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Sam & Max aren\u2019t your regular police force\u2026they\u2019re the Freelance Police. Sam is a no-nonsense dog detective and his pal Max is a hyperkinetic rabbity thing. For more than 20 years they\u2019ve been serving their brand of justice on the pages of underground comic books, on a Saturday morning cartoon, and in some popular computer adventure games. Now they\u2019re back again on Xbox Live with all the hilarious episodes of their Season Two adventures from the PC.<\/p>\n
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Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space is a series of point and click episodic adventures mixed with tons of their madcap and irreverent brand of humor. You\u2019ll guide the duo around various locales, gathering clues and items to use elsewhere to progress the story. And interrogate folks to collect more info on the current case. It\u2019s a great formula and will appeal to gamers and non-gamers alike, as it\u2019s easy to get into.<\/p>\n
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space will be pretty familiar with fans of the PC Season Two, because it\u2019s the exact same game. So if you\u2019ve already played it on the PC, you may not have as much reason to buy it again. As with other point and click adventures, there\u2019s not a whole lot of replay value here, but it\u2019s just so gosh darn funny you might want to go through it again anyway. Even though Sam & Max is a one player game, having a few friends over to watch can be helpful as a new pair of eyes can sometimes help solve particularly tricky puzzles.<\/p>\n
Play control is definitely easier with a mouse for these kinds of games, but the Xbox controller doesn\u2019t make things any less playable or anything. Really the only problem with the game is that, like most other point and click adventures, sometimes you can get stuck forever on a tough logic-defying puzzle. Luckily, this game adds a hint feature that you can toggle the frequency on to get clues as to what you\u2019re supposed to do next.<\/p>\n
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space is a great Xbox Live game for point and click adventure fans. Highly recommended and side-splittingly funny! Certainly worth the 1600 Live points if you don\u2019t have the PC version.<\/p>\n
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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Cartoon Violence, Crude Humor, Drug Reference, Mild Language, and Use of Alcohol. The use of alcohol and drug reference are minor and not glorified or anything. Most of the language is bleeped out for comedic purposes, but there\u2019s quite a bit more language in this game than in the last season. Of course the game is chock full of crude humor and cartoon violence, but if you are OK with your kids watching The Simpsons, they\u2019ll be OK with the Sam & Max game, too. Reading skill isn\u2019t necessary, as the game is fully voiced by talented voice actors (and the jazz soundtrack is pretty snazzy, too). Of course, kids will need a wacky sense of logic to solve some of those puzzles! Sam and Max often brandish guns in the game. But they don\u2019t use their guns to kill, only to solve wacky puzzles. Families with strict religious beliefs may not like the fact that you\u2019re battling against Satan and other wacky villains like a possessed Santa Claus! Because of all this, Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space is best for teen gamers, but mature pre-teens should be OK, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sam & Max aren\u2019t your regular police force\u2026they\u2019re the Freelance Police. Sam is a no-nonsense dog detective and his pal Max is a hyperkinetic rabbity thing. For more than 20 years they\u2019ve been serving their brand of justice on the pages of underground comic books, on a Saturday morning cartoon, and in some popular computer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}