Sam & Max Hit the Road

Waiting for the remaster from the original authors!

I loved the Monkey Island adventures and Day of the Tentacle, so I was really looking forward to this game. I was assured my many other reviews that it would be really funny, with a lot of memorable characters and all the hallmarks of a great LucasArts adventure. But this was far from the case. The characters are for the most part bland and uninteresting, there's maybe one memorable character (the chief's wife), the rest are soulless props just there to advance the plot. I was expecting to fall in love with Sam & Max, but while there are a few nice moments it's hard to get a sense of who they are as characters. The humor falls flat, aside from a few lines. A lot of the time there isn't any attempt at humor beyond the characters being in strange situations. Monkey Island is about a thousand times funnier than this game, which I wasn't expecting. The plot is paper-thin, among the worst I've ever played in an adventure game. The game is spent visiting random, disconnected locations across the country trying to find an escaped bigfoot. There are no real plot twists, revelations, or interesting conflicts that arise. If this was made into a movie I would fall asleep in the theater. The puzzles are nonsenical: A walkthrough is really needed since the solutions rarely make sense and it's unclear what needs to be done next. There are no dialogue puzzles which made Monkey Island (and so many other P&C's) fun. The interface is really bad. Often I couldn't control the characters, since they moved in the opposite direction from where I clicked. One of the best parts of these games is trying absurd combinations and hearing witty retorts, but Sam would always say "I can't use that" or similar. Also, I should note that the save/load/options menu has been replaced with the terrible SCUMMVM system, which really detracts from the game. To top it all off, the game is very short. In sum, a really poor adventure. I don't understand why it was rated so highly.

I loved this game as a kid and still love it now, now bring us Day of the Tentacle & the Monkey island games please :)

I love this game; it's sense of humor is unparallelled, the characters are lovable and unique, the graphics are very appealing, and the music is awesome. However, the controls for saving and changing options are terrible. The games controls for talking to people, picking up stuff, all work flawlessly, but I can no longer save or edit options in the main menu anymore. You're significantly better off getting this game somewhere else.

they're gay. ish. in fact in this game they're actually more divorced core but it'll get better