Return to Mysterious Island is a fairly good looking game in all the ways that matter. It's not going to run head to head with Myst IV in any significant sense, but all the renderings are very nice looking and the inventory items are easy to tell, at a glance, what each one is. If I had to nitpick, I'd have to say that some of the water effects aren't as nice as they could be, but like I said, that'd be nitpicking. I want to applaud in particular this game's approach to cutscenes, which are done as stylish black and white line-drawn artwork. They look like something you could reasonably expect to find in a Verne novel, and they convey a little more sense of atmosphere than a pre-rendered animation would. The audio is also rather lively, rich with birdcalls and bits of music and plenty of atmospheric effects. Also, more monkeys. You can never have too many monkeys, you know.