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Sam & Max in 3D
Obiwan Kenobi writes "I know we see game announcements everyday (especially with E3 in full swing), but this is a biggie: The Sam & Max Sequel, Freelance Police has officially been announced. This fantastic (and hilarious) game finally gets its 3D-outing. Check out the nice trailer and stop by the official site for concept art and more." The original game is one of my fondest game memories, and this looks pretty promising.
Fantastic trailer, this has to be my most anticipated game right now. I almost forgot how scary little Max can be. Glad to see they're put the guns back into Sam and Max after that Fox cartoon fiasco.
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I don't see Steve Purcell's name anywhere on the press release. He was the original creator...anyone know if he is back on board this game? It looks sweet though and the trailer is pretty funny. Hopefully they won't make a bad sequal to my fave game.
Sam and Max - "Oboy! It's the colorized version of Citizen Kane...oh, my mistake -- it's just the Flintstones."
Yeah! Another adventure game by Lucas Arts, I hope the game will be as good as Grim Fandango, the screenshots reminded me of those great days when I spent hours and hours trying to solve Grim Fandango's puzzles. Hopefully the game will put back life into the genre.
The IT section color scheme sucks.
The 2D concept art drawings on the page have much more character and whimsy than the 3D screenshots. To quote max from the end of the trailer, "Eh, it's been done." It's as if they're making it 3D simply because 2D doesn't sell any more.
Will there ever be a 2D adventure game ever again?
(Prompted from discussion on a certain IRC channel...)
One of the best things about the original Sam n Max was the mini-games they had. There was the whack-a-mole, the alligator mini-golf, and the battleship game with cars to name a few. I just hope they keep the original spirit in the new game. Might be hard to do after 10 years! Let's hope they also do a new Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle sequel game as well. Perhaps a prequel?
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Still though, this is great. Sam and Max was one of my favorite games.
Let's hope it'll be more Grim Fandango than Money Island 4. =)
"Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
I never did play the original Sam & Max, for whatever reason. Maybe this is my chance to make up for that failing as a gamer. Looking forward to it.
great trailer. also a mirror at Linux-Screws
Here's to hoping the game release doesn't get pushed back...
with any luck, the comics will come back into print in a cross-promotion with the game. As great as the original game was, it had nothing on the comics.
I have the color special, but I didn't know about the "surfin' the highway" collection until it was out of print, and I've never been able to find a copy.
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It's very sad that after 10 years, I can finally play the original Sam & Max: Hit the Road under Linux using an emulator that LucasArts doesn't approve of (ScummVM), yet now that they is releasing a new game and has the opportunity to support multiple platforms they're only offering it for Windows! *Sigh* I guess I'll just have to hope that someone at Icculus ports it, or WineX supports it...Does anybody know of a way to let LucasArts know that I'd like a Linux port?
You're either taking the piss or a complete fucking idiot. Super Mario 64 and both N64 Legend of Zelda games were critically acclaimed and had great commercial success. Same with Sonic Adventure for Dreamcast (the same cannot be said for Sonic 3D Blast or Sonic Adventure 2 though).
I've got to say that this is the strangest post I've ever read... Let's see, where to start...
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Mario 64 - Sold incredibly well, is one of the top 10 games on the recently posted Top 100 games of all time list on IGN (I'm pretty sure, but I don't have the site in front of me since it's blocked at work). Probably on many's top 25 (mine, for sure).
Zelda (in 3d) - Ocarina of Time is also in the Top 20 of the aforementioned list at IGN. It was so popular it was re-released with the new Zelda game (which is also receiving spectacular reviews).
Sonic - I really liked the Sonic Adventure series. I'm obviously not alone since it was released for GC.
Duke Nukem - The originals were fun, yeah, but 3d was great. Sure it wasn't similar to the original, but to me, the series was getting stagnant very fast.
I don't know what you're so glum about. I was quite sure that after 9 years we would never see another Sam and Max game. It could be a tabletop game for all I care at this point.
Lighten up, sometimes modern games are good.
...they got the voice actors from the original game to return!
At the end of the trailer, it states PC CD, wich I guess means the game is coming for PC, on a CD.
But, do they really need to specify the CD part? I mean, are there still people out there releasing games on 42 floppies?
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I love this game, it's really funny and plays like the Duke games of old but with the wisecracks and sex of Duke3D. Since DN Forever is never coming out, this is the only way you'll get to play a new game of Duke...
It's like the original Duke Nukem in the way it plays (ie it's a side scrolling platform game) but rendered in 3D. They're selling it here for 5 bux!
PS: Not an ad...I'm just an uninterested big fan of the Duke...
Ohhhh soo many good quotes from the original game:
max - "I'd crap my pants if i wore any"
sam - "I'd just love to turn this little guy inside out.."
max - "oh! That gives me an idea!"
sam - "I don't indisciminately use people, except max"
Sam - "I feel that we have tampered with the fragile inner mechanisms of this space ship we call Earth."
Max - "If we have to destroy the entire west coast area just so some sweaty, quasi creatures can have a safe heaven for their disgusting lifestyles? So be it!!! "
sam - "My little buddy needs to use the facilites"
max - "facilities be damned! I need a bathroom!"
Why does absolutely everything have to be in 3D these days? I didn't see what Monkey Island gained by going 3D and I don't see what Sam & Max will.
They're freaking cartoon characters damnit!
I'd settle for more detailed animation and higher resolution. That way, it wouldn't even need the latest Geforce 10. The result would even be only better than these 2D characters to 3D transformations.
Now that I got that out of my system, I'm still really looking forward to this. Pity it won't be coming for Linux. But then, these days the only thing that sells seems to be brainless 3D-shooters (and RPGs) so the adventure game market is very small even in the Windows world. How I long for the time when Sierra and LucasArts were continuosly releasing high-quality adventures.
Those games haven't aged a bit and are still great to play. And as already mentioned, we can even play some of them in Linux thanks to ScummVM (and for the older sierra games Sarien and some others).
The old Sam and Max was so funny! I am glad that they decided to make a new one. It took me forever to figure out what to do at the big ball of yarn! I hope this one will be just as challenging and creative.
Why are so many of you disappointed about this being 3D? I can say it until I'm blue in the face. Play Gabriel Knight 3. Proof positive that adventure games are even better in 3D. So many more places to hide things. So much more to see. It's like watching a TV show where you have your own camera being able to move around in the scene. Trust me. It's great if done well.
First Full Throttle 2, now Sam and Max? 3d is great and all, but sometimes 2d really is better. A GREAT example is westwoods Bladerunner game.
I guess the days of 2d are nearing their end save for the Gameboy... *sigh*
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let's put this simply. Sam and Max is an adventure game
This is great news, same with Full Throttle 2, if they can capture what made the first so good. It was really quirky. I really regret not playing it all the way through when I had it when I was a kid, that damn ball of yarn got me mad and I stopped playing.
They also are working on a new Prince of Persia, I recently downloaded(It's free) the original Prince of Persia, and man that game is insanely harder then I remember.
So many good games coming out this year, wish I had more time to play them all...Well back to work and playing Masters of Magic
I seem to be the only person on earth with this view, but:
MI3 was worse than MI4, despite MI3 being 2-D and MI4 being 3-D.
MI3: Rehashed jokes, rehashed puzzles, pitiful explanation of MI2's ending, very few puzzles or NPCs who remain in my memory after the game's over, truncated ending sequence, ugly sprite scaling.
MI4: Fun 'commercialism' theme, new villian, more memorable characters, new twists on the series, better humor (albeit this is subjective).
I don't care what dimension the game extends into as long as it's fun, and MI3 was boring and insulting compared to the much more entertaining MI4. If they want to do Sam 'n Max in 3-D so be it, and as long as it's SAM AND MAX and not a pale imitation (FT2, Action Game(tm)!) it'll be entertaining. Don't be a dimensional elitist.
As others have lamented...
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Why 3D? Frequently it can come nowhere near the beauty of a 2D game. Look at all the beautiful art and scenery in old games, then consider the screen sizes they had to work with. It is amazing that many looked as good as they did.
A game with a story and good 2D artwork will eclipse the vast majority of 3D games.
Some of my favorite examples of failures (in my eyes at least). Railroad Tycoon, classic game... ultimate time waster. Railroad Tycoon II had much needed improvements, except for the fact that they adopted a 3D viewpoint, which made it nearly impossible to lay track well. In that case a psuedo 3D from overhead would have worked well, but due to the 3D craze...
Damn. Guess I'll just have to start my own game company.
Is LucasArts the only one making great adventure games now? I'd sure like to see more Monkey Islands, Sam and Maxes, and Grim Fandangos.