This Wednesday, two new Xbox LIVE Arcade games will be available from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace. The games are Sam & Max Save the World and Magic the Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers. Two very different games that will appeal to gamers who like RPGs and strategy games, in some unique form.
Sam & Max Save the World
1600 Microsoft Points ($20)
Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers
800 Microsoft Points ($10)
You can also get a free foil Magic: The Gathering card with the purchase of Duels of the Planeswalkers.
Skunkape Games has released a collector's edition of the Sam & Max Save the World vinyl soundtrack. There's also a digital album on Bandcamp.
"Two classic Sam & Max games coming to PlayStation on September 29! Sam is a six-foot canine detective with a love of justice. Max is a hyperkinetic rabbity-thing with a taste for mayhem. Together, they’re the Freelance Police—an irreverent comedy duo whose esoteric crime-fighting style has been entertaining comic book and video game fans for more than thirty years.
In Sam & Max Save the World (aka Season One), a mind-control scheme involving washed-up child stars spirals to encompass the media, the mafia, the United States government, and the internet, building up to an out-of-this-world finale. In Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space (aka Season Two), Sam & Max are back on the crime beat in a showdown with Santa Claus, a race to subdue a giant volcano, and a face-off with a Eurotrash vampire... and then things get really weird. "
Despite its storied history, it has been hard to make a good Magic: The Gathering video game. Even the best-ranked game isn't very good.
