![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You're also treated to one of the hands-down best parodies of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" ever.Īnyone expecting a standard mean-spirited deconstruction of the holiday - perhaps musings about the labor conditions of the elves or the physics of Santa's once-a-year journey - has underestimated the talent of the Telltale team or the surreal nature of Sam and Max's world. Along the way they'll do brilliantly hilarious send-ups of Rankin-Bass Christmas specials, Planet Hollywood-style restaurants, the entertainment/shopping experience, celebrity endorsements, Tickle Me Elmo, mixed-message toys and boxing games. What follows is another insane adventure as Sam and Max try to save Christmas. Apparently Santa's been taken over by some nameless entity from beyond space and time mistakenly shipped to him in a slime-covered box from Lower Manitoba, Canada. Nick himself seems to have a vendetta against our boys. When a giant key-driven killer robot obsessed with '80's pop music tries to kill the duo, they set off to wreak vengeance on the one that sent it after them - Santa Claus. This time around the development team has chosen a big, fat target to challenge Sam and Max - Christmas. Now the dog detective and his hyper-violent rabbity-thing sidekick are back in the initial Season Two episode entitled "Ice Station Santa," an excellent start to a whole new season of surreal adventure game hijinks. While they occasionally stumbled, they by and large managed to not only revive two of gaming's classic characters, but also give them a razor wit and satirical insight that make each episode something to look forward to. The developers at Telltale Games who created the new Sam & Max episodic gaming series have been walking that line since November of 2006. Too angry and it's a nasty, preachy diatribe that alienates the audience. Too absurd and all you have is pointless comedy. ![]()
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