The game functions as one of the most generic first person shooters ever created coming across as a poor copy of this Doom and Quake dominated era. The weapons may be covered in wacky dressing but they are much the same as any other mid-90s first person shooter.

These range from a standard snowball replacing the pistol equivalent all the way up to a cow launcher which acts as a rocket launcher. These have been unleashed upon South Park in waves to be vanquished with a variety of wacky weapons collected upon the way. To it’s cause the comet has mobilised (somehow) a variety of mutant turkeys, mutant townspeople, aliens and mad robots. In fairness paranormal ideas were a feature of early episodes of the show meaning the writing isn’t as lacklustre as it sounds. South Park is under threat from a large, ominous, apparently evil comet and it is up to the boys to try and stop them.

The plot whilst flimsy isn’t actually one of the problems. (These subtitles make everything confusing don’t they?)Ībomination might sound like pretty harsh way to refer to this game but if any of you were to play this I’m sure you’d end up agreeing with me. I spent this week not playing South Park: The Stick of Truth because of the abomination that is the South Park video game. Regardless, I shall plough onwards as this is a tale that needs to be told to warn others of the risk that shoddy games may pose to your future enjoyment. At this point you’ve probably worked out that it’s not Titanfall or Dark Souls 2 so maybe it’s not as topical as I was claiming either. This is a shame as it is a licensed game based on a beloved cartoon which regular readers will know is basically my crack. The next game I will have a look at does happen to be the reason why I’ve not played the week’s big release yet. It would be even harder to produced any kind of informed fair and balanced review on a game that I haven’t actually played yet (although if I run out of ideas I may have to try). Well topical at least as it can be tricky to produce something I call a retrospective on a game that is less than a week old. Those lessons I learnt last week must have sunk in because this week I am finally up to date and totally topical.

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