
	Platform PC Genre Adventure Publisher Telltale Games / GameTap Developer Telltale Games ESRB T (Teen) Released August 2008

- Plenty of extras, including wallpapers and funny outtakes, that the hard-core Sam & Max fans will completely enjoy (if the full-length adventure weren't enough)

‑ Christmas video disappointingly is only a machinima walk-through of the Ice Station Santa episode

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Sam & Max Season Two

Score: 9.0 / 10

It began at the North Pole and ended in Hell. Yes, the recently completed second season of the episodic Sam & Max series sent the goofy gumshoes on five insane time-traveling, afterworld-visiting, globetrotting adventures. With the season now completed, all five games are available in one collection with the release of Sam & Max Season Two.

Although the gameplay is very comparable in quality to Season One, the second season features a much more complex storyline that conveniently tied itself

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together at the conclusion of the finale episode. The writing is excellent once more, and just as hilarious. With over 500,000 episodes sold through the first two seasons, Sam & Max fans have thoroughly enjoyed the duo’s adventures.

For those that have played all five episodes of Season Two, there’s nothing new gameplay-wise. For those that haven’t played through

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the entirety of the season, however, this collection is the perfect opportunity to elicit the point & click pleasure provided by Sam & Max gaming, which should end up totalling around 15-20 hours of rib-tickling, riotous adventuring by the crazy combo.

In addition to the season’s five complete episodes, Sam & Max Season Two has more than a few bonuses for fans. There’s over four hours of audio commentary, a concept art gallery, a new outtake reel (that has some truly laugh-out-loud funny moments), trailers, wallpapers, MP3 soundtrack sampler and designer notes. All these bonus features expand the overall enjoyment of the second season.

Only one bonus was a slight disappointment: the 20-minute holiday special, “Sam & Max Nearly Save Christmas,” which turns out to be nothing more than a machinima walk-though of the first episode, Ice Station Santa.

Sam & Max Season Two is the perfect Sam & Max compilation that provides a fantastic PC gaming experience to those that haven’t gone on a Sam & Max adventure while giving a plethora of goodies for those that already have played each and every episode of the just-completed season.

- Lee Cieniawa

lcieniawa@armchairempire.com

(August 7, 2008)