Sam & Max: Season Two to hit the stores in 2009

Written by Jack Allin — December 3, 2008 at 11:16

For those who have held off on the downloadable episodes of Sam & Max: Season Two in favour of a potential store-bought version down the line, today's news brings you one step closer to that reality, as Telltale and Atari have announced a partnership to bring the second season to retail. And if you were holding out in hopes of seeing the Freelance Police again on Wii, that wish will come true as well, as the game bundle will be released for both PC and Wii next year.

The five-episode Season Two, which originally released for PC between November 2007 and April 2008, pitched Steve Purcell's beloved canine shamus and hyperkinetic rabbity thing back into a wide array of new and unproved shenanigans. From Santa's workshop to Easter Island to that hopelessly bureaucratic place where bad lagomorphs go after death, the comic crimefighting duo even hop back and forth through time as it's once again up to them to save the world as we know it... and maybe cause a little mayhem of their own along the way.

While series developer Telltale Games offers its own PC disc package, the deal with Atari will expand the series onto Nintendo's console and make the bundled games available on both platforms to worldwide retailers for the first time. The full season will be fully localized in French and German, with Spanish and Italian subtitles available.

There is no firm release date as yet for either version of Season Two, with just a general "2009" target specified for now.