‘South Park: The Game’ marries the show with the RPG genre
Credit: Game Informer
Comedy’s Central South Park is making a splash on the January cover of Game Informer with the announcement of an RPG game written and voiced by Matt Stone and Trey Parker in collaboration with Obsidian Entertainment and THQ.
South Park: The Game puts players in the shoes of the new kid in town, giving them the chance to explore and make friends with sometimes vulgar, sometimes zany, and almost always insane townsfolk. Along the way, they’ll have to defend the town against a “wide range of attacks.”
What those attacks could be is unknown at the moment but given that the Game Informer cover features not only a dragon but ManBearPig, Satan, Santa Claus, Jesus and all the kids in fantasy outfits, our interest is “serially” piqued.
Obsidian Entertainment is the same developer that brought us Fallout: New Vegas, Neverwinter Nights 2, Dungeon Siege III, and Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic II so they have the proven RPG chops. Gamers will likely question the quality of the game though given the buggy and glitch-filled releases those titles went through.
Still, whatever condition the game comes out in will be a vast improvement over some of the dreadful South Park titles that were released in the 90s. South Park: Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! for Xbox LIVE broke the string of shoddy cash-in titles with a unique spin on the tower defense genre. Another Xbox LIVE game, South Park: Tenorman’s Revenge is scheduled for Spring 2012.
[via Game Informer]
Scott is one of those “weird” over 30 gamers who’s been around since before the days of the Atari 2600 and has been pounding on controllers and keyboards ever since. Sharing his passion of gaming with his two kids and friends put him on a writing kick that he hasn’t been able to shake off.
