I wouldn't give this game to my worst enemy!
Well, even if you liked Magna Cum Laude, you WILL HATE this god-awful atrocity that Codemasters dared call a game. Activision was fully right to cancel this game, but considering it was near-complete, I can see why Codemasters picked it up, but that's about all they did. It's like they took a pre-Beta copy, compiled the code into a (somehow) semi-workable program, slapped on their label and shipped it off.
Now, I kinda have a soft spot for bad games (much like a lot of people enjoy a schlocky B-movie once in a while), but this isn't a "so bad it's good" game, it's "E.T. for the Atari 2600" bad, and something tells me there's a pit out in a desert somewhere being dug to hide the unsold piles of this horrible game.
To anyone who is considering giving it a shot, DON'T...this is NOT a Larry game! It's a cruddy platformer that claims to be a Larry game. In "Magna Cum Laude", at least Larry still looked and sounded like Larry, even if it was his nephew. The receding hairline, the bad clothing, and most of all the cartoonish voice in Magna Cum Laude at least reminded you of the Larry games, this game will not!
Playing it doesn't even feel like a Larry game. First off, Larry Lovage's voice sounds like some college douchebag, and Larry Laffer's voice sounds like a guy you'd expect to see working the front desk of a peep show!
Every single character in the game looks like they had all their teeth knocked out with shovels only to have them replaced with horse dentures! and the girls in the game aren't even mildly pretty, it's like they scanned in Bratz dolls and increased the breast sizes by 1000%.
And the dialogue, man oh man, believe me, I indulge in raunchy comedy quite a bit, and laugh at it often but this isn't even funny...it's not even really offensive, just...well...not funny. And when I bought this garbage, I hoped the one saving grace would be the fact that Allen Covert wrote it, considering Grandma's Boy is one of my favorite raunch comedies ever. But no, it sucks so bad that human thought and speech are incapable of describing it. Magna Cum Laude at least had some subtlety and thought to it's script.
And worst of all, leave it to this game to have choppy frame rates for such simplistic graphics. The graphic textures are so cartoonish and simple that this should've run on 60fps on a Wii! It takes a special kind of idiot to screw up even the Unreal Engine THIS bad!
Frankly, from what I hear another Larry game is in development and I can only hope for one of two outcomes: Either they bury it and never speak of it again, or they go back to the good ol' cartoonish and humorously awkward style of the lovable loser that was once known as Larry Laffer, because another game like this would not only be inexcusable, it should be punishable by law.