Having barely escaped LeChuck's dreadful amusement park, Guybrush Threepwood finds himself stuck in the middle of the sea, with nothing in his boat but a sausage and a diary. Musing over the events that have led him into this predicament, Guybrush suddenly discovers a ship navigated by none other than his archenemy. Once again, Guybrush saves his beloved Elaine from the claws of his undead rival. In the midst of the treasure that belonged to the defeated foe Guybrush finds a ring. Overwhelmed by his love to Elaine, he proposes marriage to her and gives her the ring. What he doesn't know is that the ring is cursed; before he is able to realize what is happening, Elaine is turned into a gold statue. Will Guybrush be able to lift the curse and to save his one and only love?

This third installment of the Monkey Island is, like its predecessors, a humorous puzzle-solving adventure game. The game features cartoon-style SVGA graphics and (for the first time in the series) voice-overs for all the conversations. The interface no longer involves a list of verbs that occupies a part of the screen; instead, it follows the same principle as in Full Throttle: the player chooses first the object to interact with, then the action from a menu that appears. Like the second game, The Curse of Monkey Island has two difficulty levels.

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Alternate Titles

"猴島小英雄III：猴島的詛咒" -- Chinese spelling (traditional)
"猴岛小英雄3:猴岛的诅咒" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
"Проклятье Острова Обезьян" -- Russian spelling (unofficial)
"Prokljatje Ostrova Obez'jan" -- Russian title (unofficial)
"Monkey Island 3" -- Informal name
"MI3" -- Common abbreviation
"La maledizione di Monkey Island" -- Italian title
"La Malédiction De l'Ile aux Singes" -- French title
"La Maldicion de Monkey Island" -- Spanish title
"CMI" -- Common abbreviation
"A Maldição da Ilha dos Macacos" -- Brazilian title
"원숭이섬의 저주 " -- Korean spelling

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	The Curse of Monkey Island	Windows	$19.99
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The Press Says

Gamezilla	Jan 12, 2001	98 out of 100	98
PC Zone	Aug 13, 2001	9.2 out of 10	92
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Jan, 1998	91 out of 100	91
GameSpot	Nov 25, 1997	9 out of 10	90
Quandary	Dec, 1997		90
Gamesmania	1997	90 out of 100	90
PC Player (Germany)	Dec, 1997	88 out of 100	88
PC Jeux	Nov, 1997	88 out of 100	88
PC Games (Germany)	Dec 03, 1997	88 out of 100	88
PC Action	Dec 17, 1997	88 out of 100	88

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Trivia

A sequence sorely missed in the German version is the shanty Guybrush's crew sings in chapter three. The song itself being a tough one to translate and the fact that it's part of a (simple) dialog puzzle obviously made the German distributor decide to drop it altogether.

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by robotriot

(8391) on Dec 07, 1999.