The boys go on to battle evil as a meteor approaches South park
South Park the video game is a First Person Shooter, released in North America on the Nintendo 64 in 1998, two years after the show started airing. By 1999 the game made it to Europe, as well as ported to the PC and Playstation. The Nintendo 64 would see two more South Park games released, Chef's Luv Shack and South Park Rally. All three games were published by Acclaim, but South Park, the first South Park video game, was developed by Iguana Entertainment. Iguana Entertainment previously developed Turok for the Nintendo 64, and built the South Park game on the Turok 2 engine.
Gameplay
The game is a First Person Shooter with both single and multiplayer modes. Single player has a storyline that feels like it could have been lifted straight from an episode, complete with cutscenes featuring Chef as he guides the boys to each disturbance around town. Throughout the levels you'll face three types of enemies; normal enemies, tanks and bosses. The key difference in South Park is that tanks spawn regular enemies (so you'll want to target them first), but once they lose enough health they make a dash for the start of the level. If a tank reaches the start of the level, you will need to face them again in a penalty stage where all the tanks you missed try to destroy South Park.
Bosses occur at various times throughout the game and require player to think strategically about their weak points. The boss fights are some of my favourite moments in the game and add a lot of variety to the regular stages. As you play through single player and complete stages, you will eventually unlock a whole roster of characters to use in multiplayer.
Multiplayer is where the game really shines. With a great roster of characters the Nintendo 64 allows four player to battle it out in a series of different levels, scattered with guns and power-ups. The stages aren't massive and sprawling, you can try out a series of different weapons quickly and even use weapons, like the dance laser, that isn't available in single player.
What's it like in South Park?
It's a big, sparse game. In single player you either control Kyle, Stan, Cartman or Kenny armed with snowballs. Throughout the levels you'll eventually build a collection of weapons including a Chicken Sniper that shoots eggs, Terrance and Phillip dolls that explode on impact releasing poison gas, dodge balls, foam bullet guns and lasers. Most of the weapons include a secondary fire option that makes them slower, but more powerful. The snow balls can get coated in urine, giving them splash damage. The foam darts can be set to fire a volley and the plunger gun can fire three horizontally. The most powerful weapon is the cow launcher that shoots a cow RPG. In Multiplayer you can obscure the vision of another player by firing the cow launcher, and watching the cow fall down on their head.
The stages however aren't as exciting. South Park is a fun town to explore in 3D, and for most fans of the show this was the first time they could. There are several shops, stores and houses from the series serving as landmarks throughout the town but most of the levels take you into the surrounding mountain ranges. Players will find a lot of their time spent travelling through sprawling fields of snow and caverns. For such an open feeling game, this levels are mostly very linear requiring you to follow a specific path. As you advance in the game, you will eventually board an alien spaceship, launch a full scale attack on a toy shop and head to industrial distract to disrupt a cloning device.
Cheaters
I played this game with cheats enabled. I am a cheater. But you can be too with the codes below. Pen and ink mode looked terrible to me, but does make multiplayer pretty challenging.
| BOBBYBIRD | All cheats enabled |
| THEEARTHMOVED | Level select |
| ASSMAN | Invincibility |
| FATKNACKER | All weapons |
| FATTERKNACKER | Infinite ammo |
| OMGTKKYB | All characters in multi-player mode |
| SLAPUPMEAL | Starvin Marvin unlocked |
| PHAERT | Phillip unlocked |
| RAFT | Terrance unlocked |
| DOROTHYSFRIEND | Mr. Garrison unlocked |
| CHEATINGISBAD | Mr. Mackey unlocked |
| LOVEMACHINE | Chef unlocked |
| CHECKATACO | Wendy unlocked |
| FISHNCHIPS | Pip unlocked |
| KICKME | Ike unlocked |
| ALLWOMAN | Ms. Cartman unlocked |
| GOODSCIENCE | Mephisto unlocked |
| STARINGFROG | Jimbo unlocked |
| HAWKING | Ned unlocked |
| OUTRAGE | Big Gay Al unlocked |
| ELVISLIVES | Officer Barbrady unlocked |
| MAJESTIC | Alien unlocked |
| VEGGIEHEAVEN | Skinny unlocked |
| MEGANOGGIN | Big head mode |
| PLANEARIUM | Pen and ink mode |
| SCREWYOUGUYS | View credits |