Sam & Max: Save the World

The characters can travel between a variety of locations in the game using their black and white 1960 DeSoto Adventurer, which, when selected, will present the player with a list of available destinations. The…

82 18 July 2007

Adventure Point-and-click Comedy Mystery

Sam & Max: Save the World is an adventure developed by Telltale Games, released 18 July 2007 on Wii, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Sam & Max: Save the World is

Sam & Max: Save the World is an adventure game developed by Telltale Games and released in 2007. It was published by JoWooD Productions Software. It is available on Wii, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Sam & Max Save the World is a graphic adventure video game developed by Telltale Games. The game was originally released as Sam & Max: Season One before being renamed in early 2009. Save the World was developed in an episodic fashion, comprising six episodes that were released for Microsoft Windows over the course of late 2006 and early 2007. The episodes were initially distributed online by GameTap and Telltale Games themselves, although the later retail releases of the game were published by The Adventure Company. A Wii port of the game was published in late 2008, and an Xbox Live Arcade version was released in mid-2009. A remaster of the game by Skunkape Games was released in December…

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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are comedy and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Sam & Max series

Sam & Max: Save the World is the second of 12 entries we hold in the Sam & Max series. It arrived 14 years after Sam & Max Hit the Road. The next entry was Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space in 2008. Its critic score of 82 is 4 points above the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Poker Night at the Inventory at 96.

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How it was received

Sam & Max: Save the World holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 56 votes.

What it launched against

Sam & Max: Save the World launched on 18 July 2007, within three weeks of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition, The World Ends with You, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword and The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition, The World Ends with You, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd.

Cheats and codes

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