Sam & Max Plunge Through Space (lost build of cancelled Xbox adventure sequel game; 2001-2002)

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Status: Lost

Sam & Max Plunge Through Space was a planned sequel to the 1993 video game Sam & Max Hit the Road, announced in 2001. It was to be developed by the Infinite Machine, a small company consisting of former LucasArts employees; however, Infinite Machine went bankrupt in 2002, and the project was cancelled. LucasArts then bought the rights to Sam & Max and attempted to develop its own sequel, Sam & Max: Freelance Police, which was also abandoned later.

Premise and gameplay

In the words of the lead developer Steve Purcell:

"It was actually based on a story I had written years before called Sam & Max Plunge Through Space. Sam & Max have to recover the stolen Statue of Liberty which they find parked in another galaxy and being used as a casino called Green Mama's. Then they are pulled into interplanetary intrigue with an evil despot and a mysterious hidden world where everyone resembles Max. We were breaking it down into an action/exploration/adventure game and I was pleased with where it was going.

It was a lot heavier on "adventure" than "action." It was intended to be more of a hybrid, giving you the story and characters of a point-and-click adventure, but with the pacing of a 3D platformer. You'd have controlled Sam directly, moving around environments about the size of a FPS level, solving item-based puzzles and getting into dialogue exchanges. Enemies would wander the level, so you could always go back and shoot and/or beat them up. (I remember that we spent a good bit of time trying to figure out how to do shooting without over-complicating the targeting interface, before we remembered that it's Sam & Max, and accuracy is kind of irrelevant.) We were hoping to have a platformer without shallow characters or annoying jumping puzzles, and an adventure game without the feeling that nothing happens when you get stuck. The best part of having a pitch go unpublished is that I can say that we solved every problem, and it would've worked perfectly, if only it had gotten made."

Gallery

  • DeSoto remodeled into a spaceship; according to Purcell, every keyboard button was going to have a DeSoto control function (though some of these functions would be ridiculous)

    DeSoto remodeled into a spaceship; according to Purcell, every keyboard button was going to have a DeSoto control function (though some of these functions would be ridiculous)

  • Mena

    Mena

  • Slippy, some king of alien DJ

    Slippy, some king of alien DJ

  • A giant cockroach bouncer at the entrance of Green Mama's

    A giant cockroach bouncer at the entrance of Green Mama's

  • A mole miner enslaved by other moles to extract the yummy nougat from the center of his planet

    A mole miner enslaved by other moles to extract the yummy nougat from the center of his planet

  • Parking Lot Jackal, one of a threatening pack that patrol the enormous multi-level parking structure near Green Mama's

    Parking Lot Jackal, one of a threatening pack that patrol the enormous multi-level parking structure near Green Mama's

  • A city floating in space

    A city floating in space

  • Span'qee, the tyrannical leader of a children's play area underneath Green Mama's (the kids have been waiting for their parents so long that they developed their own civilization)

    Span'qee, the tyrannical leader of a children's play area underneath Green Mama's (the kids have been waiting for their parents so long that they developed their own civilization)

  • SMPTS Duo.jpg
  • SMPTS Battle.jpg

References

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