First Look by Penguin on 6/16/00

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If you love adventure, drama, intrigue and, of course, sidesplitting humor, you will love Lucas Arts Entertainment's new release: Escape From Monkey Island. This is the fourth game in the Monkey Island series, and takes the player on a swashbuckling adventure with Guybrush Theepwood, the game and series hero. His high adventures and the 3D effects take the gamer on the journey of a lifetime.

Escape from Monkey Island finds Guybrush and his new bride, Governor Elaine Marley-Threepwood, returning from their honeymoon to Melee Island . Upon arriving home, they quickly discover that Elaine has been declared dead, the Governor’s mansion is scheduled for demolition and the slick, yet hauntingly familiar politician, Charles L. Charles, is gunning for her job.

While Elaine scrambles to launch a reelection campaign, Guybrush is dispatched on a seemingly trivial legal errand that catapults him into a maelstrom of thievery, voodoo and experimental prosthetic devices. Armed only with his sharp wit and an uncanny ability to hold his breath for ten whole minutes, our hero makes his way ever deeper into the discovery of a villainous scheme to wipe out the Tri-Island Area using the fearsome power of the Ultimate Insult. Can Guybrush make the Caribbean safe for fun-loving, grog-swilling pirates again? Or will the twin forces of heckfire and unbridled capitalism bring an end to the swashbuckling merriment?

Set for release in Fall 2000 for PC, so begins the next captivating chapter in the long-running Monkey Island series. Buccaneers, hoist the yardarms, batten down the hatches and let the insults fly!