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Per IGN's Xbox news


Sam and Max Cancelled

LucasArts makes us cry.

March 03, 2004 - Sad news for adventure fans today: LucasArts has decided to stop production of the upcoming adventure title Sam and Max: Freelance Police.

Mike Nelson, acting general manager and VP of finance and operations at LucasArts explains it this way:
"After careful evaluation of current market place realities and underlying economic considerations, we've decided that this was not the appropriate time to launch a graphic adventure on the PC."
No jobs will be eliminated as a result of this decision. We'll have more information as soon as it becomes available.
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Post by Animalor »

Probably a smart move.. If this game didn't redefine the genre (Like Baldur's Gate did for RPG's) then it would've been a losing proposition.

Also, isn't Lucasarts working on Full Throttle 2 right now?
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Full throttle was also canceled
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Post by Animalor »

I guess Lucas wasn't content with killing the Star Wars franchise huh...
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god dammit. I loved Sam and Max. LucasArts is really pissing me off.

I enjoyed every LucasArts graphic adventure game they made, you know, back before they were whoring every possible Star Wars game they could possibly come up with. I still have them all on 5 1/4, heh.
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Post by dibit_eq »

Figured that since this thread revolved around the death of a sequel to Sam and Max, I'd toss this update here:

http://www.telltalegames.com/samandmax

Telltale Games has taken over the Sam and Max and are releasing it in what appears to be the current "episode" trend from the Half-Life/Sin people.

I'm hoping they dont mess up.

edit: this might actually be old, news but i didn't see anyone discussing it and search came up with nothing so far.
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