South Park: Chef's Luv Shack

South Park: Chef's Luv Shack
North American Dreamcast cover art
Developer(s)	Acclaim Studios Austin
Publisher(s)	Acclaim Entertainment
Distributor(s)	Comedy Central
Platform(s)	Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, PlayStation, Microsoft Windows
Release date(s)	EU: October 12, 1999 (N64)[1] NA: October 31, 1999[1][2][3] NA: November 30, 1999 (PC)[4] EU: 1999 (PS)[3]
Genre(s)	Party
Mode(s)	Multiplayer

South Park: Chef's Luv Shack is a 2D game show-style party video game based on the television show South Park. It was released in 1999 for the Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, PlayStation and Microsoft Windows. Its gameplay involves playing minigames and the ability to play against other players in a challenge for the most points. It also involves trivia questions about South Park and other topics.

Characters

In the game, the player gets to choose to be one of four characters: Eric Cartman, Kenny McCormick, Kyle Broflovski, or Stan Marsh.

Gameplay

The game intermittently switches between questions and mini-games, with a mini-game preceding every three questions. Players score points by correctly answering questions and mini-game ranking. Players lose points for questions answered incorrectly. The game is exclusively multiplayer; when played by one player, there is no AI, so that player always wins, even with a negative score. Players have the option to "shaft" (pass on) a question to another player after opting to answer the question. The "shafted" player can then pass the question on again or choose to answer the question. When "shafting", a question will always be answered by the last player to be "shafted". Despite Chef's Luv Shack appearing on all the major home gaming consoles at the time, the only instance of the game taking advantage of the then-modern hardware is the up-to-four player multiplayer game featured in the Nintendo 64 and Sega Dreamcast versions. The Sony PlayStation version supported four players with an adapter, and the PC version allows 2 players to play with a keyboard and 2 more players to play with Joysticks.

Mini games

1. Asses in Space (based on Asteroids)
2. Avalanche (based on SkiFree)
3. Bad Kitty (based on Donkey Kong)
4. BEEFCAKE! (Cartman only)
5. Bees at the Picnic (based on both Galaga and an Intellivision game called Buzz Bombers)
6. Chicken Lover (shell game)
7. Destroy Bugs
8. Eat This (pie-eating contest)
9. Find the Can
10. Frog Toss (based on the carnival game)
11. Herd Chickens
12. Go-Kart Racing (based on Super Sprint)
13. Parachute Dropping (based on Balloon Fight)
14. Pizza Patrol (based on Paperboy)
15. Rodeo (using a mechanical bull and Cartman Only)
16. Round Up
17. Save Scuzzlebutt (based on the classic Nintendo Game & Watch game "Fire")
18. Snow Fort (based on Warlords)
19. Soda Shake (derived on the bonus stage of Tapper)
20. Spank the Monkey (based on Simon)
21. Stampede (based on the Running of the Bulls)
22. Tug-Oh-War (not available in 1 player mode)
23. Whack a Zombie (based on the Whac-A-Mole arcade game)

Reception

Reception

Aggregate score Aggregator Score GameRankings (N64) 50.88%[5] (DC) 50.21%[6] (PC) 47.50%[7] (PS) 41.95%[8] Review scores Publication Score AllGame (PC) [9] [10][11] (PS) [12] GameFan (PS) 61/100[13] (N64) 60/100[14] Game Informer (DC) 3.5/10[15] (PS) 3.25/10[16] GamePro (N64) [17] (PC) [18] Game Revolution (DC) C[19] (PC) C−[20] GameSpot (PC) 4/10[21] (DC) 3.9/10[22] GameSpy 4.5/10[23] IGN (PC) 5.5/10[24] (N64) 5.3/10[25] (DC) 4.3/10[26] (PS) 2.1/10[27] OPM (US) [28] PSM 2.5/5[29]

South Park: Chef's Luv Shack was met with mixed to negative reviews. Aggregating review website GameRankings gave the Nintendo 64 version 50.88%,^[5] the Dreamcast version 50.21%,^[6] the PC version 47.50%,^[7] and the PlayStation version 41.95%.^[8]

References

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21. Gerstmann, Jeff (2000-01-13). "South Park: Chef's Luv Shack (PC)". GameSpot. Retrieved 2013-11-20.
22. Gerstmann, Jeff (1999-12-01). "South Park: Chef's Luv Shack Review (DC)". GameSpot. Retrieved 2013-11-20.
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29. "South Park: Chef's Luv Shack". PSM. 2002-06-13.

External links

• South Park: Chef's Luv Shack at MobyGames