Windows

South Park Rally

If You don’t really give a toss about South Park and thought you would get a driving/go-carting game stay the hell away from this, as a game it just isn’t very good, plain and simple. Also if your easily offended by anything more extreme then Mary Poppins this isn’t the game for you. Otherwise buy everything South Park related, if Eric Cartman was real he would be a god.

Wer die Serie heiß und innig liebt, wird wahrscheinlich kurze Zeit seinen Spaß mit Kenny, Kyle und Co. haben. Langfristig gesehen bietet jedoch das einfach gestrickte Rennspiel selbst dem größten South-Park-Fan zu wenig.

Nachdem Kyle, Stan, Kenny und Cartman im South Park-Ego-Shooter bereits gegen Truthähne kämpfen und im Ratespiel Chef's Luv Shack dämliche Fragen beantworten mussten, schickt Acclaim das Quintett frecher GÖren jetzt auf die Rennstrecke. Rechtzeitig zum Kinofilm dürfen Fans der frechen Fernsehserie jetzt durch das immerwintrige Provinzkaff South Park brezeln - und zwar in Gestalt einer der witzigen Figuren. Zur Auswahl stehen nicht nur Greinkönig Eric Cartman und der niedliche Kapuzenheini Kenny, sondern auch Kantinenkoch Chef, der schizophrene Grundschullehrer Garrison sowie all die anderen bekloppten South-Park-Bewohner.

Auf den ersten Blick wirkt South Park Rally ganz spaßig. Schnell aber merkt man, daß das Spiel viel zu schwer ist. Ein Fahrfehler, und das Rennen ist gelaufen. Erschwert wird das Ganze durch Checkpoints, die nicht über die ganze Streckenbreite gehen und die man deshalb häufiger verpaßt. Wenn Sie damit leben können, dürfen Sie sich mit Cartman auf die Piste wagen.

South Park Rally has a lot of things going for it: decent graphics, humorous yet annoying gameplay, and an incredibly accurate gameworld. However it also lack a lot of replayability, the gameplay in and of itself can be quite frustrating at points, and the racing physics are horrible beyond compare. Bottom Line? Buy it if you're a South Park fan, as you'll get a kick out of seeing Stan drive around in a Ferrari. Otherwise, leave it to occupy shelf space.

Allez on va dire qu’on s’amuse le temps d’une course, voire le temps de faire le tour de tous les bonus. Après, on a peine à revenir et retrouver ces décors – pourtant jolis – mais foncièrement lassants. Le plus grave problème de South Park Rally, c’est la jouabilité, avec des contrôles imprécis et des comportements souvent curieux. Enfin, quand vous avez joué une heure, entendu 300 pets, 150 vomissements, et pu admirer des culs volants autour de vous pendant un quart d’heure, vous êtes content de couper et de revenir à la civilisation.

While my feelings about South Park Rally started off on a positive note, they quickly went downhill after a couple of hours. The lure of South Park characters racing around the TV show locations died very quickly mainly because of the lack of innovation in course design, so-so gameplay and lack of a save game feature. Only truly diehard fans will enjoy this game, the average South Park viewer won't be addicted for too long, and if you don't watch the TV show don't even bother. This game totally sucks ass Mmmmkay?

Not very fun, really. Hard-core South Park fans should just save their money and buy Chef's Luv Shack instead, mmmkay?

South Park Rally could have been much better than it turned out. Allowing people to actually play the cars and tracks they bought without forcing them to get good at the game first would have been a start - especially in a game where the difficulty factor is too high to begin with. A save game mechanism would also have been nice; the game plays WAY too much like some console game (PC games should NEVER have the same limitations as consoles). In the end, South Park theme or not, the game has some serious deficiencies that keep the game from living up to its potential. Bottom Line: Nice graphics - on par with those in the South Park 3D shooter. You start out with only a few cars and one track - the majority of others have to be "unlocked". Opponents rarely make mistakes and have no distinct personalities. No save game mechanism.

The brilliant South Park movie shows that there is still some creativity left in Matt Stone's and Trey Parker's porn-obsessed brains. After three abortive South Park games that have failed to translate any of the anarchic fun of the show to digital form, however, all you can really do is blame Canada.

Will they ever stop making these terrible South Park games? Acclaim has done it once again with the latest installment in their South Park series. Every time, it seems like they have taken the essential elements of the South Park show, thrown them into a meat grinder, scooped up random sound bytes and crude jokes and then fitted them into whatever game they happen to be making. So far, we've seen a wretched shooter, a lame attempt at a quiz game, and now a Mario-Kart rip-off. This one seems to be thought out a bit more thoroughly than the rest, yet it plays like the worst.

Wat mij betreft moeten de makers van South Park Rally zich zwaar gaan schamen want dit is echt een klotegame. Hopelijk maakt nooit meer iemand zo'n lullige racetitel.