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Sam & Max come out of retirement

You crack me up, li'l buddy.

News by Martin Taylor Contributor

Published on 13 May 2003

We reported on this some time back, but LucasArts has reminded us all that Sam & Max, the intrepid dog and rabbit detective duo, are to make a return next Spring in Sam & Max Freelance Police. The press release says the game is "a whimsical miasma of fur-flying action" and contains "unnerving cross-species jocularity" - how could we keep phraseology like that out of the public eye?

The LucasArts site contains a short trailer and a couple of screenshots that seem to initially indicate that LucasArts haven't brutally demoralised this well-loved license in the same way that they seem keen to apparently wholeheartedly trash Full Throttle's 3D incarnation.

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