>3Monkey Island 2 ------- Reviewed by M.S.C.
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    All  Amigas with 1meg or more.  Available on budget for 12.99, but we
    had to pay £44.99 because Converse bought it two years ago!

    Monkey  Island  is  one  of  the  great classics of it's genre; it's
    subtle  humour,  colourful  graphics  and outrageous tunes make it an
    absolute  gem  and  a must to play and play and play.........and play
    and  play,  and  play........and  play.   Sorry,  was I getting a bit
    repetitive  there,  kind of like Converse's reviews isn't it ?  (kind
    of like your jokes Mark- Ed)

    AAAAANNNNNNYYYYYWAY!!!  (see what I mean?-Ed.)

    Getting  back  to the review, Monkey Island really is a good game
    and  I'm  not  just  saying  that because I have shares in LucasArts.
    The  original game was absolutely hilarious and the sequel
    is  no  exception.   All  of  the jokes not included on the first are
    shown  with  all  the  humour  of very funny people who are......very
    funny, funnily enough.  This time around, the game has got a ` lite '
    version  for  people like Molgrat and other brainless numskulls.  The
    superior  intellectuals,  i.e.   you  and  me,  get  to play the full
    caboodle with the "Gimme All the puzzles, I want it All" option, this
    option  will  have  you  extremely irritated by the various difficult
    puzzles  thought  up  by those very clever people at LucasArts (Watch
    those shares go UP)
    The  game  starts  off  with  Guybrush  Threepwood  thrilling his
    friends (OOOooo-Molgrat) with the fabulous and egotistical
    story  of how he killed off LeChuck, the deadly pirate of the ghostly
    Seven  Seas!!   Anyway,  his  friends  don't  seem  to be happy about
    hearing the story for the five thousandth time, and tell Guybrush so.
    He  doesn't  seem  to be too impressed with this one, and he's off to
    find the Legendary BIG WHOOP, and mystical treasures beyond thought.
     He doesn't exactly get off to a good start however, and loses all
    his  money to the local scumbag Largo LaGrande.  The rest of the game
    is  basically  about  trying  to get off Scabb Island, this is harder
    than  it  seems  because  Lagrande will not let anyone off the island
    without lots of money, which you've just lost to him.  Great.
    SO,  the  first  thing to do is get rid of Largo, then get enough
    money  to  leave  the island, then actually leave the island.  That's
    quite  a  good  start for an HUGE game.  The rest of the Islands, are
    inhabited  by  a  massively  FAT  governor  ( FATT ISLAND ), one nice
    island  (  BOOTY  ISLAND ) and SCABB ISLAND.  The rest of the game is
    about  finding  the map ( which is in 4 bits, that you have to find )
    to Big Whoop, then finding Big Whoop, then killing LeChuck again !!!
    The music is as good as an American whistler with a Harp (Not bad)
    and the graphix are good enough to shake a loaf of Blunderswarchtz
    at as well.

    Graphix : 93%  VERY GOOD

    SOUND : 82%  SUPERB

    GAMEPLAY : 96% SUPERB                                   

    OVERALL : 97 % (I've made a fortune, watch those shares soar baby !!!)

    Hassle Factor- More or less the same as Flight of the Amazon Queen
             -4-  One disk drive can be a pain
             -2-  Two drives, aren't bad at all
             -0-  A  few  seconds  loading  per  area,  nothing worth
                  bothering about.


    For  a  budget  game,  this will keep you entertained for much longer
    than  Flight  of  the  Amazon  Queen and will save you quite a bit as
    well!  Surely one of the best games on the Amiga.  Please note:  on a
    1meg A500 with 1 drive, this game crawls, but it's still playable and
    fun.