South Park: The Stick of Truth review: A true South Park game for true South Park fans

March 04, 2014

Over the course of South Park: The Stick of Truth's 12-plus hour running time it throws probably a thousand (or more) jokes at you. Big jokes. Small jokes. Short jokes. Sight gags. Elaborate jokes. Dumb jokes. Offensive jokes. Political satires. Sociological commentaries. Video game commentaries. Commentary commentaries.In other words, everything you'd expect from a South Park game. And therein lies both its biggest strength—and biggest problem.The South Park half The game is an open-world RPG, with the entire town of South Park—and part of Canada—for you to explore. You control the New Kid, a.k.a. Douchebag, on a quest to make friends. This quest sucks you into a war between Cartman's human and Kyle's drow elf kingdoms. They're fighting for the titular Stick of Truth—your average, garden-variety stick, except this one has the power to control the universe, ostensibly.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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