Sam & Max Hit the Road

Sam & Max Hit The Road is one of those classic games that pushes a genre forward. It's colourful, inventive, plays around with its genre and is a damn good fun game to boot. I can't recommend it highly enough.

I like click adventures for, oh, about 50% of the game before getting bored and moving on to something more action oriented. I've played through to the end of this game twice. If that doesn't sum it all up, I'm not sure what does. Hands down the best adventure game I've ever played.

A hilarious adventure game, the best outside of Sierra and Steve Meretsky and a great example of how humor and imagination can liven up a game. It is filled with clever puzzles, hilarious jokes, colorful settings, weird characters, plot twists, and a great sense of adventure and mystery. Players are treated with respect: No hand-holding, no flashing messages showing you everything--all is left for you to discover. Almost everything in this game is perfect: There are a few times where the characters move too slowly, but otherwise, this is a near-perfect masterpiece. I know that the Super Star Wars series and Zombies Ate My Neighbors are console games, but is there any hope of getting them here? They really are excellent games that P.C. gamers should be able to experience.

From memory, this is probably the funniest game I've played. The location, characters and dialogue are all absolutely first rate. There are some helluva stupid and frustrating puzzles, and it is rather short, but it's still heads and tells above most adventure games. Day of the Tentacle is still Lucas Arts' best but this is right up there. I still quote it. Also, it has a wonderful soundtrack.

I played this loads when I was younger and it's so cool to see that you can download and play it today. Lucasarts were of course, king of adventure games with many timeless classics to their name: Day of the Tentacle, the Monkey Island series, Grim Fandango, etc..., and this one is no exception. It uses the same engine as Day of the Tentacle and shares that game's wierd, slightly dreamy art style and super dialogue that is at times hilarious and clever. The puzzles are challenging but never stupid. There's a classic iMuse score with those strange and sometimes eerie sounds. Adventure games are a lot art these days so don't miss this classic from the golden era of the genre.