
Oh My God! They Killed The Fun!
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As one of the most wildly popular shows during the N64 era, it was only a matter of time until the South Park boys ended up in their very own video game. As you play you can earn codes to unlock other prominent South Park citizens to choose from as you battle it out with an array of decidedly bizarre weapons. Available for your arsenal are, gas emitting Terrence & Philip dolls, a chicken egg launcher, a cow launcher, toilet plungers, homemade yellow snowballs, etc..
Two control schemes are offered: "To-Rock" (Turok style with c buttons for movement & analog stick looking) or "Brown-eye" (the reverse scheme patterned after Goldeneye 007). I recommend "To-Rock" as the Goldeneye style seems to be less precise (and neither one is especially accurate).
Those of you with an expansion pak can try out the "Hi-Rez" modes, but I found controls to be seriously hampered by lower frame-rates in these modes. Instead you may prefer to switch back to Low-Rez mode which provides smoother character movement & control.
Multi-player mode divides the screen up and lets you take on up to 3 other people in battle. The arenas are nothing spectacular, but at least provide some variation in that there are 17 of them to choose from. Liberal fog effects try to obscure the ol' N64's limited draw distance, but pop-up still abounds. It can be pretty fun in a "party" atmosphere to beat up on your friends with cow launchers and that weird "warp-o-ray" gun, but ultimately the action lacks long-term appeal. Story mode mixes things up a bit by throwing hordes of baddies at you on your mission to save the town, but it too gets repetitive before long.
In my opinion the N64's library was pretty hit or miss. Generally there were fantastic titles like Super Mario 64 that represented the best of the era & and awful titles like Superman 64 that never should have seen the light of day. South Park 64 is an unusual title in that it fits somewhere in the middle. It's by no means a "must-have", but is certainly very playable (generally in small doses). If you're a South Park fanatic who happens to own an N64, you might get some grins with this title. Otherwise this will probably just end up sitting at the end of your shelf keeping the other games from falling over.
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