Telltale Games - Chariots of the Dogs is here, complete with free demo!

Chariots of the Dogs is here, complete with free demo!

Posted by emily

March 14, 2008

The wait is over! Sam & Max 204: Chariots of the Dogs has been released. Finally, you'll find out what happened to Bosco... and maybe even save him from the nefarious clutches of T-H-E-M.

This is the episode where the disparate story threads of Season Two start to weave together, so if you've been following the season, you're in for a real treat. Plus we're headed for a mind-blowing season finale in April. Yes, I said mind-blowing.

But wait, let's not get ahead of ourselves! So where can you get this gem of a game?

To check out the demo, grab it here.
To buy the episode, visit the store.
If you're already a Season Two customer, go to your account.

Still on the fence?
If yesterday's five star review at Adventure Gamers didn't already convince you, these equally glowing reviews* will probably put you over the top:

IGN, 8.3/10 - "Chariots of the Dogs is definitely my favorite episode this season, and one of the strongest episodes of the entire series."
GameSpy, 4.5/5 - "...the episode's script is the funniest since Season One's Abe Lincoln Must Die! and includes some of the most enjoyable puzzles to date."
Strategy Informer, 8.3/10 - "The biggest pro is the way Chariots of the Dogs connects themes, characters, storylines and gags from both Seasons one and two."
Adventure Classic Gaming, 4/5 - "It is easy to see that Telltale Games has been focusing on delivering a great gaming experience by casting the episode in a completely different direction."
Cheat Code Central, 4.7/5 - "If the uproarious antics in Sam & Max Episode 204: Chariots of the Dogs are any indication, we can expect the season finale to be a major comedic blowout of grand proportion."
Gamervision, 9/10 - "It appears that Telltale has found its stride and hopefully keeps everything moving well towards an inane and cataclysmic end."
Aeropause, 4.5/5 - "All in all, Sam and Max Episode 4: Chariots of the Dogs is a great adventure gaming experience that shows off what can be done when a dedicated team puts a lot of quality into their releases, and keeps on schedule."
Destructoid, 10/10 - "I already knew the Sam and Max episodic series was one of the best things to ever happen to adventure gaming; until Chariot of the Dogs, I didn't know it was one of the best things to happen to gaming, period. Buy the whole goddamn series. Now."

Well? You heard the man! Buy it!

*WARNING! Some of these reviews contain spoilers. Telltale assumes no responsibility for the accidental spoiling of jokes or plot points initiated by clicking these links. You can trust us on the scores, though -- we didn't make them up!

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33 Comments

	Awesome! :)
	Comment by dg10050	March 14, 2008, 9:45 am

	yay it's out in Telltale yayyyy
	Comment by splash1	March 14, 2008, 9:46 am

	Okay, what's up here? Every single time in the past your blog icon for the game is just a big version of the icon you find elsewhere, but here we have Bosco while everywhere else is a different icon.
	Comment by Maratanos	March 14, 2008, 10:01 am

	Woo! Time to save Bosco! Or not! : D
	Comment by Dice	March 14, 2008, 10:31 am

	Every single time in the past your blog icon for the game is just a big version of the icon you find elsewhere, but here we have Bosco while everywhere else is a different icon. Refresh the page. :P I posted the wrong icon this morning. It's fixed now.
	Comment by Emily	March 14, 2008, 10:34 am

	Aww, but I liked the Bosco one better... :(
	Comment by Maratanos	March 14, 2008, 10:44 am

	yeah me to :(
	Comment by splash1	March 14, 2008, 10:50 am

	For some reason the download's horribly slow under Firefox, won't even get started properly. Luckily, Opera seems to have no problem with it.
	Comment by Harald B	March 14, 2008, 11:34 am

	So, when do we find out the name of episode 5?
	Comment by Lemmingsmeister	March 14, 2008, 12:11 pm

	downloading now..great reviews!
	Comment by Hero1	March 14, 2008, 12:29 pm

	I just had to stop playing to tell you guys I found the banang gag. Pure class.
	Comment by neon	March 14, 2008, 12:31 pm

	I just had to stop playing to tell you guys I found the banang gag. Thanks for telling us. We were wondering when someone would find that.
	Comment by Emily	March 14, 2008, 12:32 pm

	i found that the day i played it, almost died laughing :D
	Comment by splash1	March 14, 2008, 12:48 pm

	downloading it right now...
	Comment by Bruno83	March 14, 2008, 1:01 pm

	Did something go wrong with the front page update? I saw an "work in progress" page this morning, but nothing happened. ;)
	Comment by Erwin	March 14, 2008, 1:08 pm

	YAY
	Comment by some nerdy guy	March 14, 2008, 1:21 pm

	Yeah, the banang joke had me silent for a minute.... and then minutes of laughter... while being on the floor! :D
	Comment by Mysterysheep	March 14, 2008, 1:27 pm

	So does this mean we know 205's icon or was that a variation of 204's ?
	Comment by Mysterysheep	March 14, 2008, 1:29 pm

	It was a 204 icon that didn't make the cut.
	Comment by Emily	March 14, 2008, 1:58 pm

	The Banang gag was absolutely ace :)
	Comment by Giglio	March 14, 2008, 1:59 pm

	And for fellow Brazilian readers, we've posted our review yesterday as well: http://finalboss.uol.com.br/fb3/ctu.asp?cid=47022 :)
	Comment by Giglio	March 14, 2008, 2:03 pm

	Just played it and ... ... WOW !
	Comment by barchetta	March 14, 2008, 2:48 pm

	Great job Telltale, I had to stop and laugh for literally five minutes after the intro, and then the banang! Quality stuff.
	Comment by Panda90	March 14, 2008, 3:50 pm

	Best. Episode. This season. :P
	Comment by Guybrush Threepwood	March 14, 2008, 4:00 pm

	Gamespy also loved the game: it's on their frontpage
	Comment by Kroms	March 14, 2008, 4:12 pm

	What Guybrush said. And the Banang! If I had stitches they would have burst! =D
	Comment by tobar	March 14, 2008, 5:37 pm

	great episode! this game just keeps getting better and better!!!
	Comment by Bruno83	March 14, 2008, 6:06 pm

	Damn you all, now I need closure.
	Comment by Avel	March 14, 2008, 7:24 pm

	The ink ribbon!
	Comment by Tommy	March 15, 2008, 11:01 am

	BANANG! I literally couldn't stop laughing for the next few minutes after finding that gag :p Great episode!
	Comment by Hyperkinetic_Martian	March 15, 2008, 12:30 pm

	I only clicked the Banang a couple of times not finishing the gag, so I had to go back and see it through. The episode was absolutely fantastic. I couldn't pause while I was playing it, and so I missed a few of the basic human needs (you know, the eating, the sleeping, and such other wastes of time) for one day. Telltale's magic number seems to be 4. It was the best episode last season, and this season again. I can hardly wait for the fourth episode of season 3! But I'll settle for episode five for now.
	Comment by BancoLavadero	March 16, 2008, 9:34 am

	I still can't believe that Bosco is a descendant of president Kennedy...or president Nixon?
	Comment by zozenka	March 16, 2008, 1:25 pm

	I am starting to notice a pattern. 104 was the best episode in season 1 and 204 is the best episode in season 2. Episode 4 for life!
	Comment by some nerdy guy	March 16, 2008, 1:47 pm

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