A Lot or a Little?
What you will—and won't—find in this game.
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Positive Messages
very little
Any positive messages outnumbered by racy content.
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Positive Role Models
a little
While these boys are good friends and fight evil, they're not ideal role models in how they behave (including fighting) and speak (profanity, bathroom humor). Characters resemble their counterparts on animated South Park TV series. You play the "new kid" who works with his friends.
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Ease of Play
a lot
Simple controls, easy to learn.
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Violence & Scariness
a lot
Turn-based combat against enemies, players use various weapons -- including blades, claws, magic blasts, physical melee attacks. Blood, some gore can be seen during and following a battle, including dismemberment and decapitation, but it's all very cartoon-like.
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Sex, Romance & Nudity
a lot
While cartoon-like, very racy sexual references, imagery, implications. Along with some nudity -- including bare breasts, buttocks, male genitalia -- one scene in a strip club has a character performing a lap dance. In a backroom of a church, Catholic priests pull rosary beads out of their backside (implying anal beads) and whip themselves. In another scene, a security guard reaches for lubrication behind his desk.
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Language
a lot
Very strong profanity, including words like "c--t," "f--k," "s--t," many others, including "douche bags." Title cleverly hides word "butthole" in it. Some racially offensive words heard and seen on-screen, including "nigg*," "coon." Lots of bathroom humor, including urination, defecation, vomiting, plenty of flatulence.
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Products & Purchases
a lot
Based on popular animated, controversial South Park TV series that covers lots of merchandise. Those who buy this game receive South Park: The Stick of Truth video game for free, as well.
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Drinking, Drugs & Smoking
a lot
Characters snort lines of cocaine, attack with beer bottles. One quest is to bring a marijuana prescription to someone.
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Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that South Park: The Fractured But Whole is a mature role-playing game (RPG). While cartoon-like, the game is violent, bloody, and gory (including scenes of decapitation and dismemberment). It has many scenes with sexuality and nudity, including a controversial scene with Catholic priests who want to molest a South Park character and pull rosary beads out of their anuses. There's also a scene in a strip club where players perform a lap dance on other characters. The game features strong profanity and scenes of drug use (along with a mission tied to delivery of narcotics). Finally, there are comments made about movements like Black Lives Matter, along with some potentially offensive racial comments, including words like "nigg*" and "coon" (though both aren't used derogatorily). In fact, the game lets you choose the difficulty for your character by sliding the color of your skin from white to darker to make life "harder" (like the TV show, there's social commentary mixed with satire here).
What’s It About?
SOUTH PARK: THE FRACTURED BUT WHOLE is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone -- the same duo behind the hit animated (and controversial) television series. This new game tells of rising crime in South Park, Colorado, so the town needs new heroes to come to the rescue. Eric Cartman takes advantage of the opportunity to create "the best superhero franchise ever" (also in the hopes of scoring a movie deal). As the South Park friends travel to multiple places and take on many quests, they'll engage in combat sequences against enemies in turn-based fashion on a gridlike battlefield. By choosing the right offensive and defensive moves, you could destroy evil and slowly unravel more of the story. This single-player game also features a revamped looting and crafting system, more options on upgrades and leveling up, hidden goodies, and hilarious (but oh so racy) situations the team find themselves in.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Parents can talk about violence in video games. Is the violence acceptable in this game because it's clearly cartoonish, or does it push the envelope of acceptable violence, just like the TV show pushes the boundaries of acceptable broadcast content?
Talk about the concepts of satire and parody. Comedy often tackles hard subjects by making the audience laugh about things they normally wouldn't, but do you think this is effective? Are there certain subjects that should remain taboo?
