While I believe that torn-off bunny parts are gifts reserved for more romantic occasions, Valveâs just handing out these severed rabbit heads as one of three bonuses for players buying the new Sam and Max game on Steam this week.
Telltale Games has just launched The Penal Zone, the first episode of Sam and Max: The Devilâs Playhouse, and Valve wants to make sure as many Team Fortress 2 players as possible pick up a copy of the game on Steam. See, the Team Fortress 2 team are big fans of Telltale, mainly because theyâre scared of them.
It turns out that not only do we play other gamesâother game developers play ours. Last year Telltale Gamesâ TF2 Team went head to head with us in the TF2 Studio Rumble tournament, in the process dominating our own Adrian Finol so hard that he made up an excuse about âpicking up my kids somewhereâ and went and sat in his car for an hour. After the match, we all agreed that one of these days we should do something cool together, because theyâre big fans of TF2, and weâre big fans of getting advance copies of Sam & Max episodes.
So in abject fear and celebration of Telltaleâs latest release, Valve is giving away three Sam and Max items to Team Fortress 2 players who snag the new Sam and Max during its first week of release.
Items include Maxâs Severed Head, Maxâs Pistol, and Samâs Revolver. You want official descriptions? You probably want a dog that sucks less as well.
Maxâs Severed Head
* Itâs not often youâre given the gift of a beloved characterâs decapitated head by the very studio responsible for that character. Still, weâre not complaining. Itâs soft, it wicks away moisture in the heat of battle, it highlights our eyes. Itâs got us thinking about all the other game characters we could be wearing around as clothes.
Maxâs Pistol
* Who wouldnât 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.
Samâs 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 letâs face it, his revolver kind of sucks too. Man, we want to talk about this gun more, but we canât get over how much your dog sucks.
The guns are nice enough, I suppose, but I can only imagine how amazing my Team Fortress 2 performance would be with Maxâs severed head sitting on top of mine.
So what are you waiting for? Head over to Steam and retrieve your severed head!
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