Obsidian Making South Park RPG

By Brian P Rubin | 01 December 2011 | 11 Comments

Today, Game Informer broke the story that THQ and Obsidian (the developers behind Fallout: New Vegas) were working closely with Trey Parker and Matt Stone to put out South Park: The Game. Apparently this will be a full-fledged RPG that sees you as the new kid in town trying to “make friends and defend the town from a wide range of threats.” VAGUE.

According to the teaser on Game Informer’s site—the game is the January issue’s cover story—the show’s creators are “writing the script, performing the dialogue, and overseeing the development” of the title, so if you like what they do, you should like this. The game is set to come out sometime in 2012 for the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 AND PC (no Wii release? That’s odd…), but there’s no word yet on whether this will be a retail release or a downloadable title.

I dunno. Tie-in games…eh, they’re always tough. It’s nice that Parker and Stone—who are enjoying unparalleled success with The Book of Mormon on Broadway—are so heavily involved, though. Because if they weren’t, well, this wouldn’t be much of a story then, would it?

Check out the magazine’s full January 2012 cover below:

Via Game Informer

11 Comments

Posted by ademir on 01 December 11 at 12:06pm

Lol.
Posted by Landon Robinson on 01 December 11 at 12:10pm

There’s an entire spread on the cover for this? This could be a tad more significant than South Park tower defense.
Posted by IH on 01 December 11 at 12:39pm

I’m not totally sure how this is going to work, but regardless, I’m looking forward to more details.

BTW, the game will be coming out on the PC as well. I’d love to know why you guys keep neglecting to mention the PC in your articles.
- Posted by Brian P Rubin on 01 December 11 at 1:05pm
  
  Because “PS3″ and “Xbox 360″ are made of many letters, and “PC” is only made of two, and I failed my reading comprehension test. I apologize for the oversight, and will fix the article IMMEDIAMENTE!!!!!
  - Posted by IH on 01 December 11 at 10:04pm
    
    Good. I’d better not see this crap again.
    
    Seriously though, thanks for fixing it. BOLD YELLOW TEXT.
Posted by JGByron on 01 December 11 at 4:26pm

This sounds like one of those ideas that should stay on Comedy Central’s website as a flash game.
Posted by rtm416 on 01 December 11 at 7:27pm

Why couldn’t they spend this time on Fallout 4?
- Posted by Aeph on 01 December 11 at 11:52pm
  
  Because new vegas wasn’t as good as fallout 3, so bethesda probably didn’t let them do it, and were gonna handle that shit by themselves, but they had to finish skyrim first. fallout 4(or, more likely, fallout: subtitle) is probably under way.
  
  Game sounds like it could be fun if done well, i like south park, so bring it on!
Posted by WheelZ on 02 December 11 at 8:50pm

This sounds pretty damn good, i’d love to be in the world of South Park, and this would be the best way to do so. I’m so kicking Cartman squeer in d’nuts!
Posted by DJ_Aldesso on 03 December 11 at 2:52pm

hahaha now im all nostalgic and can only think about south park on the n64
Posted by Condor on 03 December 11 at 7:19pm

all i have to say, is that this game is going to suck giant man penis