Sam & Max Episode 3

"This episode lasted me just around two hours and was completed in one sitting. I found the challenges to be slightly easier than in the previous game and only really struggled with one particular sequence at the Casino."

"Now that we have reached halfway through Season One, it is somewhat worrisome to see that there is very little new content from episode to episode. If you have not played the previous episodes, you may not notice that there are only 3 new scenes in this game. Counting the 4 old scenes (excluding the driving scene) that are recycled, it means that less than 50% of the content in Episode 3 is actually new."

"The jokes are funny, the animation is vibrant, the characters are sufficiently wacky, and there is definitely no time for boredom."

"The game may only take you an hour to complete, but you'll be laughing and having a good time while penetrating the mob."

"Presumably Telltale hopes to build an audience first, and get a whole new batch of players familiar with the conventions of point and clickers before really laying on the puzzles too thick. Hopefully we can start to see a return of the more involved, challenging style seen throughout the '90s. Part of the 'problem', if you like, is the general lack of locations and objects on your person - inevitably it's not long before you join the dots. But then again, the very reason there are so few items and locations is that Telltale is keeping the size of its episodes small, so it's a bit of a chicken and egg scenario. But before this review spirals off into a discussion about episodic limitations, it's important to stress that Sam & Max's latest adventures are immensely enjoyable chunks of entertainment. So few games display such effortless charm, and even fewer are rammed with as much warm humour. On that basis alone, the chance to sit back and be thoroughly entertained for three hours for $8.95 should more than make up for any other reservations you might have about this pioneering experiment."