But for somebody that has also played the other two episodes, the meeting with Bosco and Sybil will be a pleasure.
These two characters seem to be important elements in the whole series of the game, without them being impossible to solve the puzzles. But for somebody that already knows this, the puzzles are not so demanding anymore. He will already know that he needs to buy a special tool from Bosco or to make a special service for Sybil in order to help him with informations. Thank God, the developers didn't introduced the Soda Popper kids again, the most annoying characters from the whole series.
Sam & Max are again at work. They have to find the mole infiltrated in Toy's Mafia by the police and find out why he cut any connection with it. This part is the first that has a direct link to the previous one. The link is represented by the doll that has hypnotized Myra Stump.
This doll is fabricated by the Toy's Mafia, in which you have to infiltrate. In the end you will get access to the factory where these toys are done and you will destroy it.
The third part of the series follows the same recipe as the other two. Its main quality is the humour present in plenty of situation. Some of the dialogs are there only to make you smile. Situations like trying all the passwords to the door leading to the mafia's boss, asking for random items at Bosco's store, interrogating Leonard using different formulas of jokes about his mother, and others, are creating hilarious moments using repetitive dialogs. Are you not curious to know who this Leonard is?
If you are, don't ask me. Better play the game and find out. The only think I can say about him is that he is also present in the game Telltale Texas Hold'em. So if you are also a poker fan, you might find him there playing cards.
To be honest I didn't noticed any audio problems, but as I have captured some video scenes from the game, I realized that the game has some volume fluctuations. Anyway, I am a lucky gamer, despite others that were complaining on the forums about poor sound quality. On my system, besides those fluctuations, there was nothing wrong. The only reason causing this problem should be the poor compression of the sounds. But as always, the voice acting is great. Pay attention to Ted.E.Bear voice. Somehow it reminds me of Don Corleone's voice from The Godfather movie.
The tendency of the series is to keep you interested, but for somebody who is more pretentious, the best deal is to wait and buy the whole season. That's because The Mole The Mob and The Meatball brings nothing new and is the shortest episode from all and seems that this is the general tendency of all episodes.
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Gameplay: 72
Very short and repetitive. Only the humour and the characters keeps you play it on.
Graphics: 77
Same as before. Nothing to say about it.
Multiplayer: N/A
Sound: 78
Acting voice at its best. The background music sounds like jazz from early 30's.
Hardware: 75
Some volume fluctuations.