The remasters of Telltale’s series have been an incredibly nostalgic journey while enhancing the graphical fidelity, art style, and some aspects of the gameplay. This latest edition, , marks the end of the long remastering adventure, significantly upgrading the graphical design and leading to a somewhat different aesthetic. It also keeps the core puzzle challenges […]
History repeats itself. Just as Telltale Games followed up their inaugural episodic season of six games with a second season of five episodes, now Skunkape Games has done the same. collects all five, second season Telltale episodes into a single remastered edition that takes its cues from the previously released remaster of the first. More […]
The year was 2006 when Telltale Games brought Sam & Max back to the gaming world with , the premiere of the six-episode first season of adventures following the comedic, misanthropic exploits of the Freelance Police: Sam, a six-foot-tall canine shamus, and Max, a hyperkinetic three-foot rabbity thing. Releasing at a time when adventure games […]
Making the first Sam & Max game in virtual reality was always going to be a challenge, as we’re so used to the classic-styled point-and-click adventure gameplay from the duo’s highly acclaimed LucasArts debut and later three successful seasons from Telltale. Rather than simply copy the same formula, Happy Giant made a number of significant […]
“I can't tell if it's comical or life-threatening.” It's been remarkably easy for supporters of the serialized adventure concept to trumpet the positive aspects of such an idea without consideration of the negatives. And the serialized adventure is a fantastic idea in theory, ideally eliminating the boredom that can set in the middle of longer […]
“Fame is a distressingly exact mistress.” I suppose it would be rather rhetorical to say that expectations for Sam & Max: Episode 2 – Situation: Comedy are in a pretty different area than the emotions that greeted Episode 1 – Culture Shock. The very existence of that game was a revelation, an early Christmas miracle, […]
With souls on the line and the fate of mankind hanging by a thread, Sam & Max will come face to face with their biggest, baddest adversary ever. Judgment day is at hand, and it’s time for a showdown with the guy downstairs to bargain for Bosco’s soul. But, in the corporate wasteland known as […]
Bosco’s vanished from the face of the Earth—literally! When Sam & Max manage to track him down, what they find is so mind boggling, you’ll have to see it to believe it. Can the Freelance Police set things right, or will life as they know it fall victim to the capricious whims of T-H-E-M?
This installment brings the fearless freelance duo to the spooky town of Stuttgart, where they come head to head with a vampire and his zombie army bent on (what else?) world domination.
A surprise trip to the tropics turns into a working vacation when Sam & Max sign up to stop a massive volcano eruption. Will their special blend of bewildering wit and renegade justice be enough to win over the gods? (Not to mention the locals?)
