The Curse of Monkey Island

"The best P.C Game yet!"

Aye! Shiver me Timbers as you are going to read the review for the best P.C game ever. Okay! Enough pirate talk from me! The Monkey Island has took gamers by storm, since its first game all those years ago, about Guybrush Threepwood, a man with a destiny, to become a pirate!

Story - 10 : The game starts off with Guybrush near Monkey Island in a bumper/dodgem car. He is missing Elaine, he is hungry and gets caught up in a battle near Plunder Island. Guybrush gets captured by his foe ''LeChuck'' and is taken onboard his ship. Guybrush meets up with an old friend, Wally, and finds out that his love intrest, Elaine is battling LeChuck from Plunder Islands fort. Guybrush destroys LeChuck once more and escapes the ship and meets up with Elaine on Plunder Island. Guybrush proposes to Elaine, and when he gives her the ring, she turns into a solid, gold statue. Its all up to Guybrush to get the ''Uncursed'' ring and save her!

Graphics - 10 : The Curse of Monkey Island graphics are cartoony, it seems ripped out of Fox Kids or Cartoon Network, which is great. The back grounds and close up things are in massive detail! The character animations are outstanding, not slow and jerky, but nice and smooth, great lightning and shadow effects.

Sound and Music - 10 : If you have read any of my other reviews, you'll notice I am not very bothered with either music or sound, but this makes a exception. Why? Because the speech is brilliant, it will make any other game or cartoon with speech in blush. Characters mouth stop when the speech over, unlike most games. The music is piratey, and caribean style. The best thing done with the music is the songs, there are several shanteys and poems, but there is a proper song in the game, starring pirates, and it'll be one of the funniest songs you will ever hear in you're life!

Gameplay - 10 : Being a puzzle game, Monkey Island 3 is a very hard game, and it is very funny. You have two ways of playing the game, a mouse, where you point of click or confusing controls on a keyboard, Its up to you. Plus, there are two modes of play, a Normal or a Mega Monkey (Same as normal, but with more puzzles). In Monkey Island 3, you cannot go wrong, you cannot die, and the puzzles make sure you get each and every item before moving on to the next chapter.

Replaybility - 10 : Having a basic idea on what to do, the game takes roughly 30 hours to complete, but if you take you're time and not use a guide, it can be like 40-50 hours on normal mode. Mega-Monkey (Hard mode)adds more difficulty, so combine the two and ou have about 70 hours of gameplay on you're first run, and you'll want to play through again.

Overall - 10 : The BEST Monkey Island and PC game yet. You must bye adventure fans! A gripping story, and hilarious things, you NEED this game. it is worth every piece of eight!

Reviewer's Score: 10/10, Originally Posted: 06/30/01, Updated 06/30/01