South Park: Chef's Luv Shack

South Park: Chef's Luv Shack is a 2D game show-style party video game based on the American adult animated sitcom South Park. Developed by Acclaim Studios Austin and published by Acclaim Entertainment, it was released in 1999 for the Dreamcast, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 64 and PlayStation. 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.

South Park: Chef's Luv Shack
Developer(s)Acclaim Studios Austin
Publisher(s)Acclaim Entertainment
SeriesSouth Park
Platform(s)Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation
ReleaseNintendo 64
  • NA: October 12, 1999
  • EU: October 31, 1999
Dreamcast, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation
Genre(s)Party
Mode(s)Multiplayer

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.

Reception
Reception
Aggregate score
AggregatorScore
GameRankings(N64) 50.88%[2]
(DC) 50.21%[3]
(PC) 47.50%[4]
(PS) 41.95%[5]
Review scores
PublicationScore
AllGame(PC) [6]
[7][8]
(PS) [9]
Game Informer(DC) 3.5/10[10]
(PS) 3.25/10[11]
GameFan(PS) 61/100[12]
(N64) 60/100[13]
GamePro(N64) [14]
(PC) [15]
GameRevolution(DC) C[16]
(PC) C−[17]
GameSpot(PC) 4/10[18]
(DC) 3.9/10[19]
GameSpy4.5/10[20]
IGN(PC) 5.5/10[21]
(N64) 5.3/10[22]
(DC) 4.3/10[23]
(PS) 2.1/10[24]
Next Generation[25]
OPM (US)[26]
PSM2.5/5[27]

South Park: Chef's Luv Shack was met with mixed to negative reviews. Aggregating review website GameRankings gave the Nintendo 64 version 50.88%,[2] the Dreamcast version 50.21%,[3] the PC version 47.50%,[4] and the PlayStation version 41.95%.[5]

Blake Fischer reviewed the Dreamcast version of the game for Next Generation, 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"[25]

References
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  8. Sutyak, Jonathan. "South Park: Chef's Luv Shack (DC) - Review". Allgame. Retrieved 2013-11-20.
  9. Baker, Christopher Michael. "South Park: Chef's Luv Shack (PS) - Review". Allgame. Retrieved 2013-11-20.
  10. Fitzloff, Jay (March 2000). "South Park: Chef's Luv Shack - Dreamcast". Game Informer. Archived from the original on 2000-10-26. Retrieved 2013-11-20.
  11. Fitzloff, Jay (2000-02-29). "South Park: Chef's Luv Shack (PS)". Game Informer. Archived from the original on 2000-06-05. Retrieved 2013-11-20.
  12. "REVIEW for Chef's Luv Shack (PS)". GameFan. 1999-12-01.
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  14. Scary Larry (2000-01-01). "South Park: Chef's Luv Shack Review for N64 on GamePro.com". GamePro. Archived from the original on 2005-03-18. Retrieved 2013-11-20.
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  24. Nix, Marc (1999-12-07). "South Park: Chef's Luv Shack (PS)". IGN. Retrieved 2013-11-20.
  25. Fischer, Blake (February 2000). "Finals". Next Generation. Vol. 3 no. 2. Imagine Media. p. 92.
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  27. "South Park: Chef's Luv Shack". PSM. 2002-06-13.
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