Recommended ONLY FOR FANS OF THE MONKEY ISLAND SERIES. Not for anyone else.

For anyone else this game will be an intolerable nonsensical mess. The play control is absolutely terrible. It's not even point & click. You have to awkwardly use a controller or the keyboard (w/o the mouse!) to clunkily navigate an unnecessarily 3D environment.

For fans of the series, the cons can be gotten over and gotten used to. It is worth playing for the story, though like others have said, this might be the weakest game in the series, but that doesn't make it terrible. It still had a lot of Monkey Island charm and humor. It was worth playing for this fan, though I doubt I will ever replay it like I have done with the first two games a million times. I haven't played the fifth (and last) game yet, so hopefully it's better than this one and goes back to actual point & click controls again.

Note: There's a nasty bug near the end involving Herman Toothrot and an object. If you find yourself unable to progress further, I posted a solution in the discussion board under a thread called "I Can't Go Forward In The Game". I did not start the thread, so look for my solution further down. You will also need to use a walkthrough guide a couple times as there are a couple of really terrible puzzle solutions, not to mention the dreaded "Monkey Kombat" <shudder>

Note 2: You will need to use DgVoodoo to fix the aspect ratio. There is a great guide for this in the "Guides" section. It even includes some instructions on how to make the controls a little better. It's super easy to do if you follow the instructions in the guide.

Recommended ONLY FOR FANS OF THE MONKEY ISLAND SERIES. Not for anyone else. For anyone else this game will be an intolerable nonsensical mess. The play control is absolutely terrible. It's not even point & click. You have to awkwardly use a controller or the keyboard (w/o the mouse!) to clunkily navigate an unnecessarily 3D environment. For fans of the series, the cons can be gotten over and gotten used to. It is worth playing for the story, though like others have said, this might be the weakest game in the series, but that doesn't make it terrible. It still had a lot of Monkey Island charm and humor. It was worth playing for this fan, though I doubt I will ever replay it like I have done with the first two games a million times. I haven't played the fifth (and last) game yet, so hopefully it's better than this one and goes back to actual point & click controls again. Note: There's a nasty bug near the end involving Herman Toothrot and an object. If you find yourself unable to progress further, I posted a solution in the discussion board under a thread called "I Can't Go Forward In The Game". I did not start the thread, so look for my solution further down. You will also need to use a walkthrough guide a couple times as there are a couple of really terrible puzzle solutions, not to mention the dreaded "Monkey Kombat" <shudder> Note 2: You will need to use DgVoodoo to fix the aspect ratio. There is a great guide for this in the "Guides" section. It even includes some instructions on how to make the controls a little better. It's super easy to do if you follow the instructions in the guide.