10 TERRIBLE Video Games (You Should Play Anyway)

South Park, at its height of popularity, was a juggernaut for merchandising and tie-ins. As such, South Park needed to have a game out, and it needed to have it out fast.

Using the Turok engine, of all things, South Park’s first video game outing was a straight-forward first person shooter that contained much of the series’ character and potty mouthed sensibility.

The reality of the situation is that since it was so rushed out into public hands, South Park is ugly and limited in its scope. Levels are monotonous, as is replaying the whole thing if you die due to a lack of checkpoints, and the game has a serious lack of music and voiceover variety.

On top of this, the ghastly short draw-distance to try and hide it's blemishes made it unbelievably boring to look at.

All that said, the South Park game is as inventive as the show and its sense of humour definitely offers a few chuckles. Whilst the campaign is forgettable, South Park did ship with multiplayer which allows players to concentrate most on what the game did best which was in its variety of silly weaponry; from toilet plunger firearms to the Cow Launcher.

There is definitely still fun to be had in selecting your favourite foul-mouthed kid and embarrassing your friends by pelting them with yellow snowballs. Ah, youth.