Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust

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I had to write this review since EVERY review I found before has thus been negative or downright brutal. Take it from soneone who ACTUALLY beat the game and didn't play it for five minutes because they were pissed off and don't know what a Larry game is all about. This game is fun! Granted, there are parts where the graphics can get choppy or the controls are frustrating. But as a whole the game is worth the play. If you are a LSL fan you are doing a disservice to yourself by not playing Larry 9 (I still haven't found the missing floppies for LSL 4...lol).

The Game does start out slow. Once you get to the first dreamscape (the Western) I guarantee you will be hooked. The story line is entertaining and Loveage keeps you laughing with his one liners and off-the-wall behavior.

No this one isn't written by Al Lowe, and no you don't get to play our beloved Larry, but it's fun nonetheless. There is a lot of crude humor, women in scantily clad outfits, and tons of sexual innuendos and puns (yes buns too my fellow pervs).

The bottom line is simple, if you are a fan of LSL, you need to give this game a shot. The graphics are better than any we have seen before, but still hold that comical and cartoonish tinge to 'em. True, there is no full frontal nudity or gratuitous sex scene depicted in the cutscenes like a lot of games are heading towards, but hell that never stopped Larry fans before...we're used to not scoring right? Only in the game right? ;) I promise you though, this one has a "happy ending."

To get there though is tough, this is not an easy game; it took me over twenty hours to reach the end and there are several scenes or scenarios that you will probably have to do darn near 10+ times (maybe even closer to 20-30...lol).

But persevere and you won't be let down. You'll laugh and enjoy the ride...ahem... the whole way through. As Larry would say, "Oh yeah!"

The game also has the usual gambit of minigames/challenges incorporated inside. You won't be looking for secret tokens (YEAH BABY!) but instead have to seek out 100 Larry Awards (golden statues) hidden throughout the film studio. There are also numerous girls to try and score with and also several stunt races to complete for special awards. Even if you've beat the main missions in the game and reached the grand finale, you can still attempt to accomplish these challenges for hours of extra gameplay. Good luck fellow leisure suiters!

Be advised, I played the game on PS3 and had also tried it on the PC. For the life of me I couldn't get it to work properly on the PC with my controller. Using a keyboard was horrific and I don't recommend this at all. Go with the console version!

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The previous Larry's were great wry smutty humor with good game play. This game sucks! The game play is terrible, the animation is awful. I've managed to get the character stuck in a wall and between walls. You can't talk to other characters or look at objects like in the past games. I'm glad I only paid $3 yet I still feel ripped off!!

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What can I say?

Awful console port, awful controls, awful story, awful dialogs, slightly less than awful graphics.

And this comes from a devoted fan of the old PC Larry series from Sierra that I continue to love.

Sad, really.

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This is the worst game i have ever played. Clunky and unresponsive controls. Terrible camera angles. Nothing about this game is worth mentioning. I rented it to try and get an easy plat trophey. Little did i know i would be renting something that felt more like a chore to play. I could only make it through and hours worth of game play before i had to take it back.

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At long last, I've finally found it...I've finally discovered it. The worst game ever conceived by an established video game studio. Ever.

Ever.

There is simply no excuse for the production quality and design elements of this game. It's not just lacking a layer of polish like some games which are rushed out early by a company's publisher.. it's lacking anything remotely resembling a gaming soul. It's wretched to the point where I'm almost convinced the developers made the game the way it is on purpose... everyone sitting around, drinking, giggling, cheering as they come up with another aggravating gameplay feature with which to torture the unwary gaming populace. Truly, you really have to TRY to make a game this loathsome, this abhorrent, this... painful.

Nearly EVERYTHING in this game is just... WRONG. From the archaic, "now you can control me, oops lol now you can't" camera that refuses to show you anything you really need to see to the unbelievably rotten "combat" system that makes fighting an agonizing chore, to the PSX-quality textures and pop-up, to the totally uncessary inclusion of a hidden stamina meter that keeps you from sprinting for more than 5 seconds per minute, this game is just an abomination... a freak of gaming nature... an utter insult to the gaming industry's sensibilities. It's a steaming fecal nightmare delivered unceremoniously from the rotting bowels of Team17 Software onto the collective face of videogaming. Yes, the industry is now worse off from the mere existence of this game. If you've ever seen, played, or heard of this game, you've taken a step back in your own personal evolution.

Team17 should be ashamed of themselves. Go ahead guys, take off one or two or 15 years and go stick your heads in the sand on some uncharted Pacific island, until humanity has forgotten most of what has transpired here. Shame, shame, shame. SHAME ON YOU. And God help any of you who list this game as a past project in your resume/CV, as truly any hint of involvement with such trash should immediately have you blacklisted from participating in the development of any other video game, ever again.

There's no forgiveness, no rest for you, Leisure Suit Larry. Rot in turmoil, you insipid turd.

PROS:

-Nothing. Avoid like syphilis.

CONS:

-Everything