Sam & Max Save the World
New adventures for the canine in a hat and sharp suit and his psychopathic rabbit partner.Both seasons (eleven episodes total) will be making their way to XBLA.
Telltale Games is the new home for the Freelance Police Sam & Max, after the two spent the 90s earning critical success alongside LucasArts other point & click adventures.
Released as a full title on Xbox Live Arcade this spring as Sam & Max Save the World, with season two, Sam & Max Beyond Time & Space following at a later date.
Sam & Max could be described as hilariously twisted film noir, in which a pair of “freelance police”, operate with wild abandon in a gritty but cartoony modern big city. They practice a sort of “unvestigation,” in which mysteries and crimes are eventually solved and the common good is more or less served, but by the use of unusual, questionable methods which may well cause more harm than the original problem. The humor in Sam & Max runs towards irreverence, wordplay, and cultural satire.
It’s lovingly sardonic, unflinchingly pointing out the lunacy in our day-to-day lives while embracing that lunacy as something wonderful. The references tend to be sophisticated and sometimes obscure, but there is also plenty of over-the-top wackiness that would appeal to a younger audience.
Players are given a wide variety of opportunities including; faking a psychological condition, improvising comedy in front of a camera, traveling through time and monkeying with the past, defeating Abraham Lincoln in a mud-slinging election and using the power of the US presidency for personal gain.
You might need to bring a sense of humor.
Max gets a lot of the zanier lines, and because he is completely unfettered by conscience (as compared with Sam, who is only MOSTLY unfettered by conscience), he’s more outrageous and people tend to find him funnier. Personally, I like dry humor, for which Sam would be your man.’ your dog.’
XBLA games will have each season’s episodes collected together in a set, instead of releasing them all separately. Although the episodes are designed to be savored at a rate of one a month. Treating it essentially like the collection of a season of a popular television show that you would see after the series had had its first run.
Fortunately, the Xbox stick can be used for variable sensitivity, a simple system that’s both intuitive and easy to use.
the game’s being sold in season bundles rather than one episode at a time, so there won’t be any wait between episodes! Of course, this will put the download on the larger side.
Telltale Games are doing everything they can to keep the download small without compromising the game’s quality. Pricing hasn’t been decided yet. The release date is still to be decided but we should have a better idea of that as the game go’es through Microsoft’s approval process.
