Hardcore Gamer: Across the history of licensed video games, those based on television shows haven't been nearly as ubiquitous as those based on movies. Despite the fact that the episodic and more long-form nature of TV presents an arguably easier transition to games, TV show games aren't all that common. Of course, the recently released South Park: The Stick of Truth is probably the most high profile TV show game of all time, not to mention one of the best received by both fans and critics. In honor of The Stick of Truth, let's look back at some of the more notable games based on TV shows, and maybe do a little bit of wishful thinking about shows that have all the makings of a great video game adaptation, but haven't yet been given a chance.
Over the last 25 years, there has been a fair few South Park games, and here GameSpew has ranked them all from best to worst.
We are going to see a lot of crap South Park products since they sold out to paramount years ago. It's their IP they can sell out, of course; it just means the quality of their show has tanked and other products as well. Nevertheless, they put on excellent musicals, but those haven't been sold to a mega corporation.
They said awhile ago that Ubisoft holds contract rights to the main flagship South Park games. So like stick, fractured and phone destroyer.
Snow Day was handled by THQ and Question and is a random spinoff. Hopefully Ubisoft is cooking something.
Loved the RPGs but never played the others. Have to track them down. Still not sure about Snow Day though.
The South Park series has somehow managed to stay relevant for over 25 years, but which are the best games based on the TV show?
The only two worth playing are Stick of truth and fractured but whole. The rest were garbage except snow day which I can't say anything about yet. But with that said, unlike stick and fractured which debuted as AAA full priced titles by ubisoft, snow day is a new developer and publisher and has a budget price at only $30 soooo
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I see Deadpool made the list. Also saw it in stock at the local game store. Second hand. Might finally pick up a copy.
Aw, come on, Buffy isn't that bad.
lost could have been so much better. shouldn't make a game when the show isn't even finished