South Park on N64 is a wild ride if you're a diehard fan of the early seasons. It's a crude 3D shooter filled with the show's trademark humor – expect snowballs, killer turkeys, and lots of swearing. The controls are janky, objectives are often unclear, and it hasn't aged well graphically, but man, it's got that nostalgic charm if you lived and breathed South Park back in the day.
Amateurish and boring, and that's putting it nicely. I have to assume that this was cranked out for some impossible deadline because if it wasn't everyone involved should face jailtime. Even conceptually, it's like, oh hey South Park is a big deal, what kind of game should we make ... and the answer is an FPS??? On the TUROK 2 engine? What the fuck?!
The more I'm thinking about this the madder I'm getting. So I'm gonna stop now. It sucks ass! Don't ever play it.
The more I'm thinking about this the madder I'm getting. So I'm gonna stop now. It sucks ass! Don't ever play it.
This review contains spoilers
This is an awful tie in game. The Story is that multiple things at a time attack the town, because of a comet, and the kids have to stop it, it's not impossible to make a good game around that, but there isn't any more depth then that, so it sucks, and there is no way that the kids wouldn't disbelieve Chef at the beginning. The Characters work well, they feel the same as the show, and the lines from them can be funny too. The Graphics are not good, especially for being based on a show that is easy to design around. The Gameplay has you collect your friends even though they should follow you already, then go around attacking the stages enemy over and over again, and your friends don't even help you, you absorb them basically, direction sucks with arrows pointing you in the right places, dodgeballs are pointless early in the game when enemies die with 1 normal hit, and it takes longer to throw the dodgeball anyway, enemies can spawn randomly, and in front of you, you have to recollect your friends every round, there was a mistake I noticed when we are told that the clones only come out at night, right after they attacked you during the day, later toy projectiles damage more than a doll should, and the only enemies I had any fun fighting were the toy Aero planes, even the menu is bland. The Music has the right tone, but it is repeated over and over and it never lets up. South Park PS1 games creator now require a probe up their "bums" for what I had sat through.
excerpt from heather's fps museum:
i played this as much as goldeneye. i didn't watch south park or anything, i just liked walking around the town and looking at the pretty cartoon graphics. ultimately inoffensive; i was surprised to find out how reviled it is by this site.
i played this as much as goldeneye. i didn't watch south park or anything, i just liked walking around the town and looking at the pretty cartoon graphics. ultimately inoffensive; i was surprised to find out how reviled it is by this site.
The allure of the game's amusing premise and genre choice sadly wears thin quickly given the game's repetitive and monotonous level design, flawed structure, and difficulty curve that's all over the place.
Matt Stone and Trey Parker didn't get to provide much creative input on this one and Comedy Central and Acclaim kinda forced Iguana to get it out the door in time for Christmas 1998. Stone and Parker weren't really pleased with the results, but the series has gone on to bigger and better things with video games in recent years luckily, at-least with The Stick of Truth.
Matt Stone and Trey Parker didn't get to provide much creative input on this one and Comedy Central and Acclaim kinda forced Iguana to get it out the door in time for Christmas 1998. Stone and Parker weren't really pleased with the results, but the series has gone on to bigger and better things with video games in recent years luckily, at-least with The Stick of Truth.
WHEN YOU GET THAT FEELING YOU GOTTA SING! When you get that feeling… when you get that feeling I GOTTA SING!
The controls are so garbage.
The story of the game is basically the first season of South Park ( or the first few episodes ).
It has a multiplayer ffa mode that is fun for a few matches but gets very repetitive. The alien gun is OP combined with the cow launcher.
The controls are so garbage.
The story of the game is basically the first season of South Park ( or the first few episodes ).
It has a multiplayer ffa mode that is fun for a few matches but gets very repetitive. The alien gun is OP combined with the cow launcher.