Release Date: cancelled
Sam & Max Freelance Police is a continuation of the adventure game Sam & Max Hit the Road released in 1993. Development of the title was done by LucasArts studio. The creators decided to remain faithful to the original sense of humour and surrealistic visual stylistics of the original, while implementing 3D graphics. Work on the game was suspended in 2004.
The story is known to many different duos (Zwirek and Muchomorek, Starsky and Hutch, Don Quixote and Sancho Pansa, etc.), but for the electronic entertainment market one of the most important is a tandem of independent policemen - a Sam dog dressed in a suit and a crazy white rabbit Max. This remarkable couple first appeared in virtual reality in 1993, thanks to LucasArts and its game Sam & Max Hit the Road. This position was based on a series of comics by Steve Purcell, which began in the penultimate decade of the 20th century.
Sam & Max Freelance Police is nothing more than a sequel to Sam & Max Hit the Road and similarly to this title representing the adventure genre. Developers from George Lucas also implemented simple arcade elements of the kind known from Sam & Max Hit the Road, stunning rats with a wooden hammer. Of course, Freelance Police does not lack a monstrous dose of specific black humor in the form of situational and verbal comedy.
A fundamental change in relation to the original is the transfer of the shares into a fully three-dimensional environment. Both the environment and all characters have been generated by a special "3D engine". Nevertheless, the graphics are still maintained in a slightly surrealistic convention, thus preserving the old character.
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Platforms:
PC Windows
Developer: Lucasfilm Games / LucasArts
Publisher: Lucasfilm Games / LucasArts
Age restrictions: none
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Sam & Max is a humorous adventure series based on the license of the comic book, with a friendly pair of heroes in the title roles. The brand was created by the LucasArts studio, and its development is currently handled by Telltale Games studio.
