Sam & Max Season Two
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| “Sam & Max Season Two” | |||||||
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 Season Two boxart | |||||||
| Developer | Telltale Games | ||||||
| Publisher(s) | Telltale Games GameTap | ||||||
| Villain | Soda Poppers | ||||||
| Release date | November 8, 2007 - April 10, 2008 | ||||||
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Sam & Max Season Two, also known as Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, is an episodic series of adventure games by Telltale Games which follows on from Sam & Max Season One. The game was announced on September 25, 2007, with a full Telltale Games announcement on September 28, 2007.
Season Two builds on Season One with more dynamic NPCs, an updated engine, a hint system, support for widescreen monitors, more realistic animations, and more mini-games within each episode. Season Two features a calibration assistant when first run, which allows the player to set their graphics and difficulty settings before playing.
Unlike Season One, where GameTap users were able to access each episode two weeks before it was available through Telltale's website, Season Two reduced this period down to one day. The first episode, "Ice Station Santa", was released on November 8 on GameTap, followed by a worldwide release on November 9. However, the second episode was delayed until January 11, 2008. New episodes were thereafter released on the second Thursday and Friday of each month.
As with Season One in 2007, Season Two was released on Steam, on May 16, 2008. It was released on Xbox Live Arcade under the title Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space on October 14, 2009. It was also released for the Wii on March 9, 2010, and for the Mac on May 18, 2010.
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[edit] Overall plot
The connection between the episodes is more loose and complicated than in the first season. Ultimately everything ties into a ploy by the Soda Poppers (who turn out to be demon princes with a high position in Hell) whereby they trick Sam & Max into damaging Hell enough for them to be able to oust Satan and take control themselves. To this end they had T.H.E.M. abduct Bosco while Sam and Max were busy dealing with Jurgen in Stuttgart. The volcanic eruption central to Moai Better Blues was a signal for T.H.E.M. to pick up the Moai Heads they needed. As with Season One, the events of the first episode were not part of the plan: the Poppers had mistakenly sent the Shambling Corporate Presence to Santa instead of Satan.
[edit] Characters
Heavily recurring and otherwise key characters in Season Two are the following:
- Sam
- Max
- Flint Paper
- Jimmy Two-Teeth
- Sybil Pandemik
- Bosco
- The C.O.P.S.
- Stinky
- Pedro (T.H.E.M.)
- Soda Poppers
See the individual episodes for characters of lesser importance.
[edit] Episodes
| # | Episode | Release date (GameTap) | Release date (International) | Overview |
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| 1 | "Ice Station Santa" | November 8 2007 | November 9 2007 | An ancient and bloated pagan god sends a bloodthirsty war robot to destroy Sam & Max. |
| 2 | "Moai Better Blues" | January 10 2008 | January 11 2008 | Sam & Max travel to the tropics where they try to stop a volcanic eruption. |
| 3 | "Night of the Raving Dead" | February 12 2008 | February 13 2008 | Sam & Max crash an emo European vampire's nightclub to stop a zombie apocalypse. |
| 4 | "Chariots of the Dogs" | March 13 2008 | March 14 2008 | Sam & Max work with Flint Paper to discover what happened to a missing Bosco. |
| 5 | "What's new, Beelzebub?" | April 10 2008 | April 11 2008 | Sam & Max travel to hell to confont Satan and retrieve Bosco's lost soul. |
[edit] Reception
| Title | Metacritic | GameRankings |
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| "Ice Station Santa" | ||
| "Moai Better Blues" | ||
| "Night of the Raving Dead" | ||
| "Chariots of the Dogs" | ||
| "What's new, Beelzebub?" | ||
| Season Two PC version |
Season Two was well-received and is generally considered to improve significantly over Season One. The last two episodes are especially highly acclaimed.
[edit] Awards
- General
- Won Adventure Gamers' Aggie Awards for Best Writing (Comedy), Best Gameplay, Best Music, Best Third-Person Adventure and Best Adventure of 2008. [1] Also won Readers' Choice awards for Best Writing (Comedy), Best Voice Acting, Best Sound Design, Best Third-Person Adventure and Best Adventure of 2008.
- Best Graphic Adventure Game of 2008 from IGN [2]
- Chariots of the Dogs
- Editor's Choice from PC Gamer
- What's new, Beelzebub?
- Editor's Choice from PC Gamer [3]
[edit] External links
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