{"id":4644,"date":"2010-06-22T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=4644"},"modified":"2010-06-22T01:00:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T07:00:12","slug":"sam-max-season-3-the-devils-playhouse-episode-3-the-stole-maxs-brain-pc-ps3-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/22\/sam-max-season-3-the-devils-playhouse-episode-3-the-stole-maxs-brain-pc-ps3-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam & Max: Season 3: The Devil’s Playhouse: Episode 3: The Stole Max’s Brain! (PC, PS3, iPad)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>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 ready for their third season of crazy madcap episodic point and click adventures! (PC version reviewed here)<\/p>\n

In their last episode of a five part season, Sam & Max were watching an interactive movie about their ancestors and how they found The Devil\u2019s Toybox. But while they were mesmerized by the film, someone snuck in and stole Max\u2019s psychic brain! Now his dog partner Sam is mad as heck, and must forcefully interrogate the lowlifes in the city streets in order to find his pal\u2019s noggin!<\/p>\n

But the adventure doesn\u2019t end there! With the help of a lovable giant cockroach security guard, Sam will need to take back Max\u2019s brain and thwart an evil plot by villains new and old that will end up changing the fabric of reality itself! Needless to say, the story has so many twists and turns that you WOULD be on the edge of your seat, if you wouldn\u2019t already be on the floor laughing at all the hilarious wisecracks!<\/p>\n

Max (or his brain, rather) gets a new psychic toy to help you solve puzzles in this newest episode. You got to use it for a little bit in the first episode, but it\u2019s used more prominently here. It\u2019s Rhinoplasty and works like Silly Putty. Stick it on a picture and Max will be able to shape shift into the lifted imprint. You\u2019ll use this power to solve many a wacky puzzle!<\/p>\n

The point and click riddles are a lot more intuitive this time around. The writing is still witty and clever, and the play control is easy to learn. It does help a little to play the past episodes in the Sam & Max series so you\u2019ll know who all the crazy characters are! Can\u2019t wait for Episode 4!<\/p>\n

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They Stole Max\u2019s Brain is rated E10 for Everyone 10 and up with ESRB descriptors of Alcohol Reference, Cartoon Violence, Comic Mischief, and Mild Language. This episode is a little more violent than the others. When Sam is angry about Max\u2019s brain-napping, he makes no qualms about smacking people around and flicking a few rats\u2019 ears! And the bad guy gets his brain removed with a rusty corkscrew! Granted, all this stuff happens off screen. All the other descriptors are in the text only. If you\u2019re OK with your kids watching satirical TV shows like The Simpsons, they\u2019ll be OK playing this game, 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-4644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644","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=4644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}