Regardless of being on TV for practically 30 years, with 28 seasons and over 330 episodes thus far, there have been shockingly few video video games based mostly on the hit animated tv collection, South Park. That could possibly be right down to the truth that video video games take years to make and the common South Park episode solely takes a number of days, which means the standard topical popular culture references that gas the present would possibly really feel positively historic by the point a online game hits cabinets. Regardless, a dozen South Park video games have managed to buck that development and really get launched for the reason that present debuted in 1997. A few of them nice and a few of them..not so nice. Listed below are the perfect, worst, and weirdest South Park video games.
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The primary South Park online game ever made was an formidable one, even when a first-person snowball combating simulator didn’t precisely make a ton of sense for the model. However since native multiplayer FPS video games like Goldeneye had been all the craze on the N64 in 1998, it’s no shock that South Park obtained an identical remedy, even when the tip end result was a lot sillier. Developer Iguana Leisure (identified largely for the Turok recreation collection on the time) and writer Acclaim Leisure got here collectively to create a strong FPS recreation full of South Park references, together with a recreation of the present’s theme track, a number of playable characters, and Kenny dying brutally earlier than the title display even seems. It’s not a terrific recreation by any stretch, and seeing the historically flat and hand drawn South Park characters as low poly 3D fashions was an odd match, but it surely had sufficient South Park fan service to make it value trying out on the time.
South Park: Chef’s Luv Shack
A 12 months later South Park: Chef’s Luv Shack arrived, this time with a graphical fashion a lot more true to the present’s 2D look. Developed as soon as once more by Acclaim, it moved away from first individual fight, as a substitute offering a recreation show-style minigame and trivia assortment for Kyle, Stan, Kenny, and Cartman to compete in. Sadly, it’s unattainable to play this recreation with out different human gamers, so if you happen to had been an solely youngster (or only a loser like Butters), you had been just about out of luck. Moreover, the restricted trivia query set led to loads of repetition, which means the joke obtained outdated fairly quick, and followers had been as soon as once more left holding a licensed online game letdown.
South Park Rally
The third and closing Acclaim Leisure South Park online game as soon as once more delivered an expertise that critics disliked and diehard followers merely tolerated, this time trying to tackle the favored kart racing style with the South Park license slapped on. South Park Rally is a crude and ugly kart racer with unreliable controls and lackluster observe design, however hey, you may drive Large Homosexual Al’s automobile and throw Mr. Hanky turds at different gamers, so no less than there’s that.
Regardless of the present’s immense reputation, South Park video video games ended up taking a seven 12 months hiatus after this capped off Acclaim’s trilogy of video games, which most likely happy South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, seeing as they as soon as mentioned throughout a DVD commentary for an episode of the present: “Oh God, the South Park video games had been so dangerous. We had been so bummed out on these, as a result of we love enjoying video video games.”
South Park 10: The Sport
In 2007, South Park celebrated its tenth season on the air lower than spectacularly by releasing a naked bones, Europe unique cell recreation that referenced key moments from the present. South Park 10: The Sport is a brief and really no-frills platformer that appears like a fan made flash recreation. Other than accumulating hidden Tacky Poofs in every degree, there’s not a lot to do or see when you roll credit in underneath an hour. Nonetheless, it was good to see someone using the license once more, even when the ultimate product was completely common. However you might play as a cow practically twenty years earlier than Mario Kart World allow you to, so hey, there’s that.
South Park: Let’s Go Tower Protection Play!
Two years later, Xbox Dwell Arcade obtained its personal South Park tower protection recreation, pitting its primary characters towards waves of ginger children, hippies, cows, and extra as they tried to avoid wasting their idyllic and peculiar little city. The 2D artwork path, official voices and sound results, and iconic humor elevated a fairly bathroom customary tower protection outing into an really strong South Park online game.
South Park Mega Millionaire
As soon as once more revisiting the sport present setting for causes which might be unclear, 2009’s South Park Mega Millionaire – sizzling off the heels of 2008’s hit movie, Slumdog Millionaire – was a cell recreation that determined it was a good suggestion to strap curler skates to the South Park children and put them in precarious platforming conditions in entrance of a stay studio viewers. It’s not a terrific recreation by any stretch, but it surely does have the most effective South Park online game jokes of all time, as the children survive a Japanese recreation present in hopes to win a ten thousand yen prize; unbeknownst to them, ten thousand yen equates to roughly sixty three {dollars}.
South Park: Tenorman’s Revenge
2012’s Tenorman’s Revenge is one other Xbox unique South Park recreation, this time revisiting Scott Tenorman, a personality from the notorious South Park episode the place Cartman makes Scott eat chili constructed from the our bodies of Scott’s personal useless dad and mom. Properly, Scott Tenorman has returned to get revenge in online game type on this transient and mediocre platforming recreation which is simply briefly improved by the occasional boss battle and its central plot machine, which focuses on the children having to get well a stolen Xbox 360 laborious drive together with all of their treasured recreation save recordsdata.
South Park: The Stick of Reality
As you may most likely inform by now, the primary 16 years of South Park video games left loads to be desired. The whole lot modified in 2014 with South Park: The Stick of Reality, a genuinely nice RPG that, in contrast to earlier South Park video games, was made with direct enter from the present’s creators. Identified for his or her earlier work on franchises like Fallout and Star Wars, developer Obsidian Leisure constructed a implausible and hilarious 2.5D function enjoying recreation that regarded and felt nearly precisely like an episode of the present. It’s not simply the most effective licensed video games ever made, it is also a implausible turn-based RPG in its personal proper, and undoubtedly the one recreation within the style the place you need to shrink down your character sufficiently small to discover a human anus so you may disarm a bomb. Take that, Last Fantasy.
South Park: Pinball
Zen Studios, creators of the wonderful digital pinball franchise Zen Pinball, created a set of South Park pinball tables that completely understood the project, mixing rock strong gameplay and hilarious present references to wonderful outcomes. There’s even a devoted Butters pinball desk, in addition to Mr. Hanky impressed brown pinballs, in case you ever wished to knock a bunch of pellet-shaped turds round to compete for prime scores.
South Park: The Fractured However Complete
2017’s sequel to The Stick of Reality was The Fractured However Complete, which was most likely/presumably legally as shut as they may get to placing the phrase “butthole” in a online game title. Fractured However Complete is one other implausible and humorous RPG, this time satirizing the superhero film style extra than simply function enjoying video games usually, and as soon as once more trying precisely like an episode of the present. This time across the battle system takes place on a grid full with environmental hazards like LEGO bricks that may injure characters when stepped on, and options ranges just like the Peppermint Hippo, a strip membership full with a lapdance minigame sequence, simply in case you had been fearful that South Park would lose its edge in a Ubisoft printed online game.
South Park: Cellphone Destroyer
That very same 12 months, South Park: Cellphone Destroyer was – you guessed it – a cell recreation, which simply so occurs to be the one South Park cell recreation you may nonetheless obtain and play in your cellphone at present. Cellphone Destroyer is a free-to-play card battling recreation that does a surprisingly good job of enjoying to the strengths of its platform. You’ll obtain plausible calls and texts from Cartman, and you’ll unlock a number of endings based mostly on how a lot actual cash gamers spend on premium microtransactions, even shaming you and telling you to hunt assist with habit if you happen to spend an excessive amount of. Extra cell video games ought to try this. The world can be a greater place.
South Park: Snow Day!
The most recent (however hopefully not the final) South Park online game is South Park: Snow Day, a sloppy motion journey roguelike that concurrently makes an attempt to finish the story established in Stick of Reality and Fractured However Complete, whereas additionally returning to the unique South Park recreation’s snowball combating roots. It’s a disgrace that Snow Day doesn’t even come near being enjoyable or humorous, with IGN’s personal evaluation calling it “totally unenjoyable,” and “uncharacteristicly toothless and unfunny.”
It’s been a bizarre, windy highway for South Park video games, however with the current Fortnite collaboration and megadeal renewal of the present, one thing tells me we’re simply getting began and that hopefully, extra South Park video games are on the way in which.
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