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Synopsis: You play as Sam and Max (Primarily Sam), freelance police that are called in to investigate the freaky and strange laws being in acted by the president of the united states. (mandatory group hugs, national official pudding, etc) As you move past the very hard task of getting into the front door, you’ll see theres more to it. I don’t want ruin the plot, but in the end max is president, and you kill the Lincoln monument with the Washington monument.

Graphics: The graphics aren’t spectacular, but they aren’t supposed to be. They are cartoony enough to stick with script. They are bright, but not blindingly so. On any other type of game, I’d say that the graphics left much to be desired. But the graphics aren’t SUPPOSED to be any better or worse. So the judgment is, pretty good. Smooth and just right for the genre.

Plot: The plot is pretty much what you would expect from something that takes notes from Family Guy, American Dad, and the Simpsons. Put a surrealistic spin on tongue in cheek humor without actually going into adult only territory. It changes from episode to episode, but its all cartoon humor with that dark surrealistic spin.

Control: Controls are about as simple and straight forward as you can get. point and click, all the way. In this episode there aren’t any real, “action” sequences, but its still so easy i could use it.

Learning Curve: Thats always been my beef with adventure games. The fact that some (Seirra online, i’m looking at you) adventure games drop you in a situation and expect that there logic is everyones. Yahtzee’s, of Zero Punctuation, games’ tend to understand the initial stupidity of the player. When i played 5 days a stranger, i found that i could get through the first part easy enough. Thats usually the deal killer for most gamers that want to try out the adventure genre. Its that annoying first puzzle that is the real painful part. After the first step, you have a constant up and down feeling of challenge. Hitting the president in the head with a boxing glove is a given, but giving vodka to the governors is kind of a stretch.

Overall: I’d say its a nice and funny way to find a love for the point and click adventure genre that was thought dead after that last leisure suit larry. The Sam & Max series is a good dip of the toe into the right end of the pool.