Southpark: Stick of Truth
By Dhruv Chopra
You have got to love southpark for the ludicrous, absurd and outrageous sense of humor it provides, the hysterical and moronic characters you come to love and the crappy-on-purpose animations you just can’t get enough of. Now put all of this into a game. A role playing game, to be more specific, and you end up with an inexplicably entertaining adventure.
Believe it or not, Southpark takes itself very seriously when it comes to providing you with a witty satire of role play mechanics. As the game starts, you’ll get to create your own character, customize him/her and choose one from four separate classes to play as. Namely, the mage, the thief, the fighter and the Jew (I’m not even kidding). Sadly, there’s not much difference between the character classes other than a few insignificant changes in attributes and a few special abilities. So there’s nothing stopping a warrior from choosing magic enhancing items and becoming a better wizard than most. Apart from all that, what you have is a wide variety of gameplay options to choose from. You could either play as one of Cartman’s humans or Kyle’s elves in the imbecilely imaginative story mode set in this peaceful Colorado mountain town.
In The Stick of Truth, you are almost literally playing an excellent 14 hour episode of southpark. With so many missions and side missions spread all across the painstakingly detailed town brimmed with references from the show which fans will definitely appreciate. The gameplay is pretty general, go there, do this, come back. But what makes it fun is that you’re doing all of this southpark style. You’ll come across enemies spread out through the town very often, and this is one point which I really appreciated about the game, you DO NOT have to fight someone you do not wish to fight. The turn-based Fighting in the Stick of Truth is fun, hilarious and never feels repetitive (well, that actually depends on your playing style). Apart from the whimsy, there is quite some tactical depth so you don’t have to worry about things getting a little too easy. From standard physical attacks to magical spells to summons, numerous ways to put down the enemy kid. And all of these are sure to make you giggle if not spit all your water on your computer screen and laugh (seriously though, don’t do that).
Believe it or not, Southpark takes itself very seriously when it comes to providing you with a witty satire of role play mechanics. As the game starts, you’ll get to create your own character, customize him/her and choose one from four separate classes to play as. Namely, the mage, the thief, the fighter and the Jew (I’m not even kidding). Sadly, there’s not much difference between the character classes other than a few insignificant changes in attributes and a few special abilities. So there’s nothing stopping a warrior from choosing magic enhancing items and becoming a better wizard than most. Apart from all that, what you have is a wide variety of gameplay options to choose from. You could either play as one of Cartman’s humans or Kyle’s elves in the imbecilely imaginative story mode set in this peaceful Colorado mountain town.
In The Stick of Truth, you are almost literally playing an excellent 14 hour episode of southpark. With so many missions and side missions spread all across the painstakingly detailed town brimmed with references from the show which fans will definitely appreciate. The gameplay is pretty general, go there, do this, come back. But what makes it fun is that you’re doing all of this southpark style. You’ll come across enemies spread out through the town very often, and this is one point which I really appreciated about the game, you DO NOT have to fight someone you do not wish to fight. The turn-based Fighting in the Stick of Truth is fun, hilarious and never feels repetitive (well, that actually depends on your playing style). Apart from the whimsy, there is quite some tactical depth so you don’t have to worry about things getting a little too easy. From standard physical attacks to magical spells to summons, numerous ways to put down the enemy kid. And all of these are sure to make you giggle if not spit all your water on your computer screen and laugh (seriously though, don’t do that).
I don’t care if you’re a fan of the series or not, if you’d love yourself a ridiculously fun time, I recommend you go get The Stick of Truth right now. So if you’re not a fan of the series already, you’ll become one.
System Requirements:
Minimum:
CPU: Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2180 @ 2.0 GHz or AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+ @ 2.0 GHz or better
RAM: 2 GB
OS: Windows XP SP3, Vista (SP2), Windows 7 (SP1), Windows 8
Video Card: 512 MB Direct X 9.0 compliant with shader model 3.0 or higher (NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT / AMD Radeon HD 2900)
Sound Card: Yes
Free Disk Space: 6 GB
Recommended:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 @ 2.0 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ @ 2.3 GHz or better
RAM: 4 GB
OS: Windows XP SP3, Vista (SP2), Windows 7 (SP1), Windows 8
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT or AMD Radeon HD 4870 (512MB VRAM with
Shader Model 4.0) or better
Sound Card: Yes
Free Disk Space: 6 GB
System Requirements:
Minimum:
CPU: Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2180 @ 2.0 GHz or AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+ @ 2.0 GHz or better
RAM: 2 GB
OS: Windows XP SP3, Vista (SP2), Windows 7 (SP1), Windows 8
Video Card: 512 MB Direct X 9.0 compliant with shader model 3.0 or higher (NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT / AMD Radeon HD 2900)
Sound Card: Yes
Free Disk Space: 6 GB
Recommended:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 @ 2.0 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ @ 2.3 GHz or better
RAM: 4 GB
OS: Windows XP SP3, Vista (SP2), Windows 7 (SP1), Windows 8
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT or AMD Radeon HD 4870 (512MB VRAM with
Shader Model 4.0) or better
Sound Card: Yes
Free Disk Space: 6 GB