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Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse - Episode 3: They Stole Max's Brain!

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Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse - Episode 3: They Stole Max's Brain!

Jun 22, 2010

Episode of Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse

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Episode 3 of an epic 5 game saga. In Episode 3, freelance shamus Sam gets steamin' mad, when someone snatches his little buddy's noodle, gunning for control of its inner powers. Now Sam's going all noir to get it back! Was it the giant gorilla? The two-bit rat? Or the fishy dame that runs the greasy-spoon? The caper is getting more and more twisty, and Sam's rolling up his sleeves, smackin' heads and throwin’ slugs to crack the case. * Episode 1: The Penal Zone * Episode 2: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak * Episode 3: They Stole Max's Brain! * … More
Episode 3 of an epic 5 game saga. In Episode 3, freelance shamus Sam gets steamin' mad, when someone snatches his little buddy's noodle, gunning for control of its inner powers. Now Sam's going all noir to get it back! Was it the giant gorilla? The two-bit rat? Or the fishy dame that runs the greasy-spoon? The caper is getting more and more twisty, and Sam's rolling up his sleeves, smackin' heads and throwin’ slugs to crack the case. * Episode 1: The Penal Zone * Episode 2: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak * Episode 3: They Stole Max's Brain! * Episode 4: Beyond the Alley of the Dolls * Episode 5: The City That Dares Not Sleep - Finale Less
Developers
Telltale Games
Publishers
Telltale Games
Franchises
Sam & Max
Platforms
Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 3, iOS
Genres
Adventure, Point-and-click
Themes
Action, Comedy, Mystery, Science fiction
Steam
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Release Dates
Jun 22, 2010 (Worldwide)
Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS
Jun 22, 2010 (North_America)
PlayStation 3
Jun 23, 2010 (Europe)
PlayStation 3
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The level of quality in this series looks eerily like a sine wave, and it seems to correlate almost 1:1 with the strength of the subject they choose to parody. Season one was the most grounded, and was able to use that for a more deadpan tone that season two largely lacked. Season three is even more zany, to the point where the overarching story-treated more like a joke in season one and two-is played completely straight.

It's just not as funny as it was initially, even if the second episode of season 3 did some interesting things with its design and was able to milk some comedy out of riffing on old pulp stories.

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