Sam & Max Take On The Team Fortress

(Update – those that bought the game through Telltale’s site will get the items too)

Valve and Telltale have always had a pretty good relationship. It makes sense – both companies make a living off of digitally-distributed games, both had a hand in defining the episodic gaming model, and both companies are passionate about Team Fortress 2 (Telltale’s team reportedly did pretty well against Valve, despite the latter having the home advantage).

Well, it turns out that Valve is just as gaga over Sam & Max and Telltale is over Valve’s multiplayer giant. To celebrate the release of The Devil’s Playhouse, the two developers have put together a few new Team Fortress items. Want to get your grubby mitts on these? All that you need to do is purchase the new Sam & Max season through Steam at some point over the next week. Presumably, anybody that has already bought it will get these too.

What do you get for your purchase?

Max’s Severed Head
It’s not often you’re given the gift of a beloved character’s decapitated head by the very studio responsible for that character. Still, we’re not complaining. It’s soft, it wicks away moisture in the heat of battle, it highlights our eyes. It’s got us thinking about all the other game characters we could be wearing around as clothes.

Max’s Pistol
Who wouldn’t want to squeeze off a couple rounds with the murder weapon of choice of a sociopathic cartoon rabbit? Probably quite a lot of people, when you get right down to it. Luckily, those people are all well-adjusted contributors to society with no police records, spotless credit ratings and few unresolvable moral failings. They also probably have no interest in playing TF2, so that means more murder-rabbit gun shooting for the rest of us.

Sam’s Revolver
This might look like an ordinary revolver, until you realize that it helps a talking dog solve crimes. How many crimes has YOUR dog solved lately? And let’s face it, his revolver kind of sucks too. Man, we want to talk about this gun more, but we can’t get over how much your dog sucks.

So, if you like adventure games and already play Team Fortress, this is a pretty damn cool incentive to pick up the new Sam & Max season. Decide quickly, though – the promotion ends on April 23rd.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go back to daydreaming about a Telltale-designed Team Fortress adventure game.

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