''South Park: Chef's Luv Shack'' is a 2D game show-style party video game and is a sequel to the 1998 video game ''

South Park ''South Park'' is an American animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone and developed by Brian Graden for Comedy Central. The series revolves around four boys Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormickand th ...

'', itself based on the American animated sitcom of the same name. Developed by

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and published by Acclaim Entertainment, it was released in 1999 for the Dreamcast,

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and Nintendo 64. 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. ''Chef's Luv Shack'' was met with mixed reviews. It is the second of three ''South Park'' video game titles developed by Acclaim after ''

'' in 1998 and preceding '' South Park Rally'' in 2000.

Gameplay

In the game, the player takes the role of one of four characters,

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; Kenny McCormick; Kyle Broflovski; or

Stan Marsh Stanley Randell William Marsh is a fictional character in the adult animated television series '' South Park''. He is voiced by and loosely based on series co-creator Trey Parker. Stan is one of the series' four central characters, along with ...

; in a game show hosted by

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. 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 PlayStation version supports 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.

Reception

''South Park: Chef's Luv Shack'' was met with mixed to negative reviews. Aggregating review website

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gave the Nintendo 64 version 50.88%, the Dreamcast version 50.21%, the PC version 47.50%, and the

version 41.95%. Blake Fischer reviewed the Dreamcast version of the game for ''

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'', rating it two stars out of five, and stated that, "If you've already burned out on '' YDKJ'', and you need some game-show luvin', this is your only option, so you're stuck." '' The Sydney Morning Herald'' gave the game three stars of five stating, "Not for the solo player but a great party game. Unfortunately, it is short on questions."

References

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* {{Iguana Entertainment 1999 video games Acclaim Entertainment games Dreamcast games Multiplayer video games Nintendo 64 games Party video games PlayStation (console) games Video games based on South Park Video games set in Colorado Windows games Video games developed in the United States