Summary
- South Park: Snow Day DLC adds new weapon types and game modes for enhanced gameplay.
- The Good Times with Weapons pack introduces ninja stars and stealth-based upgrades.
- The Nichole's Home Brew pack offers new rules to increase difficulty and strategy options.
Multiplayer action-adventure game South Park: Snow Day has launched two different DLC packs that provide a lot of new ways to play, including the addition of a stealth-oriented weapon type. The arrival of the Good Times with Weapons and Nichole's Home Brew Story packs mark the first new DLC for South Park: Snow Day since early August.
South Park: Snow Day was released on March 26, 2024, and a steady stream of 13 different DLC packs has already been released since its launch. The game continues the story set up by previous South Park games The Stick of Truth and The Fractured But Whole, placing the player once again in the role of The New Kid and having them interact with fantasy-themed versions of the Colorado town's kids, like Princess Kenny and a wizard version of Cartman. However, unlike those turn-based RPGs, Snow Day shifted gameplay into a four-person, squad-based action-adventure format with parties made up of a combination of humans and bots.
While the game launched with just three melee weapons to choose from, previous DLC packs have added sickles and a hammer to mix up play style. With the Good Times with Weapons pack, named after the celebrated, anime-inspired episode of the animated series, players can augment their magic wand ranged weapon to toss ninja stars at their enemies. Adding to the stealth-based weapon feature in South Park: Snow Day, additional upgrade cards will appear as players progress through levels, giving them options like increasing their speed, dealing more damage with each consecutive hit, or turning invisible to enemies for a short time. The pack also comes with five new cosmetic options, including a ninja star to the eye, and one emote.
What's in the New South Park Snow Day DLC Packs
Good Times with Weapons
- Ninja Stars Wand variant
- Hat: Ninja Hat
- Facial Features: Ninja Mask
- Tunic: Ninja Tunic
- Hat: You're a dog!
- Facial Features: Ninja Star to the Eye
- Emote: Ninja Star Emote
Nichole's Home Brew
- New Game Mode with five sets of Home Brew rules
- Hat: Kyle's Hat
- Hat: Stan's Hat
- Hat: Princess Kenny Hair & Tiara
- Hat: Cartman's Wizard Hat
- Head: Dark Matter Eyes
- Tunic: 'Board Girls Gaming Club' Shirt
- Nichole's Horns
In addition to the new weapon to augment squad combat styles when playing South Park: Snow Day with a team of friends, the Nichole's Home Brew Pack brings five new sets of rules that players can select from to increase the game's difficulty and develop new strategies around. For example, the Air Superiority rules give players a permanent Moon Shoes buff, increasing the damage dealt by ranged weapons while nerfing melee attacks, while The Floor is Lava places damage-dealing zones all over the games' maps. This pack comes with seven different cosmetic additions, four of which reflect the main character's in-game hats.
Those longing for the days of the more classic turn-based South Park games are also in luck if they own an Xbox Series X or S. South Park: The Fractured But Whole came to Xbox Game Pass on October 16, letting fans of the series catch up on the history of The New Kid and experience the series' gameplay in a much more different format.
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 60 /100 Critics Rec: 25%
- Released
- March 26, 2024
- ESRB
- M For Mature 17+ Due To Blood, Strong Language, Violence, Mature Humor
- Developer(s)
- Question
- Publisher(s)
- THQ Nordic
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5, Unreal Engine 4
- Franchise
- South Park
WHERE TO PLAY
From South Park Digital Studios, the studio that brought you South Park: The Stick of Truth, South Park: The Fractured but Whole, and South Park: Phone Destroyer comes the next chapter in the journey of the New Kid. Join Cartman, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny, in three-dimensional glory, to celebrate the most magical day in any young child’s life - a snow day! A massive blizzard has thrown the town into chaos and, more importantly, canceled school. Play with up to three friends, use matchmaking, or solo the game with ally bots and battle through the snow-piled town of South Park. Engage in frenetic, action-packed combat against warring factions in an all-new story where you make the rules. Equip unique weapons and deploy devastating, upgradable special abilities on a new adventure to save the world and enjoy a day without school. It’s a snow day, dude!
- Platform(s)
- PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S
- Genre(s)
- Action-Adventure
- OpenCritic Rating
- Weak
