Summary
- South Park: Snow Day boasts 3D graphics and co-op play, a big departure from past titles but with familiar characters and humor.
- The game offers a lot of gameplay variety, with free-flowing combat, RPG class options, customization, mini-games, and special abilities.
- Snow Day will have online co-op play for up to four players, a feature absent in recent South Park titles, enhancing the gaming experience.
The recent announcement of South Park: Snow Day has captured the attention of the gaming industry, with modern South Park games having an excellent reputation for their blend of humor and genuinely engaging gameplay. Recent titles like The Fractured But Whole and The Stick of Truth left an impression that will be hard to match for Snow Day, but the upcoming project seems to have the bold ambition to potentially achieve this.
South Park: Snow Day is seemingly aiming to maintain the same themes as its predecessors while possessing drastically different core game mechanics, with its 3D art style being the most obvious deviation from past titles. It is clear that Snow Day is attempting to branch out the gaming experiences of the IP in a big way, and the upcoming game already has a tonne of confirmed features that fans may look forward to.
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South Park: Snow Day Boasts 3D Graphics and Co-Op Play
While many players praised the likes of Fractured But Whole and Stick of Truth for its 2D art style that was faithful to the show, Snow Day is going for a full 3D approach, with fans being able to explore a snow-covered South Park during an intense blizzard. Once again adopting the role of the New Kid, players will work alongside the iconic quartet of Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman to save the town from ruin.
Perhaps the most interesting confirmed feature of Snow Day is that it will offer online co-operative play, with multiplayer experiences being completely absent from recent South Park titles. Four players can fight alongside each other in Snow Day's co-op, with these roles being filled by AI bots in the absence of real players. Past 3D South Park titles have been criticized for feeling out of place for the franchise, but the gameplay shown within Snow Day's trailer seems to have mastered the perfect level of tradition in its 3D graphics.
South Park: Snow Day Has a Lot of Gameplay Variety
South Park: Snow Day still possesses the same RPG themes as Stick of Truth, but its 3D art-style and co-operative play has switched out turn-based combat for free-flowing combat engagements. Players will be able to equip different melee and ranged weapons in their bid to save South Park, with attacks being more ferocious if they are coordinated well with allies.
These weapons will lean into a selection of RPG classes that the player can adopt, with players being able to offer different combat roles to form a potent co-op party. Like past South Park games, players will also be able to fully customize the looks of their playable characters, with a huge range of cosmetic items being unlocked through combat and exploration.
It is also confirmed that South Park: Snow Day will have a variety of mini-games to supplement its core gameplay, with its official trailer showcasing one that takes a trading-card style similar to Hearthstone, with chosen cards having a direct impact on combat. Snow Day will also allow players to wield a range of special abilities to turn the tides of battle, which will be key to fending off the hordes of enemies that a party can face at any given time. South Park: Snow Day is set to release for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC, and Nintendo Switch on March 26, and its already-confirmed features are painting the project to be an ambitious step forward for the franchise's gaming identity.
More features for South Park: Snow Day are likely to be announced in the coming weeks.
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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
