Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space

Join the Freelance Police for a second season of adventure, crime fighting, and chaos. Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space starts with a giant robot attack and never lets up, taking our valiant crime fighters on a…

71 10 April 2008 Free to play

Adventure Point-and-click Comedy Mystery Science fiction

Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space is an adventure developed by Telltale Games, released 10 April 2008 on Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360. It is free to play.

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What Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space is

Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space is an adventure game developed by Telltale Games and released in 2008. It is available on Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

A year after their previous adventure, the Freelance Police duo Sam, a level-headed dog detective, and Max, his manic rabbit-like partner, find their quiet routine shattered when their pet goldfish Mr. Spatula inexplicably turns evil, only to be destroyed by a giant robot dispatched by Santa Claus. Determined to get answers, the pair travel to the North Pole, where they find Santa acting violently and suspect something sinister has taken hold of him. So begins a sprawling series of bizarre cases that will hurl the two detectives beyond the bounds of time and space, from the frozen North to a remote island and beyond. Confronting demons, prophecies, and stranger threats still, Sam and Max…

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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy, mystery and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Sam & Max series

Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space is the third of 12 entries we hold in the Sam & Max series. It arrived 9 months after Sam & Max: Save the World. The next entry was Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse in 2010. Its critic score of 71 is 8 points below the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Poker Night at the Inventory at 96.

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How it was received

Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space holds a critic score of 71 out of 100. That places it above 41% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1.5GHz processor and 32MB 3D-accelerated video card.

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What it launched against

Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space launched on 10 April 2008, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto IV, Valkyria Chronicles, Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition and Mario Kart Wii. All of them reviewed better. It was a Xbox One launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto IV, Valkyria Chronicles, Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition, Mario Kart Wii.

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