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This is the third game in the Monkey Island series of popular comical computer
adventure games released 6 long years after the previous game. It's the twelfth and
last game to use the SCUMM engine, which was
extensively upgraded for its last outing before being replaced by the GrimE engine for
the next game in the series, Escape from Monkey Island. It's the first Monkey Island
game to be voiced, and has a graphic style more cartoon-ish than the earlier games.
After the vague and surrealistic ending of Monkey Island 2, Guybrush Threepwood is
inexplicably found on the sea, after an undefined adventure he had, and his escape
from the Big Whoop where he was trapped for an undisclosed period of time. He
eventually approaches Plunder Island and and is startled to find that he has drifted
right into the middle of a raging ocean battle between the demon pirate LeChuck and
Elaine, his lost love! But unfortunately before he can join her, LeChuck captures him
and here we go again, off on another "rollicking tale of swashbuckling adventure with
dull blade and rapier wit"! |