Action Hank has provided another Xbox Live Arcade Review for Digital Download Game World:
With nearly three years having elapsed between the PC and XBLA debuts of Sam & Max Save the World, it's a welcome surprise to see the second season of the point-and-click adventure arrive just three months after the first. Entitled Sam & Max: Beyond Time & Space, the five-episode series picks up where its predecessor left off, and adheres closely to the formula that made it a notable success. Telltale's follow-up features the same refined interface, an equally zany cast, and plot that lives up to the inspired lunacy of Sam & Max's previous outing. This time, however, the difficulty has been upped to a quite literally devilish degree. The result is an extended play experience (20+ hours), but not necessarily extended enjoyment. 7.7/10
"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. "
Skunkape Games has announced that Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space Remastered, their latest Sam & Max game, is now available on the GOG store.
Some frustration caused by obtuse puzzle solutions is unavoidable due to the source material, but everything else has been polished to a fine shine. Skunkape Games has done an incredible job of bringing this classic collection of Sam & Max adventures bang up to date and they’ve never looked or sounded better.
