can answer the question for you.

The game files for XBLA have to be smaller for those without a large hard drive. They have a file size limit on XBox for their live arcade games. It used to be 50 've expanded to allow more games. I am sure a lot of it has to do with getting rid of PC files needed in the game to run the game on the PC. XBox is so much simpler. I would think the most accurate description on how they reduce it would have to come from them I'm afraid.

Ana

Per last week's LucasArts twitter feed:

"The PC version of SOMI:SE uses uncompressed art and audio, XBLA has it's [sic] own method of compression. - that's where the size difference is at"

Thanks. Yea i have both versions now and I can not see or hear any diffrence. I in fact prefer the xbox version.. as it just looks so amazing in true HD 1080p (1920x1080 pixels) on my large tv.

The compression is not even noticable and the sound is just as good.