South Park Dreaming

Now we know. A South Park game is in the works. But considering that no information was given in regard to what type of game it would be, GameSpot News wondered what kind of South Park game would be the one you'd want to play?

Here's a listing of some of the responses we received:

For the PC version I think you should be playing as Cartman and have to go around killing people (yes, even Kenny)- Arl64

I think if South Park was translated to a Worms 2-type game it would be great! I have been playing Worms 2 a lot lately and one thought I couldn't get it off my mind was how much better the game would be with a South Park expansion pack complete with an explosive diarrhea weapon.- Jeff Townsend

Killing Kenny would be a good game but they need to stretch their imaginations and come up with a game that is going to last a lot longer, something like Monkey Island III. I can just imagine it now, you have to search South Park to help Stan find his Cheesy Poofs while running away from Stan's evil twin and Stan saying "Dude, this is pretty f@#%!d up right here".- Jim Dunk

The Beavis and Butthead game was really enjoyable, and South Park would do well by doing something along the same format. It would allow all of the town sites and citizens to be incorporated.- Michael Gaynor

Think a good mini-game (it wouldn't hold anyone's attention long enough to be full game) would be a beep out the expletive game. It would be "Parappa the Rapper" style and you would have to push a button to beep out one of the kid's swear words. For example: Stan would say, "Cartman! You're a stupid pig *beep*" and the beep would be where you would push the button. They could mix up the beeps with sounds like trucks crashing, laughing hyenas, flatulation, etc.

Here's my last two ideas. One is Rampage, but with those South Park kids. Instead of them growing large, though, they would shrink. Then they would climb people and beat the heck out of them like the buildings in Rampage. Two, they could be in a Space Quest type of game, or heck, even something like that Putt-Putt goes to the Circus.- FrostyI think that having South Park as a video game is a good idea if they use it in the right way. I have a feeling that they will make the game so completely different from the show that you won't even recognize it at all. I personally feel that they can make the game out of the episodes from the show like in one section of the game have Ike get stolen by aliens and you have to find him, in another you could fight the Mecha Streisand- Josh Jarosh

I say you make it a game where Cartman should go around trying to figure out who his dad is, by searching for clues and get information from the people of South Park. You could make it so that each time it is a different person so you could play the game hundreds of times and not get bored of it. On Cartman's journey he could encounter aliens and other enemies where he would have to defeat by having special weapons like his flaming fart or the fatass roll where he would curl up and roll over enemies. He could get these weapons or moves by eating certain foods and defeating certain enemies like when he defeats the head alien you would get an anal probe giving him the flaming fart and so on. Actually you should just make that the first level and make more of them that involve the other main characters.- The Taylors

Have Cartman go on a quest for cheesy poofs then become Stan and Kyle and go through the town protecting Kenny from Space ships to Mr.Garrison.

Have a football game with Ike as the football and the characters of South Park as the teams.

Make a racing game with Miss Crabtree as one of the drivers.

Make it like Parappa the Rapper where you have to hit button combos for all the songs of the show.- John Staschak

I think an RPG based on the characters from South Park would be great. With some cool animation of the many deaths of Kenny as a hidden feature would be awesome.- Flash9059

Well, as a fan of South Park...I think the South Park game should be in different formats like one being a Pac Man type thing, and the other being a Doom type game, and the other being a BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD Virtual Stupidity style...That's what I think...- Joshua Taylor

The game should be an RPG with quests based on the episodes. Y'know like "save South Park from Mecha Streisand"- Alan and Jennifer

Let me start off to say that a boring "Kill Kenny" title will just piss off all of us "South Park Fanatics" so much that we will fart fire and burn the EGM and Acclaim buildings down. We want a game that captures all the aspects of the show. Have it be a 2D game and not 3D because it will ruin the look unless its done Parappa style (2D characters in a 3D environment). All talk done by the original voices and no text boxes. Make it an RPG-esque game (e.g. you have to look for Kyle's brother Ike who got lost and talk to everyone to get clues. Give it numerous episodes where you must perform a different task. Give it LOTS of mini games like FFVII. Killing the Barbara Streisand Monster, try having Cartman convince the aliens to gave him an anal probe ,etc.- Rob Young

Well, first off, allow me to say that I am a huge fan of both South Park and video games... a hardcore gamer since the mid-80's I've been there and done that, but not ready to move on. And ditto with South Park (except only since the series came out, not mid 80's. I'd have to be a telepath or something).

But I am not to keen on the idea of combining the two. But since the videogames industry is hell-bent on exploiting every single pop-culture icon that passes our way, fine, I'll deal with it, but I won't have to like it. In my terribly humble opinion, you could not make one game out of South Park. You'd have to make several smaller games. For instance, toss in a puzzle game involving Cartman and cheesy-poofs, starving "Etheropeans", or other such memorable South Park moments.

Maybe a platform game, a la the Mario Brothers series with Kenny, and when you die it is in some hilariously gruesome ways. Maybe a fighting game in a Street Fighter style, with characters like Chef, Jesus, Satan, Santa Claus, and Mr. Garrison. But make sure there are tons of sound clips, maybe even a few cut scenes between levels, and all of it in a quasi- paper doll style just like the show. So long as 1) the game is not taken too seriously, 2) The game is not under any circumstances edited for content, language, etc., 3) Any scripting and all plot devices are written solely by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and 4) Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone have complete and final authority on the game, its content, its style, everything so that it is true to South Park and not come cheesy game industry rip off of the biggest slap-in-the-face comedy in a while. - TigerTailX

I think the gang has to try to find ways to kill Kenny. Kenny will keep on going and going through various levels and you have to pick up things to kill him.- Michael Joseph Delegan

I think the South Park game should be an RPG. It should include movies, and screen shots, and all in 3D! That would be cool. The game should be about trying to save Stan's little Brother from the boogie man. Cartman, of course, doesn't believe in the boogie man, but everyone in South Park helps in their own way. It should be cool. The guest star could be Madonna or something.-Victor Acord

After reading about many games based on licenses, I really don't care what kind of game South Park will be, because it will crash and burn horribly. Now, don't get me wrong, but look at other games based on licenses to make them sell. Take Shaq Fu, Michael Jordan in the Windy City, or Beavis and Butthead... all of those games sucked. The only license that ever worked was Ken Griffey's games. Other than that, all the license games were horrible. I love South Park, but a show can only go so far.-Chris Isler

The game should be like Kyle, Stan, and Kenny get kidnapped by Chef because he goes crazy and the whole world and Cartman goes out to save them like a GoldenEye like game.- Coyote3018

The chef has got to keep singing when the video game comes out, South Park wouldn't be the same...will we ever see the hooded kids face...that could be an idea for the end of the game.... reveal whatever his name's face.

I do watch South Park but being a bit forgetful I put the video. I forget to watch it sometimes due to social commitments, you know...

I am around 30 years old and I went to a lunch the other day in Brisbane, Australia and my 'with-it' friends (you know some 30 year olds go a bit banal because they think they have to) anyway we were drinking wine and nearly falling off our chairs talking about the show... it's great... maybe you could include that in a new series... a bunch of crazy single-white-females doing their stuff at lunch when something crass happens... like a Christmas pooh scenario amongst pooh-phobic girls at lunch...-Vague Maree

Okay, what I see is this, it's like GoldenEye except you end up being Kenny, Kyle, Cartman, Stan, or Chef. You have all kinds of different missions (get Kenny out alive). Or say you're Stan and you need to help Chef get some good lovin'. Zombies... need I say more. Multiplayer would have to be fast and funny and all you'd have normal weapons like rifles and missiles, provided by Uncle Jim. The possibilities are endless....-Todd Shreve

I would like to see a 3D adventure where you choose between the four characters and if you choose someone besides Kenny, you kill him.-Rednum5

An adventure type game would be the best in my opinion. Like Beavis and Butthead (the game) where there was a lot of humor and extra objects to play with. Stuff that's not important to the plot but stuff that's just there to play with.-Peter

As a loyal South Park junky, I would love to see more RPGs out there and South Park would be the best.- OvErKiL496I happen to think Acclaim, who has a mild reputation for spoiling and ruining major movie licenses and such, shouldn't even bother with South Park. It would almost appear Acclaim is trying to cash in on just how popular South Park has become. But anyway, another point is I have no idea what sort of game you could create inside the South Park universe. Some 2D side scroller would definitely seem like the easy way out, but that'd be pretty crappy for the most part, just like the Beavis and Butthead SNES game. Then again, you could do something like Beavis and Butthead: Virtual Stupidity for the PC, some adventure type game. But for the most part Acclaim should just leave South Park alone.- Rob

Acclaim has made its share of good and bad games. The bad games were mostly big license games like South Park. This should not happen to South Park because many people, definitely over 3 million will buy the game and disappointment will kill Acclaim all the way. They should make it as good, funny, politically incorrect, and close to the show's plot as it can be.-Renuka Das

I'm not allowed to watch South Park, but I have heard enough about it to come up with an idea. I think it should be like the show, but with a mission in each level. An example would be like to try to keep Kenny alive while only losing one of the other characters. Another idea would be to have the Chef trying to escape an old girlfriend he doesn't like anymore and he must avoid objects and other women who want him.-Alex Szopinski

I want to see a Final Fantasy VII style South Park game. Are there any chances of that?-Roy

I think for the South Park game, Cartman should be trying to find cheesy puffs during the game and the whole South Park gang is helping him.-David B Stark

I really think that the game should be an RPG. It should be a quest to find out why Kenny keeps dying. You would be able to do summons like Scuzzlebutt, Satan, Jesus, Polly Prissy Pants, Iraqi Soldiers, and Leonard Maltin. If Acclaim screws this license up like they did with Fantastic Four... I don't know what I'll do...-TrojnMan66I think it would be cool if it was based on "Cartman gets an anal probe". You would play with Kyle and have the rest as helpers (or have the choice of playing as any of them). The object would either be and you have to try and save Ike from the aliens. Or you could be Cartman and try to find the truth behind your so-called "Dream". My last idea is you can play as Kyle, Cartman, or Stan. The object is to try and protect Kenny from being killed through different stages and levels. It would also be cool if each level was a different episode.-Graham Quast

I think it should have a bunch of different things like a multiplayer level with Kyle (using his brother Ike as a weapon), Cartman (who can fart fire), Stan (who can vomit on people), Kenny (who has punching and kicking), etc. Then you should have sub games like - the Kill Kenny Game, How Many Chicks Can Chief Get, How Many Dogs Can Stan's Gay Dog Hump, andso on. That's just some of my ideas.-Judy McCoy

Don't get me wrong, I love South Park, but there just isn't a game in it. It just wouldn't work. It couldn't be a side scroller, because the characters are normally facing forward, and it couldn't be 3D because the characters aren't exactly three-dimensional. Then the game's story, what would be the fun of killing Kenny all the time? That's why people watch the show.

If anything, the game would be a huge flop, and it would end up being a big embarrassment to Acclaim. But I could be wrong...- Astro1108

A South Park game would be great in some type of adventure mode, 2D of course, sticking with the true style of the cartoon. Maybe something along the lines of saving South Park from destruction, a la Mecha-Streisand, or a raging volcano. There could even be multiple missions to get through, all success relying on solving puzzles and interacting with key characters. It would be even better if they could throw in some mini-games, like a street fighter-esque battle with Satan, or an "aim and launch" game sending the lesbian to the moon.- Kevin Freedman