Sam & Max Hit the Road

Sam & Max hit the road contrary to it's title does not involve Sam and or Max hitting a slab of concrete for 4-6 hours, rather Sam and his Lagomorph pal Max must search for a big hairy bigfoot and his long giraffe necked girlfriend. It's full of creative and funny dialogue, and a bunch of puzzles that make my pea brain snap. Basically what i'm saying is buy this game with money and if you don't have money find some. It's worth every cent.

I am pretty sure this review will be lost among pages and pages or words, but anyway, my important opinion: Sam&Max was developed in a kind of rush after Day of the Tentacle (and it shows - some characters are recycled from that game, a habit that would be followed up in the Telltale series) but it shows a professionalism from Lucasarts at that era that is almost scary. The plot is a satire of USA tourist traps (I was surprised when I learnt that all the places of the game either exist or exist in a very similar manner), the design is open ended as only Lucasarts really knew how to do it, and the production values are pretty. It may not have the same character as their other adventures, mostly because they get humour and characters from a franchise whose humour was different from a DOTT or Monkey Island, but this turns out into a laidback sunny "road movie" adventure that never feels totally unfair in its enigmas and puzzles. Ok, the interface is not the best (I get tired of right clicking over and over) but the digs at the awesomely ugly and laughable museums are golden. And most of all, I love the kind of Marx brothers chaos nature of it all. No, most of all: it planted the seed for the Telltale adventures.

This is a literal great old game that I've really enjoyed so far! The animation style, story, ambience, and humor are fantastic! I have no nostalgia factor either, and was just wanting a great classic point and click adventure/detective game. And I found it in this one!

What an entertaining and absurd point-and-click adventure. This game will keep you smiling and giggling throughout. The dialogue is clever, and the chemistry between the main characters is spot-on. It reminded me of the old animated shows I used to watch on Cartoon Network—full of bizarre scenarios and exaggerated humour. Even though I’m not familiar with other Sam & Max media, the game still evoked a nostalgic feeling. Some puzzles were genuinely challenging, as is typical in the genre. The alligator and golf puzzle, for example, gave me a tough time, as did the final puzzle of the game. But the difficulty never detracted from the fun. If other Sam & Max games maintain this level of wackiness and sharp writing, I’ll be sure to play them eventually.

I remember playing this game for he first time as a gift and found it side split splittingly funny, years later when I forgot about it, it surfaced again included wth an original Secret of Monkey Island cd rom I bought on eBay, since then I'd been playing it occasionally on SCUMMVM as the years passed and computers got less and less friendly to old games. I love this game, it's quirky, silly, brutal comedy and damned brilliant in all the ways of the classics, now all it needs is to be remade like Grim Fandango and Day Of The Tentacle! Oh and so should Monkey Island 3 (giggle)