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South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play! (abbreviated as SPLGTDP) is a 2009 video game based on the American animated television series South Park
, released on the Xbox Live Arcade
service for the Xbox 360
video game console. The game was developed by Doublesix
, in collaboration with South Park Digital Studios and Xbox Live Productions
. Let's Go Tower Defense Play is a tower defense
game, with the added element of being a fast-paced action game
as well. Thus, players do not only build towers to eliminate destructive forces, but they also have to control multiple characters in order to successfully protect the town of South Park. South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play! is the first South Park video game released after three early titles released between 1998 and 2000. The game costs 800 Microsoft Points
.
runs over to Stan's
house to warn him that 'horrible beings' are attacking South Park. The two are able to defend the household from an army of Ginger Kids
and Cows
before picking up Kyle
and running to their school. Once again, they manage to protect the area, but Cartman receives a phone call from Kenny
, who is under attack. After helping Kenny to fight off another horde of enemies, the boys deduce that the one responsible for the mayhem can only be an evil supervillain: Professor Chaos
.
The boys reach Butters' house and confront Chaos, but he claims that his only evil plan was 'to replace all the healthy mineral water in the pharmacy with boring old regular water'. During a battle with another group of enemies, one of Butters' testicles is shattered, so the boys take him to Hell's Pass Hospital and protect it while he is healed. Jimmy runs in to tell the boys to head to Stark's Pond, where they help Jimbo and Ned to stop another group of enemies from destroying the town. Craig directs them to the lair of the 6th Graders
, led by Scott Tenorman
, who have been recruited by the sinister evil that looms over the town.
After defeating Scott and the 6th Graders, Clyde tells the gang to help Mr. Lu Kim to defend the Great Wall of South Park from an army of Mongolians
. After a long battle, the boys and Lu Kim are victorious, but only before being redirected once again, this time to the South Park Docks, by Tweek.
The boys defend the Docks from a group of enemies led by General Disarray. After doing so, Pip attempts to reveal the villain's identity to the boys, but, typically, they reject him before he is able to finish his sentence. The boys head up high into the mountains above South Park to meet Randy, who tells them that they are about to be attacked. They are able to stop ManBearPig
and a mass of Demons
from taking over the geology building, before Timmy comes to meet them and they are directed one final time to Downtown South Park. Randy confirms that they must head Downtown to stop the villain, and warns the boys that 'he has always been waiting' for them.
The boys stop a huge army of assorted enemies from destroying the town hall before a voice announces 'Game Over' and the game world collapses. After the boys are pulled out into a world beyond the Universe, the villain is revealed to be the Japanese Announcer (from the episode "Chinpokomon
"), who has been manipulating South Park and using the boys as pawns. The Announcer then attacks South Park and attempts to storm the town hall himself, but the boys are able to defeat him. Without an ultimate villain controlling South Park, the evil forces disappear and everything returns to normal.
, three video games based on the show have been released by Acclaim Entertainment
: South Park
(1998), South Park: Chef's Luv Shack
(1999), and South Park Rally
(2000). South Park creators Trey Parker
and Matt Stone
had little to do with the development of these early titles, and have publicly criticized Acclaim and the quality of the games. Directors and producers of South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play! also criticized the previous games as being "disappointing", and for the 3D titles not having the look and feel of the simplistic, "crude and sloppy" cutout animation
-based style of South Park. Work on South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play! started after forming a small group called South Park Digital Studios in late 2007, whose aim was to work on projects related to South Park, except for the TV show itself. Creative Director Brion Chris said that when starting to develop the game, the team's "biggest hurdle to overcome was the bad taste the early South Park video games left in our collective mouths." Parker and Stone were involved in the creation of SPLGTDP from the beginning.
South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play! was developed in collaboration with three studios. The majority of the development on the game was done by UK studio Doublesix
, while Microsoft Game Studios also had artists and programmers working on the game, and provided additional work on the project, including improvements based on Usability Research. South Park Digital Studios brought their expertise of working on the show for 13 seasons, and were in charge of the script, content, and quality control. The team constantly reviewed several aspect of the game, including every graphical asset created for it outside the South Park Studios. South Park Digital Studios also helped in setting the style of and creating the different towers available in the game, which are designed to have the appearance of having been put together by the kids, from various materials lying around.
Most of the game's art assets were provided by South Park Digital Studios. New cutscene
s were created, in a style that is both true to the show's look, and to the Anime
-inspired look of the game. The dialogue in the game features both archive recordings from the show's past seasons, as well as new lines recorded by the original voice talent of the show; mainly creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. New original music was composed and produced by South Park composer Jamie Dunlap.
As South Park is often controversial in both its subject matter
and language use, certain decisions were considered about both the content featured in the game, and its title. While most content was left in the game unaltered, including many short clips from the episodes of the show, some cuts were made specifically for the Japanese
Microsoft team, for the game to be available for release in Japan. The title for the game went through several iterations. The original title for the game was South Park: Suck My Balls, but was done away after considering how to censor its title with asterisks on Microsoft's Xbox Live Marketplace
service. The next idea was to name the game Snowballin, alluding to the snowball
-fighting nature of the game, while also referring to the sexual practice
. Another title considered for the game was the pseudo-Japanese sounding Baru Baru Suki Suki. After all of these were refused as unacceptable titles for the game, it was decided to name it South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play!, which fit in with "the Japanese animation
-style feel" of the game.The occasional usage of incorrect English phrasing in Japanese popular culture
, along with the phrase "let's go", were parodied in a song in the Anime-centric South Park episode "Good Times with Weapons
". Other problematic issues involved the names of the game's achievements
, which are all references to the series. Achievements are publicly visible outside of the game, and there are restrictions on the names and images that can be used in them. Rejected achievement included the drug-related phrase "Chasing the Dragon
""Chasing the dragon" refers to the elusive pursuit of the ultimate high in the usage of some particular drug. A gag in the South Park episode "Guitar Queer-O
" showed an addictive video game called Heroin Hero, in which the character does nothing but inject himself with heroin while literally chasing a dragon that cannot be caught, only chased. The final version of South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play! does include an achievement called "Come On. Catch Me.", referring to this scene of the show. and "Stupid Spoiled Whore
". Another achievement was to be titled "How to Eat with Your Butt
", but buttocks
are not allowed to be shown on the service.
2009. It was released on October 7, 2009, the day the second half of the show's thirteenth season
premiered. In October 2009, as part of Xbox Live's "Game with Fame" promotion, players were able to play with series co-creator Matt Stone
, and other South Park Studios employees online.
GameSpot
gave the game a 7.5 out of 10 saying "A great sense of humor and challenging gameplay make Let's Go Tower Defense Play! easily the best South Park game to date." IGN
gave the game a 7.0 out of 10 because of the story, non-stop nostalgia, and having the game have more of a multiplayer focus, making the game frustrating for solo gamers. At the 2009 Spike Video Game Awards, the game was awarded the "Best Game Based on a Movie or TV Show" award.
South Park
South Park is an American animated television series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. Intended for mature audiences, the show has become famous for its crude language, surreal, satirical, and dark humor that lampoons a wide range of topics...
, released on the Xbox Live Arcade
Xbox Live Arcade
Xbox Live Arcade is a type of video game download distribution available primarily in a section of the Xbox Live Marketplace, Microsoft's digital distribution network for the Xbox 360, that focuses on smaller downloadable games from both major publishers and independent game developers...
service for the Xbox 360
Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
video game console. The game was developed by Doublesix
Doublesix
Doublesix is a subsidiary of Kuju Entertainment based in Guildford that develops video games for the digital download market. The studio was formed from the team that made Geometry Wars: Galaxies. They also made the zombie themed shooter, Burn Zombie Burn!...
, in collaboration with South Park Digital Studios and Xbox Live Productions
Xbox Live Productions
Xbox Live Productions is an American video game developer based in Redmond, Washington created internally by Microsoft Game Studios in 2008, in order to create "high quality digital content" for Xbox Live.-History:...
. Let's Go Tower Defense Play is a tower defense
Tower defense
Tower defense is a subgenre of real-time strategy computer games.The goal of tower defense games is to try to stop enemies from crossing a map by building towers which shoot at them as they pass. Enemies and towers usually have varied abilities, costs, and ability costs...
game, with the added element of being a fast-paced action game
Action game
Action game is a video game genre that emphasizes physical challenges, including hand–eye coordination and reaction-time. The genre includes diverse subgenres such as fighting games, shooter games, and platform games, which are widely considered the most important action games, though some...
as well. Thus, players do not only build towers to eliminate destructive forces, but they also have to control multiple characters in order to successfully protect the town of South Park. South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play! is the first South Park video game released after three early titles released between 1998 and 2000. The game costs 800 Microsoft Points
Microsoft Points
Microsoft Points are the currency of the Xbox Live Marketplace, Games for Windows - Live Marketplace, Windows Live Gallery, and Zune online stores. The points allow users to purchase content without a credit card and to reduce the number of small credit card transaction fees, which Microsoft would...
.
Gameplay
Like in other tower defense games players must destroy waves of enemies using towers strategically placed around a path. In addition players can directly control a character to directly attack the enemies and collect dropped coins in order to buy and place down more towers. In single player, the player switches between each character, whilst multiplayer assigns characters to each player.Plot
The game begins as CartmanEric Cartman
Eric Theodore Cartman is a fictional character in the American animated television series South Park. One of four main characters, along with Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Kenny McCormick, he is generally referred to within the series by his last name...
runs over to Stan's
Stan Marsh
Stanley Randall "Stan" Marsh is a fictional character in the animated television series South Park. He is voiced by and loosely based on series co-creator Trey Parker. Stan is one of the show's four central characters, along with his friends Kyle Broflovski, Kenny McCormick, and Eric Cartman...
house to warn him that 'horrible beings' are attacking South Park. The two are able to defend the household from an army of Ginger Kids
Ginger Kids
"Ginger Kids" is the 136th episode of Comedy Central's series South Park. It originally aired on November 9, 2005. The episode caused a controversy after its ironic premise was misunderstood by people who acted violently against gingers...
and Cows
Cow Days
"Cow Days" is the thirteenth episode of the second season of the animated television series South Park, and 26th episode of the series overall. "Cow Days" originally aired in the United States on September 30, 1998...
before picking up Kyle
Kyle Broflovski
Kyle Broflovski is a fictional character in the animated television series South Park. He is voiced by co-creator Matt Stone. Kyle is one of the show's four central characters, along with his friends Stan Marsh, Kenny McCormick, and Eric Cartman...
and running to their school. Once again, they manage to protect the area, but Cartman receives a phone call from Kenny
Kenny McCormick
Kenneth "Kenny" McCormick is a fictional character in the animated television series South Park. He is one of the four central characters along with his friends Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Eric Cartman. His oft-muffled and indiscernible speech—the result of his parka hood covering his...
, who is under attack. After helping Kenny to fight off another horde of enemies, the boys deduce that the one responsible for the mayhem can only be an evil supervillain: Professor Chaos
Butters Stotch
Leopold "Butters" Stotch is a fictional character in the animated television series South Park. He is voiced by series co-creator Matt Stone and loosely based on co-producer Eric Stough. He is a fourth-grade student who commonly has extraordinary experiences not typical of conventional small-town...
.
The boys reach Butters' house and confront Chaos, but he claims that his only evil plan was 'to replace all the healthy mineral water in the pharmacy with boring old regular water'. During a battle with another group of enemies, one of Butters' testicles is shattered, so the boys take him to Hell's Pass Hospital and protect it while he is healed. Jimmy runs in to tell the boys to head to Stark's Pond, where they help Jimbo and Ned to stop another group of enemies from destroying the town. Craig directs them to the lair of the 6th Graders
Pre-School (South Park)
"Pre-School" is the 121st episode and the 10th in season 8 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on November 10, 2004.- Plot :...
, led by Scott Tenorman
Scott Tenorman Must Die
"Scott Tenorman Must Die" is the fourth episode of the fifth season of the animated television series South Park, and the 69th episode of the series overall. "Scott Tenorman Must Die" originally aired in the United States on July 11, 2001 on Comedy Central. English rock band Radiohead guest star in...
, who have been recruited by the sinister evil that looms over the town.
After defeating Scott and the 6th Graders, Clyde tells the gang to help Mr. Lu Kim to defend the Great Wall of South Park from an army of Mongolians
Child Abduction Is Not Funny
"Child Abduction Is Not Funny" is episode 90 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on July 24, 2002. This episode mocks moral panics, and was the last to feature Tweek as the "fourth friend" alongside Stan, Kyle and Cartman....
. After a long battle, the boys and Lu Kim are victorious, but only before being redirected once again, this time to the South Park Docks, by Tweek.
The boys defend the Docks from a group of enemies led by General Disarray. After doing so, Pip attempts to reveal the villain's identity to the boys, but, typically, they reject him before he is able to finish his sentence. The boys head up high into the mountains above South Park to meet Randy, who tells them that they are about to be attacked. They are able to stop ManBearPig
ManBearPig
"ManBearPig" is the sixth episode of the tenth season of Comedy Central's South Park. It originally aired on April 26, 2006. The episode parodies the film An Inconvenient Truth.- Plot :Former U.S...
and a mass of Demons
Best Friends Forever
"Best Friends Forever" is the fourth episode of the ninth season of the American animated television series series South Park. It was written and directed by co-creator Trey Parker and first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on March 30, 2005....
from taking over the geology building, before Timmy comes to meet them and they are directed one final time to Downtown South Park. Randy confirms that they must head Downtown to stop the villain, and warns the boys that 'he has always been waiting' for them.
The boys stop a huge army of assorted enemies from destroying the town hall before a voice announces 'Game Over' and the game world collapses. After the boys are pulled out into a world beyond the Universe, the villain is revealed to be the Japanese Announcer (from the episode "Chinpokomon
Chinpokomon
"Chinpokomon" is the 10th episode of the third season of the American animated television series South Park. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on November 3, 1999, making it the 41st episode of the series...
"), who has been manipulating South Park and using the boys as pawns. The Announcer then attacks South Park and attempts to storm the town hall himself, but the boys are able to defeat him. Without an ultimate villain controlling South Park, the evil forces disappear and everything returns to normal.
Development
After the early success of South ParkSouth Park
South Park is an American animated television series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. Intended for mature audiences, the show has become famous for its crude language, surreal, satirical, and dark humor that lampoons a wide range of topics...
, three video games based on the show have been released by Acclaim Entertainment
Acclaim Entertainment
Acclaim Entertainment was an American video game developer and publisher. It developed, published, marketed and distributed interactive entertainment software for a variety of hardware platforms, including Sega's Mega Drive/Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, and Game Gear, Nintendo's NES, SNES, Nintendo...
: South Park
South Park (video game)
South Park is a first-person shooter video game based on the first few seasons of the popular TV series of the same name. The game is powered by the Turok 2 game engine and was released in 1998 by Acclaim for the PC, Nintendo 64 and PlayStation. A Brazilian version was published by Gradiente for...
(1998), South Park: Chef's Luv Shack
South Park: Chef's Luv Shack
South Park: Chef's Luv Shack is a 2D game-show style video game based on the television show South Park. It was released in 1999 for the Dreamcast, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and PC. It gained its popularity by having mini games and the ability to play against friends in a challenge for the most...
(1999), and South Park Rally
South Park Rally
South Park Rally is a kart-style racing video game, based on the American animated comedy series South Park. Developed by Tantalus and published by Acclaim in 2000 – near the end of the third season of the show – for PlayStation, Windows , Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast systems, the game includes many...
(2000). South Park creators Trey Parker
Trey Parker
Trey Parker is an American animator, screenwriter, director, producer, voice artist, musician and actor, best known for being the co-creator of the television series South Park along with his creative partner and best friend Matt Stone.Parker started his film career in 1992, making a holiday short...
and Matt Stone
Matt Stone
Matthew Richard "Matt" Stone is an American screenwriter, producer, voice artist, musician and actor, best known for being the co-creator of South Park along with creative partner and best friend, Trey Parker....
had little to do with the development of these early titles, and have publicly criticized Acclaim and the quality of the games. Directors and producers of South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play! also criticized the previous games as being "disappointing", and for the 3D titles not having the look and feel of the simplistic, "crude and sloppy" cutout animation
Cutout animation
Cutout animation is a technique for producing animations using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric or even photographs...
-based style of South Park. Work on South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play! started after forming a small group called South Park Digital Studios in late 2007, whose aim was to work on projects related to South Park, except for the TV show itself. Creative Director Brion Chris said that when starting to develop the game, the team's "biggest hurdle to overcome was the bad taste the early South Park video games left in our collective mouths." Parker and Stone were involved in the creation of SPLGTDP from the beginning.
South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play! was developed in collaboration with three studios. The majority of the development on the game was done by UK studio Doublesix
Doublesix
Doublesix is a subsidiary of Kuju Entertainment based in Guildford that develops video games for the digital download market. The studio was formed from the team that made Geometry Wars: Galaxies. They also made the zombie themed shooter, Burn Zombie Burn!...
, while Microsoft Game Studios also had artists and programmers working on the game, and provided additional work on the project, including improvements based on Usability Research. South Park Digital Studios brought their expertise of working on the show for 13 seasons, and were in charge of the script, content, and quality control. The team constantly reviewed several aspect of the game, including every graphical asset created for it outside the South Park Studios. South Park Digital Studios also helped in setting the style of and creating the different towers available in the game, which are designed to have the appearance of having been put together by the kids, from various materials lying around.
Most of the game's art assets were provided by South Park Digital Studios. New cutscene
Cutscene
A cutscene is a sequence in a video game over which the player has no or only limited control, breaking up the gameplay and used to advance the plot, strengthen the main character's development, introduces enemy characters, and provide background information, atmosphere, dialogue, and clues...
s were created, in a style that is both true to the show's look, and to the Anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
-inspired look of the game. The dialogue in the game features both archive recordings from the show's past seasons, as well as new lines recorded by the original voice talent of the show; mainly creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. New original music was composed and produced by South Park composer Jamie Dunlap.
As South Park is often controversial in both its subject matter
Subject matter in South Park
South Park has attempted to cover and satirize a large number of topics over the course of its run. In more recent years, the use of computer animation has made it possible to edit episodes in days, quickly commenting on recent events...
and language use, certain decisions were considered about both the content featured in the game, and its title. While most content was left in the game unaltered, including many short clips from the episodes of the show, some cuts were made specifically for the Japanese
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
Microsoft team, for the game to be available for release in Japan. The title for the game went through several iterations. The original title for the game was South Park: Suck My Balls, but was done away after considering how to censor its title with asterisks on Microsoft's Xbox Live Marketplace
Xbox Live Marketplace
The Xbox Live Marketplace is a virtual market designed for Microsoft's Xbox 360 console that allows Xbox Live members to download purchased or promotional content...
service. The next idea was to name the game Snowballin, alluding to the snowball
Snowball
A snowball is a spherical object made from snow, usually created by scooping snow with the hands, and compacting it into a roughly fist-sized ball. The snowball is often used to engage in games, such as snowball fights. Snowball fights are usually light-hearted and involve throwing snowballs at...
-fighting nature of the game, while also referring to the sexual practice
Snowballing (sexual practice)
Snowballing or snowdropping is the human sexual practice in which one person takes another person's semen into his or her mouth and then passes it back to the mouth of the other, usually through kissing.The term was originally used only by homosexuals...
. Another title considered for the game was the pseudo-Japanese sounding Baru Baru Suki Suki. After all of these were refused as unacceptable titles for the game, it was decided to name it South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play!, which fit in with "the Japanese animation
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
-style feel" of the game.The occasional usage of incorrect English phrasing in Japanese popular culture
Japanese popular culture
Japanese popular culture not only reflects the attitudes and concerns of the present but also provides a link to the past. Japanese cinema, cuisine, television programs, manga, and music all developed from older artistic and literary traditions, and many of their themes and styles of presentation...
, along with the phrase "let's go", were parodied in a song in the Anime-centric South Park episode "Good Times with Weapons
Good Times with Weapons
"Good Times with Weapons" is episode 112 of South Park. The first episode of Season 8, it originally aired on March 17, 2004. The episode's animation routinely switches from the usual cutout-and-solid-color style to a highly stylized anime theme. Asian-style ambience plays in the background.This...
". Other problematic issues involved the names of the game's achievements
Achievement (video gaming)
In video gaming parlance, an achievement, also sometimes known as a trophy or challenge, is a meta-goal defined outside of a game's parameters...
, which are all references to the series. Achievements are publicly visible outside of the game, and there are restrictions on the names and images that can be used in them. Rejected achievement included the drug-related phrase "Chasing the Dragon
Chasing the dragon
"Chasing the dragon" refers to inhaling the vapor from heated morphine, heroin, oxycodone or opium that has been placed on a piece of foil...
""Chasing the dragon" refers to the elusive pursuit of the ultimate high in the usage of some particular drug. A gag in the South Park episode "Guitar Queer-O
Guitar Queer-o
"Guitar Queer-O" is episode 1113 of Comedy Central's South Park, which aired on November 7, 2007. The title and plot parody the video game Guitar Hero. The episode aired ten days after the release of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock in the US....
" showed an addictive video game called Heroin Hero, in which the character does nothing but inject himself with heroin while literally chasing a dragon that cannot be caught, only chased. The final version of South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play! does include an achievement called "Come On. Catch Me.", referring to this scene of the show. and "Stupid Spoiled Whore
Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset
"Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset" is episode 123 of the Comedy Central animated series South Park. It was originally broadcast on December 1, 2004...
". Another achievement was to be titled "How to Eat with Your Butt
How to Eat with Your Butt
"How to Eat with Your Butt" is the tenth episode of the fifth season of the animated television series South Park, and the 75th episode of the series overall...
", but buttocks
Buttocks
The buttocks are two rounded portions of the anatomy, located on the posterior of the pelvic region of apes and humans, and many other bipeds or quadrupeds, and comprise a layer of fat superimposed on the gluteus maximus and gluteus medius muscles. Physiologically, the buttocks enable weight to...
are not allowed to be shown on the service.
Release and reception
The game was first mentioned at the 2008 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), and was later revealed with its final title at Comic-ConComic-Con
Comic-Con, Comic Con or ComiCon may refer to any of the following Comic book conventions, none of them affiliated to any other:*San Diego Comic-Con International, annual fan convention in San Diego held since 1970, also known as Comic-Con or San Diego Comic-Con*Dallas Comic Con, annual fan...
2009. It was released on October 7, 2009, the day the second half of the show's thirteenth season
South Park (season 13)
The 13th season of South Park, an American animated television comedy series, originally aired in the United States on Comedy Central between March 11 and November 18, 2009. The season was headed by the series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who served as executive producers along with Anne...
premiered. In October 2009, as part of Xbox Live's "Game with Fame" promotion, players were able to play with series co-creator Matt Stone
Matt Stone
Matthew Richard "Matt" Stone is an American screenwriter, producer, voice artist, musician and actor, best known for being the co-creator of South Park along with creative partner and best friend, Trey Parker....
, and other South Park Studios employees online.
GameSpot
GameSpot
GameSpot is a video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information. The site was launched in May 1, 1996 by Pete Deemer, Vince Broady and Jon Epstein. It was purchased by ZDNet, a brand which was later purchased by CNET Networks. CBS Interactive, which...
gave the game a 7.5 out of 10 saying "A great sense of humor and challenging gameplay make Let's Go Tower Defense Play! easily the best South Park game to date." IGN
IGN
IGN is an entertainment website that focuses on video games, films, music and other media. IGN's main website comprises several specialty sites or "channels", each occupying a subdomain and covering a specific area of entertainment...
gave the game a 7.0 out of 10 because of the story, non-stop nostalgia, and having the game have more of a multiplayer focus, making the game frustrating for solo gamers. At the 2009 Spike Video Game Awards, the game was awarded the "Best Game Based on a Movie or TV Show" award.