Telltale Games: Sam & Max first season for $5

[tuftears]

Want to get the first Sam & Max season for $5? Sure you do! Great point-and-click style adventures with lots of humor. The total season will run you about 12-18 hours of gameplay, so this is pretty nice value for money, IMO.

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[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

At some point, I need to get Season 2. Gwendel and I got Season 1, and played through it as a sort of cooperative effort. (We've got an older PC rigged up to our TV set in the front room, which drops the resolution quite a bit, but it still works to make it a little more social than one person playing a game for hours on end.)

The adventures are fairly easy insofar as adventure games go. (That isn't to say that I didn't still need some hints at certain points.) That's not a problem, though, as far as I'm concerned: The segments are very cinematic. Plus, there are lots and lots of wisecracks and little surprises for all the "wrong" things that one does (and I would have missed all of it if I'd just blown through the game with a walkthrough).

In terms of character, it's very much Sam & Max. I really need to get a copy of "Sam & Max Hit the Road," so I can show that to Gwendel. (We recently got the revamped version of "Secret of Monkey Island," and Gwendel became a fan. She had missed it the first time 'round, since she wasn't much into "adventure games.")

For $5, I'd certainly recommend it.