
User reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive (12,294 reviews)
Release Date: Mar 3, 2014


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About This Game




Key Features

  • The Definitive South Park Experience
  • An Epic Quest To Become... Cool
  • Friends With Benefits
    Recruit classic South Park characters to your cause.
  • Intense Combat
  • South Park Customization

System Requirements

    • Memory: 2 GB GB RAM
    • DirectX: Version 9.0c
    • Hard Drive: 6 GB available space
    • Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card with latest drivers
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • DirectX: Version 9.0c
    • Hard Drive: 6 GB available space
    • Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card with latest drivers
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573 of 633 people (91%) found this review helpful
20.1 hrs on record
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432 of 520 people (83%) found this review helpful
14.2 hrs on record
Posted: November 29
Do you like South Park?
You will like this game.

Do you not like South Park?
You will not like this game.
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128 of 149 people (86%) found this review helpful
19.5 hrs on record
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406 of 542 people (75%) found this review helpful
3.4 hrs on record
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13.7 hrs on record
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148 of 197 people (75%) found this review helpful
20.9 hrs on record
Posted: October 29
Buy this, M'kay?
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84 of 104 people (81%) found this review helpful
34.5 hrs on record
Posted: December 6
"You must promise me...
That you will never fart...
On another man's balls."

         – E. Cartman, C.E. 2014
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62 of 72 people (86%) found this review helpful
16.6 hrs on record
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18.1 hrs on record
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33 of 44 people (75%) found this review helpful
12.2 hrs on record
Posted: October 24
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24 of 33 people (73%) found this review helpful
13.5 hrs on record
Posted: July 19
Being a huge fan of the South Park TV show I was hugely excited to hear when there was a game being released. Sadly I was always put off by the full price of £40. I waited until this years Summer sale and picked it up for £20 and was not disappointed.

The game takes the style of a turn based combat title, much like Final Fantasy, but it is a much more mellowed down version. I was able to breeze through most combat situations without much attention being paid. The parts of the game which got me scratching my head were trying to work out how to proceed through each puzzle, often at times I had to refer to a walkthrough as I was starting to get a brain hemorrhage.

The graphics and sound throughout the game are exactly the same as in the TV series, so if you enjoy that, you will certainly feel at home here. The ever so crass South Park esk jokes and one liners are here for the world to marvel at.

Story wise, again, very much a South Park episode, you will almost feel like you are watching the show while playing. The length of the main story is about ten hours long, some may disagree but I think that is a little short for a game at full price of £40, but there are plenty of side missions and achievements to go hunting for if that is your thing.

If you are lucky enough to find this game on sale for anything under £20. I would certainly recommend you give it a try if you have ever enjoyed the TV show, however you may not fully appreciate it. Certainly is not worth full price. But for the price I have paid, I still really enjoyed my playthrough.
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17 of 22 people (77%) found this review helpful
22.0 hrs on record
Posted: November 29
You're pretty much paying to play an actual episode of South Park. If you enjoy SouthPark like myself, and have received so much laughter for free over the years, then this is a no brainer. Matt and Trey blessed this game thereby creating the most authentic and true to the series game ever created off of a television or movie series. I payed full price for this on release day and never regretted a moment of it. Sure there were moments when I felt the game was laggin on, I didn't like this or that, and I thought they could have done more but that doesn't matter.

Best rpg... no.
Revolutionized... nothing.
Lacking replayability... sure.

Does any of this matter if you are a South Park fan... absolutely not. Why? It's all trumped by what they have done which was to create South Park inside of a video game. If you do not enjoy this game there is only one explanation... you don't like South Park... because this is South Park with you controlling the characters.
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35 of 55 people (64%) found this review helpful
33.9 hrs on record
Posted: November 2
Simply amazing.

If you love South Park you will fall in love with this game. It is well written well directed and just South Park funny !
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30 of 46 people (65%) found this review helpful
30.7 hrs on record
Posted: October 16
Loved this game just wish there was a DLC for it to add more gameplay
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14 of 18 people (78%) found this review helpful
14.0 hrs on record
Posted: October 12
If you liked/like South Park this is worth playing, it really is just like playing an episode of the tv show.

The comedy/South Park flavor is good, a lot of it taken straight from the show.

The RPG parts are a bit light for my tastes, very easy, and stats/leveling up/equipment didn't seem to matter very much.

Combat was very uneven, it felt hard at the start, but once you get the hang of it, it's very easy, not very strategic.

This game has a lot more in common with Costume Quest than Dragon Age

I enjoyed it very much and I'd probably play a sequel.
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15 of 20 people (75%) found this review helpful
16.9 hrs on record
Posted: June 29
Oh man! This! How many problems has this game been involved in? After THQ went under (so sad...loved them...), the future for South Park was unclear in the video game industry and we secretly wanted a GOOD South Park game...

But then Ubisoft bought the license and the game for some weird reason got delayed YET AGAIN, but then it was actually coming and leaving development hell! It's here and we all know games from development hell never receive good criticism across the board (Duke Nukem Forever, Colonial Marines, can't think of anything else atm so, sorry).

South Park, however...shows that development hell does not mean 100% certain game franchise death. It's brilliant! (almost, actually...)

Well, the sound design + writing are the things that sell it the most. I mean, it's South Park! We all wanted to see how far Trey and Matt would go with the game! The show has always been an excellent and funny (though disgusting most of the times, lol) piece of social criticism, that surprisingly has gotten under me and opened my eyes on some stuff...but never without some laughs...
The game succeeds at that with the great writing, the excellent voice writing and the overall feel of the game. It feels like a 15 hour long South Park episode, and a good one at that!
First of all! It's an RPG, so is there character creation? Yes. Is it deep? No. Could it be deeper? Oh hell yes!
You pick a race, face and hair. That's it... No initial atributes or such... you start off as a new kid in the lovely and quirky town of South Park. You have a face, hair, glasses or not, and finally, a shirt and pants + shoes. The first 30 minutes are linear, because they will get you to the KKK club (because why not?) where you meet the humans guarding the Stick of Truth (which is a stick...) and protect it from the elves who want it and with it, control the universe...

The humans and elves and this overall story is a GIGANTIC larp/dress-up play... and it work on setting the vibe. At the KKK at first, you will put your name, and you are sent on an assignment to recover the Stick, because it got stolen (don't worry, these ain't spoilers, just the basic premise: basically, the first 30 minutes of the game) during an early game fight.

In the fight, you will be introduced to the wonderful combat system: it's turn based! Alas Paper Mario (which I never played) and it reminds me a lot of Super Mario: SuperStar Saga (which I played to death! You should play it for the GameBoy Advance, it's an excellent Mario game: Open World RPG with tactical turn-based combat, amazing story and combat and exploration and main and side quests and stuff... Buy it! Pliszz!)
The combat will give you this impression that it is deep with these buffs, de-buffs, huge amounts of consumables and quirky weird weapons...

But, it's far from deep and has 1 major flaw which I will adress later. The game is deep at first. But once you get into like the 3rd or 4th or even 5th hour of the game (if you really explore everything, which I did), you will gain abilities and passives... these will overpower you so f*cking much! You have no idea! At the middles of the game I got one where if I killed someone or dealt a long-term damage (like bleeding or other stackable nerfs to the enemy), I would regain MORE PP (Power Points, which you consume to use your special attacks) than the PP that you actually SPENT ON THE ABILITY! I could just spam abilities every single turn without worrying about the using consumables, and trust me, 70% of consumables I didn't even touch! They just stacked there in the inventory (you can carry everything you want, there is no such thing as overencumbering like in Fallout or Skyrim which is good imo for this game in particular).
The flaw I mentioned above: It seems like the QA team never actually got into this, (it's something that happens rarely, but it can totally screw you over in the rare times it happens!) but, I got a very few number of times this:

-1 enemy left, he starts a riposte stance (which you can't melee, because you will be the one to take damage, not him).
-I got stunned, couldn't do shit...
-Side character: Butters! (Melee focused!). I had spent a consumable so I couldn't use a revival or another consumable. I had no PP to do a special attack or anything...
So! I attacked, and he riposted, I took damage, and then everything went back to normal...

What's wrong here?

Yes, NO END TURN BUTTON! This made me damage my character due to no more options on what to do! This doesn't matter much, but imagine the same situation, but you are dead (not stunned) and Butters had 1 HP...

You would lose... great!

It's just not well thought out, you see?

Anyways, dont think I dislike the combat... I actually love it! It's fun enough to make me want to keep on going and see what weapons and specials and new enemies I will face (enemy variety is HUGE btw)...

With combat aside... graphics look exactly like the show (which is great), and the game runs on a 30 FPS lock which is FINE! Because with the graphical style of the show, it has to run at 30 FPS. This is probably the only forgivable 30 FPS locked PC game in history, so there you go...
Sound design is solid (this next sentence, I'm going to repeat myself, but the voice acting and story deserve double praise, so... there you go), voice acting is amazing, possibly (possibly!) best of the year so far. Writing is excellent, it's South Park so, it's funny. The story is solid, the twists and turns it takes are cool and make you want to keep going.
The open world is great, it's the first time we get to see the actual map layout of the South Park, which is super cool. Every place has a story or quest of it's own (there is one where a priest tells you to "Find Jesus", another, you will have to kill a mouse with a ♥♥♥♥♥ attached to his back in a mutated process (it's a thing from the show)).
It's great and rewarding to explore, every quest is fun and unique to do, not just a "collect 10 of this"!
The game's length deserves some discussing though: It took me 15 hours to beat it, with exploration, side quest solving and other activities that can be done. It's a good value for me, especially since I get bored of RPG's at about 10 hours (unless it's Fallout or something really exceptional). But for 40€? Heh... not really. I'm writing this review during the summer sale, and I remember it was 27 euros on a daily deal, (which is what? like 35-40 dollars, around that, I think...) which then is worth it completely. Anything around that 25 euro/35 dollar price tag is worth it; though it's sad there is NO New game +. There should be New Game + is games like this! Always!

No multiplayer as well, which is good. Screw Multiplayer, we don't need that stuff! What we want is good writing, awesome story, tons, tons and tons and TONS of references to the TV show, good, fluid and fun combat, great and fun world to explore and just overall: we want a good f*cking time!

And they gave us ALL of that, and the game is mostly perfect, there isn't much to complain, at all.

My pointless and stupidly abstract score for this game is a 9/10... get it under 30 euros or 40 dollars and you should be good with your purchase.

Never fart of someone's balls...
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10 of 11 people (91%) found this review helpful
85.8 hrs on record
Posted: July 2
It'd be difficult to explain exactly why this game is so great without major spoilers, so I won't take that approach. Instead, I'll say some of the same things everyone else already has. It's like actually playing a season of South Park with your custom character, and the combat employs action commands ala the various Super Mario RPG titles and Shadow Hearts.

While some of the humor falls flat, and there's a certain thing repeated a few times early on, the vast majority succeeds in prompting laughter, which is more than I can say for most media which claims to be comedic nowadays. At the same time, it's brutally self-aware, not only of it's status as an RPG, but as a South Park videogame. The voicework and animation is spot on with the show, and, honestly, if you didn't know it was a game, you'd think it WAS an episode or movie.

Speaking of which, there's references to the movie along with the entirety of the show's 17+ year run, and yes, even music, which Matt & Trey are surprisingly talented at. The game's soundtrack takes on an absurdly epic style, with several of the main themes being very similar to that of "real" fantasy titles, like Skyrim, and with good reason. It also has a strong Earthbound vibe to it, because of the whole "kids using toys to inflict terrible damage to hostile and weird enemies" along the way.

It's not perfect; unless you turn the difficulty all the way up, you'll likely breeze through 90% of the battles, and it's very easy to hit the low level cap. There's also a number of game-breaking attack combos you can learn with every class, and debuffs are so powerful that they're practically mandatory. But it's all worth it. Despite these problems, I've spent nearly 100 hours in the game, as I went through multiple playthroughs, and didn't regret a minute of it. Well, except for those minutes with the repeated thing I won't mention early on, that is.

Oh, and no major spoilers, but I HAVE to share a minor one, which should tell you just what kind of game this is. The hardest boss, by far? Not the last one, or even the next-to-the-last one, both of whom can be tricky. But no.. it's Al Gore.

I'm super cereal you guys.
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14 of 19 people (74%) found this review helpful
28.0 hrs on record
Posted: October 6
I've played all the South Park games, and honestly I wasn't going to give this a try. But I said What The Heck and bought it for 40$. This game is really good. The story is fantastic, the humor is great, the gameplay is amazing, and I just love it all.

First, the story. Talks about the Evles VS Humans. Cartman is leader of the Humans, Kyle is the leader of the Elves. They are in a constant war for the "Stick of Truth" because "For whoever controls the stick, controls the universe" Keep in mind that it is not real violence, and they're actually hitting each other with sticks, it's all imagination. It is made to look like real violence, but it really isn't.

Second, the humor. I love the script of this game. Cartman has probably the best lines. It's just amazing how they got the humor so perfect. South Park fans will love this part.

Third, Gameplay. It's a normal RPG with a few tweaks. First of all, enemies aren't random, and you can avoid most of them, except bosses. One of my favorite parts is that your PP (Power Points) and HP (Health Points) regain by themselves when you finish the battle. That way you don't waste your items. There are certain abilities you can have depending on your class, Jew, Fighter, Mage, or Theif. Each of these abilities are unique in their own way. For example, Theif has a backstab, and Fighter has a move where you kick someone in the balls. You can also get Fart Magic, which is honestly the funniest battle mechanic ever. You unlock the abilities the more you level up, and can level up each ability up to a certain level (4 or 5 I believe). There's also tons of sidequests. This is probably one of my favorite RPG's ever.

Fourth, Customization. There are tons of customization options. Througout the game you can get wigs, facial features, and even clothes you can wear the make you stronger. Sadly you cannot be a girl, but you can make yourself look like one. You can modify your weapons and clothes to have certain colors or abilities. Things called "Perks" are unlocked by having friends in South Park. The more friends, the more perks. These perks make you stronger or weaker. You can modify your weapons and clothes by adding little patches that have certain abilities, like 20% more money, or Gross Damage, or even Bleeding. Tons of option here, you wont get upset by that.

Things I don't like about the game: First, it's really freaking short. It's not worth the 60$ it used to be, so they dropped it to 40. I reccomend waiting for a sale at like, 35 or even 30. Now the Saving feature in this game is absolute bullcrap. When you save it might save a little bit before where you actually were, making you have to do a battle or 2 again. Another thing I don't like is how the difficulty suddenly raises halfway through the game. Then again you can customize the difficulty to your taste at any time.

This game really is good, but it does have some faults. Also, you can fart on people, highly recommended if you're into this humor and gametype. I'd say wait till it's on sale though, not worth the 40$ in my opinion.
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