South Park: The Stick of Truth
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| Developer(s) | Obsidian Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Ubisoft |
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| Designer(s) | Matt MacLean |
| Programmer(s) | Dan Spitzley |
| Artist(s) | Brian Menze |
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| Composer(s) | Jamie Dunlap |
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| Genre(s) | Role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Metacritic | PC: 85/100 PS3: 85/100 X360: 82/100 |
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| CVG | 9/10 |
| Destructoid | 8/10 |
| Edge | 8/10 |
| EGM | 8.5/10 |
| GameSpot | 7/10 |
| GameZone | 8/10 |
| Giant Bomb |  |
| IGN | 9/10 |
| PSU | 8/10 |
South Park: The Stick of Truth is a 2014 role-playing video game developed by Obsidian Entertainment in collaboration with South Park Digital Studios, and published by Ubisoft. Based on the American adult animated television series South Park, The Stick of Truth follows The New Kid, who has moved to the eponymous town and becomes involved in an epic role-play fantasy war involving humans, wizards, and elves, who are fighting for control of the all-powerful Stick of Truth. Their game quickly escalates out of control, bringing them into conflict with aliens, Nazi zombies, and gnomes, threatening the entire town with destruction.
Development began in 2009 after South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone approached Obsidian about making a role-playing game designed to look exactly like the television series. Parker and Stone were involved throughout the game's production: they wrote its script, consulted on the design, and as in the television program they voiced many of the characters. The Stick of Truth's production was turbulent; its release date was postponed several times from its initial date in March 2013 to its eventual release in March 2014. Following the bankruptcy of the original publisher, THQ, the rights to the game were acquired by Ubisoft in early 2013. The Stick of Struth was first released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 on March 4, 2014.
The Stick of Truth was subject to censorship in some regions because of its content, which includes abortions and Nazi imagery; Parker and Stone replaced the scenes with detailed explanations of what occurs in each scene. The game was released to positive reviews, which praised the comedic script, visual style, and faithfulness to the source material. It received criticism for a lack of challenging combat and technical issues that slowed or impeded progress. A sequel, South Park: The Fractured but Whole, is scheduled for release in 2017, alongside a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One release of The Stick of Truth.
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