South Park Chef's Luv Shack

by Acclaim

Product Details

• ASIN: B0000296YJ
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches ; 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,737 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

GameSpot Review

The Luv Shack is a little old place where we can get together. OK, now that the token B-52's reference is out of the way, South Park: Chef's Luv Shack is a loose combination of You Don't Know Jack-style trivia and Mario Party-style minigames. The result is a game that manages to amuse with its questions, but the lame minigames, lack of varied speech, and general slow pace of the game make it short-lived fun at best. The game is set up like a game show hosted by everyone's favorite chef, Chef. Chef offers the player in control a choice in three trivia categories. The categories manage to be pretty funny, with topics like Sucks or Canadian, Giant Japanese Monster Bad, The 1991 Denver Broncos, and West Siyeeeeede Story. The questions are occasionally funny (for instance: The rock band Loverboy: Sucks, or Canadian? The correct answer is, of course, both), but after two or three days you'll start to see some questions repeated. Speaking of repeating, the game's speech gets old pretty fast. It uses all the real voices, but there isn't enough variation. The game's intro is the same every time, the announcer says the same things, etc. A few different intros and quick jokes would have gone a long way here. The load times are brief, but they really break up what should be a fast-paced trivia game. Having to wait between questions and minigame rounds really has a noticeable effect on the overall flow of the game. The minigames are extremely basic, some taking on elements of classic arcade games like Asteroids, Warlords, Super Sprint, Tapper, and Kickman. Others are oriented toward button mashing. After seeing each of the minigames once, you'll probably wish there were a way to disable them altogether. The trivia and the game's warped sense of humor are the main draws here, and the minigames really take away from the overall presentation. Graphically, the game looks just as you would expect it to. The simple style of the South Park characters is well represented, and the animation closely mirrors the show, as well, even in the minigame rounds. This is a game that you may want to rent, but the repeating questions, repeating speech, and dull minigames keep it from being a game you'd want to pop in whenever you need a simple party-style game.--Jeff Gerstmann--Copyright © 1998 GameSpot Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of GameSpot is prohibited.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars chefs fun shack, January 26, 2001

A Kid's Review

This review is from: South Park Chef's Luv Shack (Video Game)

now i want to get this straight, yes this game is repitive andit is ... but its fun. i bought this game after hearing dire reviews and i think its had too many bad reviews.the game is funny and i have had it for a month and only had 1 question repeated, and why are people bothered about the begining bit cause i always skip it. this is a really fun game to play with mates and on your own so dont listen to everyone who thinks every game should be as good as shenmue or tomb raider. its a fun game which grows on you so rent it then buy it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fun, March 15, 2002

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carlo Shapanka (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: South Park Chef's Luv Shack (Video Game)

this one of the ok south park games it is fun and the mini games are really cool one thing that would have been better is if they let you choose and play play the mini games

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Fun at first, boring and repetitive later!, January 17, 2002

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AFP "AFP" - See all my reviews

This review is from: South Park Chef's Luv Shack (Video Game)

This game is ufnny yes, and it is fun but when this is all you play, and when you play it alot it gets very boring. So many of the same questions over and over, and you can't choose the mini games if you want to play them, they are selected randomly after every round. Sometimes there are games you want to play and you can't because the comp never chooses them. The game gets very very boring when you've played it alot, take my word for it, if you can stand playing this game regularly for more than 3 months, go back to pre-school because thats where you belong.