The Curse of Monkey Island (PS)

As is traditional with the Monkey Island games, this is quite a light-weight adventure game with a huge amount of humour. the game has 6 chapters. the first chapter is a small introductory one, and doesn't take long to get through. other chapters take much more effort to solve. there are two chapters that do have some fairly difficult puzzles get your head around. this game has two modes, normal and mega-monkey mode. the second is supposed to have more puzzles. the differences between the two aren't that great, the important puzzles seem to have remained the same. The music brilliant, just right for interesting background sounds with no real distractions. the ...  Read the complete review

The Curse of Monkey Island is the 3rd installment to the Monkey Island series and took Monkey Island to a whole new level. The graphics were a big step forward and instead of blocky characters on a low resolution, the game actually looks like a cartoon and is full of character. Gybrush Threepwood - a mighty pirate; goes on another adventure to rescue Elaine from LeChuck, after putting a curse on her! The game still uses the same gameplay as previous Monkey Islands, where you choose what to say, pick up objects, combine them to make new objects and use them at the right time and place to progress, but the controls are far easier than before. Now ...  Read the complete review