Sam & Max: Season One
| Sam & Max: Season One | |||
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| Studio | Telltale Games | ||
| Publisher | JoWooD | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
May 18, 2007 | ||
| platform |
Wii , Windows , Xbox 360 |
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| Game engine | Telltale tool | ||
| genre | Point-and-click adventure | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control |
Mouse , Wii remote control , gamepad |
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| medium |
DVD-ROM , Wii Optical Disc, download |
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| language | German English | ||
| Age rating |
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Sam & Max: Season One is a collection produced by the computer game developer Telltale Games and published by the JoWooD company , which consists of six episodes: Culture Shock , Situation Comedy , The Mole, The Mob and The Meatball , Abe Lincoln Must Die! , Reality 2.0 and Bright Side Of The Moon . The game collection was renamed Sam & Max Save the World in 2009 .
action
It is the successor to the PC adventure Sam & Max Hit the Road , but the story is not continued directly. The episodes are self-contained, about two hours of play, but all together form a story about the machinations of the insane “prismatologist” Rainer Segen, who wants to enslave humanity through hypnosis. Some of the storylines repeatedly refer to previous episodes. The final episode of the first season is also the finale of the overarching storyline.
Culture Shock
Written and Directed by Brendan Q. Ferguson, Dave Grossman and Steve Purcell The
content of this episode is to unravel the mystery of a group of former child stars from 1970s television series. They commit crimes that have made a fitness guru named Brady Culture better known. Sam and Max are hired to clear up the context and background of this crime series.
Situation: comedy
Script and direction: Brendan Q. Ferguson, Dave Grossman, Jeff Lester and Steve Purcell
Sam and Max end up in a television studio where a talk host has taken her audience hostage. On the way to her, Sam and Max have to audition for a sitcom and even win a casting show.
The Mole, the Mob and the Meatball
Written and directed by Brendan Q. Ferguson, Dave Grossman, Jeff Lester and Steve Purcell
A mole who was working undercover for a Mafia organization suddenly cut off contact. Sam and Max are assigned to find out what happened to him.
Abe Lincoln Must Die
Written and directed by Brendan Q. Ferguson, Dave Grossman, Chuck Jordan and Steve Purcell.
The fourth episode is about being the President of the United States , about stopping a living Abraham Lincoln statue from destroying the city of Washington. Much of the episode takes place in the White House. This episode was the only one offered for free download by Telltale Games.
Reality 2.0
Written and directed by Brendan Q. Ferguson, Dave Grossman, Heather Logas, Chuck Jordan and Steve Purcell
Something sinister is spreading across the internet and hypnotizing the world. Sam and Max have to dive into virtual reality to find the cause.
Bright Side of the Moon
Script and direction: Brendan Q. Ferguson, Dave Grossman, Heather Logas, Chuck Jordan and Steve Purcell
After discovering that none other than Rainer Segen is behind the hypnosis attacks on the world population, Sam and Max set off to his secret hiding place on the moon to put an end to his trade.
Game principle and technology
The presentation is no longer in the hand-drawn 2D graphics as used by LucasArts in their SCUMM system, but uses a newly developed 3D environment that was previously used in Bone: Out from Boneville .
Production notes
The complete package contains several extras. A fan poster drawn by Steve Purcell , a making-of video, all trailers for the six episodes, the soundtrack, biographies of the characters, background images and a Sam & Max online comic are included on the DVD. The collection was published in German stores on September 5, 2007. The first episode of the series was released on October 17, 2006 and was distributed as a download version in Europe from November 1 of the same year. A short, freely accessible demo version was offered on the manufacturer's website for each episode.
German version
Unlike the versions offered by Telltale for download, the episodes in the Season One collection have been translated into German (although the game DVD also contains the original English version and a French and Italian translation). In the German version, Sandra Schwittau (known as the dubbing voice of the cartoon character Bart Simpson ) speaks the role of the rabbit Max, while Hans-Gerd Kilbinger takes on the role of the dog Sam. Both characters are spoken by the same speakers as in Sam & Max: Hit the Road . Furthermore, the other speaking roles in the German version are cast as follows:
| role | Original speaker | Voice actor |
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| Sam | David Nowlin | Hans-Gerd Kilbinger |
| Max | William Kasten | Sandra Schwittau |
| Bosco | Joey Camen | Kai Taschner |
| Sybil | Amy Provenzano | Olivia Powell |
| Rainer Blessing (Hugh Bliss) | David Boyll | Ulrich Frank |
| Abraham Lincoln | Roger L. Jackson | Crock Krumbiegel |
| Jimmy Two-Teeth (Jimmy Two-Teeth) | Joey Camen | Gerhard Acktun |
| Myra / Auntie Biotic | Dorothy Gallagher | Kathrin Simon |
The German synchro was produced by Lunatic Studios Munich.
reception
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Sam & Max: Season One received mostly positive reviews. Metacritic aggregates 34 reviews to a mean of 74. The game was named one of the top ten best games of 2007 by GameSpy .
Web links
- Sam & Max: Season One at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.evo-x.de/evox/webdoc/complete/news/newsdetails.php?we_objectID=9051
- ↑ Official website for Sam & Max: Season One ( Memento from July 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/adventure/1471314/sam_max.html
- ↑ a b Metacritic.com: Sam & Max: Season One. Retrieved March 2, 2018 .
- ↑ GameSpy's Game of the Year 2007 ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
