
Sure enough, the path to The Stick of Truth’s release has been long, with several delays. “We thought that was a really smart way to approach it. “Trey and I had approached this video game like a big, long movie,” Mr. They wanted the player to take on the role of the new kid in town. Stone’s original premise was to make a role-playing game, a genre that they have enjoyed since they were young.

The two-dimensional, construction-paper aesthetic of the series and a staggering number of characters and references have been transferred to the game.

Stone, along with Obsidian Entertainment and Ubisoft, will release South Park: The Stick of Truth, a game for Windows PC, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 devised to make players feel as if they were part of a “South Park” episode. But early licensed attempts were deemed failures by game critics and players and by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the show’s creators.

Since the premiere of “South Park” in 1997, fans of the show have wanted to play a quintessential companion video game.
