South Park: The Stick of Truth

When South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker approached developer Obsidian Entertainment 4-years ago to make a South Park role playing game, I doubt they realized how much of an undertaking it would be. There is no way they could have envisioned all those setbacks along the way. Despite the bumps in the road, Stick of Truth has finally arrived, albeit a tad late and perhaps missing out on a huge opportunity with its next gen omission. Not being able to play Stick of Truth on my PS4 or my Xbox One is undoubtedly a let-down and quite likely it is also a disappointment for others who have ...

For fans of both South Park and RPG's this is a must play. For everyone else, I'd recommend it thoroughly.

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“Obsidian Entertainment delivers one of its best-ever efforts in South Park: The Stick of Truth, even if the game doesn't quite stick the landing.”

Obsidian Entertainment together with the creators of South Park have created a one-of-a-kind game. The town of South Park has been transformed into its digital equivalent, and we check how successful the authors were in this endeavor.

As might be expected, South Park: The Stick of Truth is a fantastic game for South Park fans, perhaps less so for everyone else. If you're not a fan, feel free to knock a star off the score, as so much of what I like is down to setting and characters. Mechanically, there are some rough edges, like interacting with the environment or the inefficiency of selling a lot of items at once, and the combat could do with a little tweaking. However, when I mentioned earlier that it plays like an extended episode of the show, that should be a massive point in its favour. Possibly the best tie-in game, an...

The humor is the star of the show, so long as your content with passable gameplay being your only roadblock to the next joke or collectible to reminisce over. Seventeen years in, we probably won’t see a better South Park game ever made.

If you don’t watch South Park that often, you most likely won’t enjoy The Stick of Truth as much as someone who does. The RPG elements are very serviceable but they’re not going to satiate most of the hardcore genre fans out there. It’s a good thing then that the rest of the package is filled with so much care from the show’s creators, that it makes it something truly special.

A side-splitting romp with all the sharp satirical humour we've come to expect from South Park. Strip away its wit and, despite a few flaws, you'll find a satisfyingly deep RPG.

Fans of the show should be going after The Stick of Truth without even thinking twice. Gamers who fancy a diversion from the super-serious RPGs and shooters that fill the shelves at the moment would be well advised to give it a spin, too. Obsidian have done extremely well under intense pressure to create a generally solid game and bring it to market, and should be applauded. As should we, given that the game contains a million and one swear words and we didn’t let our halos so much as slip during the course of this review. Hell yeah!

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It's a testament to The Stick of Truth that my enthusiasm for the game didn't dim in the face of those hiccups. Despite them — and the jokes that occasionally run out of steam — this is an experience that even the most casual fan of South Park is going to get something out of, and one of the truest translations from screen to game I can recall. At the risk of belaboring the metaphor I started with, other developers have painted Cartman's face on a stock car. Obsidian has ripped out the pistons and swapped in the still-beating heart of South Park. Other games treated the world Matt Stone an...