South Park RPG coming late 2012 from Fallout: New Vegas developer

by Andrew Yoon, Dec 01, 2011 9:30am PST

Update: THQ has confirmed that a PC version is also in the works.

South Park is no stranger to video games. However, today's newly announced South Park: The Game is easily the most ambitious title the franchise has ever attempted. No, this isn't an HD remake of the N64 first-person shooter. And no, this isn't another tower defense game. South Park: The Game is a "full-scale RPG" for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC being developed by Obsidian Entertainment, developers of Dungeon Siege III, Fallout: New Vegas, and Alpha Protocol.

Game Informer's upcoming January issue promises a first look at the THQ-published game. According to the cover reveal, series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are writing the script, performing the dialogue, and overseeing the development of the game.

You'll control "the new kid" to South Park, and you'll have to make friends and defend the town from "a wide range of threats." Hopefully, the game will take a page from Mass Effect 2, and will have you recruiting characters from around town for an epic, galaxy-threatening suicide mission.

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Andrew Yoon posted a new article, South Park RPG coming to PS3, Xbox 360 from Fallout: New Vegas developer.

South Park is no stranger to video games. However, today's newly announced South Park: The Game is easily the most ambitious title the franchise has ever attempted.

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Andrew Yoon posted a new article, South Park RPG coming to PS3, Xbox 360 from Fallout: New Vegas developer.

South Park is no stranger to video games. However, today's newly announced South Park: The Game is easily the most ambitious title the franchise has ever attempted. : Shacknews
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  how does obsidian keep getting projects? : dantastic
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    Because they fucking ROCK, that's why. : Kerranger
    - they rock so hard that they collapsed their QA department and never rebuilt it : dantastic
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      They really don't : Nehvrook
      
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      They make really great worlds, and games, they just have problems with polish(bugs and such). Ambitious g... : stygian_whisper
      
      I bet Kenny won't even be killable whether from bugs or ratings. : multisync
      
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      They take existing worlds and take a big dump on them : Entity
      
      This is wrong : Dong Patrol
      
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      By taking a dump you mean making them better? KOTOR 2's story was more interesting, NWN II expansions ha... : melkore
      
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      Yeah, they'd be one of my favorite studios if they could polish up before release... or after release... : one random winner
      
      Yeah, that's my hate for KotOR II. When I finished the game, half of the stuff didn't make sense, and was... : Totenjaeger
      
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      This is so wrong it hurts, if for no other reason than Fallout: New Vegas, which was much more true to Fa... : GigiLeCheshire
      
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      Other than a horrific array of crash-to-desktop issues, New Vegas is the only remarkable thing they've do... : Entity
      
      You're nuts if you thought KotOR 2 was bland. Buggy? Yes. Bland, hell no. The story was way better tha... : Rice-Rocketeer
      
      To put this in perspective, Dungeon Siege III is the only game they've ever made that wasn't riddled with... : deject
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    Obsidian is one of the most innovative, ambitious developers out there.
    
    It'll be a fucking sorry-assed shame if they stop getting projects and we all have to continue getting Call of Duty 928 shoved down our collective throats.
    
    Dec 01, 2011 9:51am PST
    
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    Obsidian is one of the most innovative, ambitious developers out there. It'll be a fucking sorry-assed... : Rice-Rocketeer
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      yeah because those are the only options. shittily developed games from obsidian or Call of Duty. : dantastic
      
      Hey, if you are allowed hyperbole, so am I. : Rice-Rocketeer
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      Wow I never imagined they had cheerleaders like this... : Porkasaurus
      
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      I'm not a cheerleader, but I get annoyed by the hypocrisy of the community in their lamentations of a per... : Rice-Rocketeer
      
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      I don't understand what envelope they've pushed though. All they've done are sequels to existing properti... : Entity
      
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      I play a lot of RPGs, so maybe my opinion is skewed. One of the biggest things that Obsidian does supe : Rice-Rocketeer
      
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      Obsidian : Jabby
      
      loves you too : Jabby
      
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      they have made a career on making expansion packs, and follow ups to successful franchises that arguably ... : vitek r
      
      How weren't their games innovative? Not only are they innovative, they also have the ability to refine... : Rice-Rocketeer
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    Did you not play FO:NV? It was buggy as hell, but the game itself was phenomenal. : DialDforDan
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      it was a rehash of a bethesda game. the only thing it really added were factions and even more bugs than... : dantastic
      
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      not saying it wasn't good but the reason why it was good was all laid out by FO3 : dantastic
      
      From a formula already borrowed from the Elder Scrolls series, and a world stolen from another developer.... : GigiLeCheshire
      
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      You're ridiculous. You do realize that a lot of the original Fallout devs work at Obsidian now, right? : Rice-Rocketeer
      
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      did they also make fallout 3 or did they just piggyback on the mass success of FO3 (which is a total rebo... : dantastic
      
      The gameplay of Fallout 3 is really not that great. Do people regard its gunplay as great? No. Do peop... : Rice-Rocketeer
      
      Did you just spin improving on a AAA game by a top developer as a negative? They're a hired gun who di... : DinK
  - With generous use of liquor and whores I assume. : baron calamity
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    Alpha Protocol, EOT! : mo13
    - is that game still a buggy mess? EOT indeed. : dantastic
  - Judging by Fallout: NV and their reputation, it seems they are good at making fun games but bad at fixing... : DinK
  - they make broken games but the are good games that cater to a certain audience that forgives them the fla... : Hoax
- GOTY! : Twstr709
- My name is Cartman and this is my favorite item on the menu. : Sailor of Fortune
- there is no god jesus christ what a fucking waste : ETPC1
- N64? Play that shit on PC the way it's meant to be played! : schnitz76
- However, today's newly announced South Park: The Game is easily the buggiest title the franchise has ever... : snot3353
- Southpark-rim? : Psigun
- Not sure if I can get back into South park after all these years. : baron calamity
- a south park rpg? oh god no : peasofme
- Kinda sounds like costumn quest. If this was a cheapy $15 game I'd be sooooold : SlingBlaze
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  No PC :( : Iwannaacura
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    Reading comprehension fail. : Dr_Cube
    - It got updated. : Nixx2004
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  I think I will probably buy this. Obsidian has great writers and creativity. : Dr_Cube
  - they have many people there from Interplay. : grabbie
- I remember the N64 game being a fun rental for fucking around with friends. : Vorlonesque

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