you should definitely escape from monkey island and land yourself back to the curse of monkey island (Escape from Monkey Island (PC))

Member Name: zemyp

Product:	Escape from Monkey Island (PC)
Date:	25/04/01 (12 review reads)
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Advantages: interesting monkey puzzler

Disadvantages: not as good as monkey 3

having played monkey island 2 and 3 i can't say this game wasn't enjoyable but it didn't meet my expectations. in this game the mouse is left out of use so going from place to place takes a lot longer as you cant just double click where you want to go.

in case anyone didn't know monkey is land is a "swashbuckleing adventure" with pirates and gags through the whole story. the dissapointing thing is that monkey 4 didn't really carry on the tradition vil pirate le chuck story line. if you are confused already, don't buy the game. there isnt much introduction to the game so if you don't know who the voodoo lady, lechuck, guybrush and elain are, you wont get much of the story line.

another dissapointing thing is some of the puzzles. for instance one is to bring hermans memory back. there is no logic to it and i couldnt work it out. in the end i reverted to an online guide from which i learnt you have to chuck about ten things at his head in order, this isn't a puzzle, its just a pointless waste of time. this scenario compares well to one in monkey 3 where you have to cure the barmans headache. in that case you found a recipe book containing a cure and so you had to find the ingredients using differn't methods which puzzled you but at least you knew what you had to do.

if anyone has the game and can't get a 10 from the splash diving contest judge, you obviously havn't worked out the stupid puzzle where when in the school you must get every question completely wrong, how stupid is that!.

for anyone looking for a puzzler i would storongly reccommend the monkey island series but in perticular monkey 3 - it rocks as it has logical puzzles.

all i can really say is if you have played other games in the series buy monkey 4, if not vote for the cheaper and better game monkey3, and you won't even need a 3d card.

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