Sam & Max S1 coming to Xbox Live

By Ellie Gibson Published 12 June, 2009

Out next week and yours for 1600 MSP.

The first season of Telltale's episodic adventure series Sam & Max is to be released via Xbox Live next week.

Sam & Max Save the World will cost 1600 Microsoft Points (GBP 13.60 / EUR 19.20). For that you'll get the six episodes first published on PC in 2006 and 2007, complete with improved gameplay and HD visuals.

You can find reviews of all the episodes elsewhere on Eurogamer, or just buy them for USD 19.95 (GBP 12 / EUR 14) from the Telltale store.

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Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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Comments (19) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Ninja_Tino #1 3 years ago

    Fair price. Well worth the purchase!

  • CordableTuna #2 3 years ago

    "complete with improved gameplay and HD visuals. "

    Improved how? And how HD can it get? The originals run at any resolution you want.

  • Darren #3 3 years ago

    Six episodes for 1600 MPs... bargain! :)

    If that game is anywhere near as polished, funny and enjoyable as Wallace & Gromit then I'll be picking it up straight away.

  • Whizzo #4 3 years ago

    The originals run at any resolution you want.

    PC season 1 didn't support widescreen resolutions, which was rather annoying.

  • Toothball #5 3 years ago

    Curious. Might be a good prelude to some Monkey Island.

  • Darren #6 3 years ago

    These old style point 'n' click adventure games are a favourite genre of mine so it's great to see them coming to the consoles: Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Sam & Max, Tales of Monkey Island... I'm a happy bunny! Also we need now is a port of Zak McKraken & the Alien Mindbenders and Grim Fandango and I'll be doing bunny hops! :)

  • Malek86 #7 3 years ago

    I guess I'll download the demo, if anything to see how they handled the control system.

  • Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #8 3 years ago

    That's a pretty good price for all six eps.

    Got them all on PC, mind - still need to get round to them, playing through the first S&M with the missus (oo-er) as a refresher.

  • Fodder #9 3 years ago

    I almost hope they've just left them with a cursor that you move around with the joypad. Horrible as that is, it's at least better than the awful Wallace & Gromit control scheme. I'm not even sure why W&G works as badly as it does. The console versions of stuff like Syberia and Still Life had a similar scheme but that worked fine (and they were originally designed for a cursor, so you'd expect them not to work as well as a game designed from the start to work with a pad).

  • JeroenZM #10 3 years ago

    Gah, I feel the retailed Wii version was a ripoff compared to this price.

  • _LarZen_ #11 3 years ago

    Kudos to Xbox Live for getting so many good games for the service! Hope this comes to PSN....

  • Petulant_Radish #12 3 years ago

    Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender please!

  • brooza #13 3 years ago

    Depending on controls, I shall buy this, never got round to getting the PC version

  • crispyduckman #14 3 years ago

    Would be better if they released this in episodic fashion as well the full season. I mean, isn't that supposed to be the point? 300 MSP per episode would have worked for me. Maybe even 400 MSP. Having said that, I expect I'll get the lot anyway though.

  • EvilBob_leeds #15 3 years ago

    I've got to say, as an enormous fan of the originals (and pretty much all of Lucasarts point and click adventures) I didn't enjoy this on the PC much. Bit bland, bit empty and not nearly as funny as the original.

  • rhubarbandcustard #16 3 years ago

    I have played the free episode (S1 Ep4?) that was available on Steam.

    It was not funny. That remains my only real memory of it. Painfully unfunny in fact.

  • GWH #17 3 years ago

    Will they have fixed the bug in the Wii version that clips off the last second or so of most of the dialogue? Kind of kills the jokes.

  • Turambar #18 3 years ago

    @rhubarbandcustard

    Glad it wasn't just me. I was starting to think there was something wrong.
    Edited by 1 at 13/06/09 @ 12:18

  • metallicorphan #19 3 years ago

    who's fucking idea was it to put the reviews for each console in date order?...fucking sack them,they haven't got a fucking clue