Game link:http://southpark.ubi.com/stickoftruth/en-gb/home/index.aspx
Steam link:http://store.steampowered.com/app/213670/
So, if I said I was pleasantly surprised with the much delayed South Park: The Stick of Truth, it would be a massive understatement.In the game you are the new kid in town. You move in next door to Butters and are immediately drawn into the battle between the Grand High Wizard’s human forces and the Drow Elf King’s dark elf army.
You bounce around the town, fast travelling with the help of Timmy, searching houses, garages, and businesses. Completing story and side missions. And fighting giant rats, aliens, zombies, and dire bears.
The battle mechanic involves you and one little buddy, in the beginning it’s Butters but eventually you can choose from six characters, facing off against single or multiple enemies.When it’s your turn you can take a health or buff potion then summon help, use a special or magical attack, or resort to a simple ranged or melee attack. It’s standard stuff, that is thankfully kept fresh by how imaginative, and disgusting, the attacks are.
But throughout all the inventory management, special skill upgrading, vomit, blood, and excrement, the game stays completely faithful to the television show.This means that, like the show, the game will say and show ANYTHING
If Parker and Stone think it’s funny to throw poo at something (metaphorically or not), or even funnier to get a video game character to do the throwing for them, then they will.Which leads nicely, or rather unpleasantly, into the game’s rating. The Stick of Truth is an R16 title, and deservedly so.The language is full on, there are no television bleeps here.
But, beyond that, if you take the time to play through the game you’ll see things that you’ve never seen in a video game before (even though you’ll spend the rest of the year praying you could un-see them).As mentioned already there’s poo throwing. There’s a lot of farting, epic tea-bagging, a touch of paedophilia, and dildo fighting - if you’re into that kind of thing.Also, if you’ve been paying attention to recent gaming news, you’ll know there’s, worst of all, alien anal probing! Even if it has been censored.
You can max out your character at level 15 well within eight hours.
Also, I found that the sound fell out of sync with the pictures, sometimes so badly it skipped dialogue to catch up.
On top of this there’s no multiplayer, nothing to do online, and only four classes to choose from. Unfortunately, you can’t switch classes within the story so if you want to see all their abilities you’ll have to start four new games.
There are also the usual complaints associated with turn based RPGs. If you’re not into the whole RPG thing the battles get a bit repetitive.Although you can’t call it grinding because the game isn’t long enough for it to be an issue.
Despite the game’s limitations, developers’ Obsidian Entertainment has, with a lot of input from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, produced a very enjoyable game. It looks fantastic, bold and bright, just like the television show.The voice acting is perfect. You meet and interact with more than a hundred South Park characters. And did I mention it’s laugh out loud funny?
It’s impossible to give examples without spoiling the jokes.
Usually in a game review I’d mention a few awesome high level abilities, describe the odd set piece, and quote a few one-liners to give an idea of what you can expect from the game.
But, the jokes are such a big part of the game’s fun I’d hate to give anything away.So in the end,i will give this game a score 8 out of 10.
IGNORE THIS...... EMILLLL
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