A brand new South Park video game appears to be like to be on the way in which from former BioShock builders.Revealed in a job advert by indie developer Question, the studio’s searching for a lead degree designer to contribute to “a new video game set in the world of South Park”. While few specifics are given and the game stays unnamed, the roles put up does point out candidates will need to have expertise with “multiplayer level design”, and can contribute to creating “levels choc full of aesthetically compelling moments and interesting tactical choices”.Question is a little-identified studio, however its web site notes that it consists of former builders of the BioShock series, Dishonored, and Thief: Deadly Shadows, in addition to those that labored on Obsidian’s 2014 South Park RPG, The Stick of Truth, and Ubisoft's 2017 observe-up Fractured But Whole. Both its co-founders, Stephen Alexander and Jordan Thomas, beforehand contributed to BioShock and BioShock Infinite, with Thomas additionally serving as artistic director at 2K Marin throughout the studio's improvement of BioShock 2. The put up suggests the game can be coming to the Xbox Series X, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, and PC, and mentions it is going to be constructed within the Unreal 4 engine.Question is finest identified for releasing The Magic Circle in 2015, a self-styled darkly comedic, surrealist first-particular person game that plonks you inside an unfinished fantasy world that’s caught in improvement hell. Most lately, it developed co-op horror game The Blackout Club, which has you and your buddies examine the monstrous happenings of a backwater city.
Analysis: a South Park immersive sim?
(Image credit score: ViacomCBS)Unlike many licensed video video games, South Park has had outstanding success with its gaming diversifications. Obsidian’s RPG, The Stick of Truth, was warmly obtained for not solely capturing the TV present’s trademark crude humor, however neatly wrapping it inside a stable flip-primarily based fight system and exploration segments. This title from Question has a lot to stay as much as, then, though the expertise inside the studio places it on good footing. It is perhaps a little an excessive amount of to anticipate the crew to pool their BioShock, Dishonored and Thief expertise to create a South Park immersive sim (and possibly too bizarre a thought), however the identify drops alone are tantalizing. Obsidian's South Park video games did brilliantly due to the expertise of the crew behind them. The identical might occur right here.However, the game additionally marks a few firsts for the license. For starters, it is going to be the primary South Park game to launch on the present console technology. Fractured But Whole, the final main launch that used the license, got here out a number of years earlier than the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S hit the market. But it’s additionally the primary South Park video game to be developed by a small, indie studio. Up to now, its game diversifications have been created by, or in partnership with, bigger builders.
