Are the new Sam & Max games only available on GameTap?

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...or is there some other way to get them, say on CD from a brick&mortar store of some sort?
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google · Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Location: Vancouver, BC

You can download them from Telltale direct, I believe, although you cant find them in stores, yet...

My guess is that once all the episodes have been released digitally, a compilation of sorts will be available via B&M.
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sawtooth · heh Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: flashback

for those who have played the sam and max episodes:

do they use the same engine as the bone games?

More importantly, do they play similarly to the bone games (unfortunately mind-numbing and kind of flaky)
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ApM · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

I've played the first two episodes so far. One sentence review: They're pretty good, if you like adventure games! I find I don't notice too much adventure-gamey bullshit. The second one is much tighter than the first, but they've both got some clever bits in them.

Basically, take a high-quality AGS game, and bump everything (graphics, writing, puzzle design, but not length) up a notch. Two notches would be pushing it.

BalbanesBeoulve · Malicious Bastard Joined: 04 Dec 2006

I'm just waiting for the Wii port.

dongle · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Berkeley, CA

Shit that Sam and Max Surfing the Highway book is going for $200 on amazon. I'd sell it but that's one of my most treasured childhood possessions.

Leau · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Metro City

Yea, the word is that when the entire "Season" is done (6 episodes I believe) they will all be available at retail in a single package for 34.99. Not bad I say. I'm going to wait and pick that up, as I can't be bothered with all this episodic nonsense which is constantly babbled about on gamasutra, although no one seems to want it.
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taidan · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

The trailer for Episode 4 is kind of amazing. I'm pretty excited. Right now only Telltale can have Max on the presidential podium and the quote "Abe Lincoln must die" and make me smile.

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BotageL · Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 1:09 am

I'm enjoying the new episodes. I'm a little bummed that they've reused all the comments on items in locations that haven't changed over the course of the episodes, but the episodes to-date have remained consistently funny. They're doing an admirable job of achieving their goal of making the videogame equivilent of a sit-com TV series.
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Kriv · Joined: 03 Jan 2007

Am I the only one who thinks the new S&M's are really bad?

For starters the puzzles are pathetic, majority of them just feel like you have to talk to a character t progress rather than some clever use of items.

The humour is lacking. The Lucasarts one made me literaly cry with laughter, of the 3 new ones I have played I managed a slight chuckle in episode 1.

I'd rather play Escape from Monkey Island than this.

Or am I being overly critical? Grim Fandango is currently occupying my time, which on every level outshines S&M.
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taidan · Joined: 05 Dec 2006