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[TheChosen]

Alright. Many of us dont want to remember Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude. Mostly because its like throwing a bucket of spit to our faces (as were abandonwarerists). Still, I've heard some good stuff about this game, like its at least somewhat funny.

In any case, its probably better than this. Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust makes it even worse.

Originally Posted by Al Lowe

MetaCritic's current average of all reviews is 28 out of 100!

GameSpot gave it a 2.5 rating of "Terrible." "some of the foulest dialogue you'll hear in a game. But most of it is far from entertaining, let alone funny." "a cesspool of foul language and ugly personalities" "terrible gameplay is stretched thin over hours and hours of redundant, repetitive quests" "a bad purchase even at its discount price"

EuroGamer gave it 2 of 10. "you will want to use heavy machinery to crush everyone involved in its creation, from the person responsible for drawing Larry's hateful face to the person who put the staples in the manuals." "It's impossible to understand why Codemasters plucked this from the rubble of the Vivendi-Activision merger, like a shellshocked Blitz victim retrieving the dead cat instead of the family jewels." "hateful, toss, stupid, tedious, terrible, dreadful, pathetic. That about sums it up, but just to be clear: do not buy this game. You will not only want your money back, you will want reimbursement for the electricity consumed by your Xbox 360 in the six minutes it took to realise you had made a horrible mistake."

TeamXbox gave it 4/10. "If this version of Leisure Suit was a bit more polished on the technical side, it probably wouldn’t have been that bad. But add the tech anomalies in with the generic gameplay and lack of strong, sexual zest and you’d be better off getting your jollies from a National Geographic."

CheatCodeCentral gave it 1/5 rating of "avoid." "gameplay that will usually leave you more frustrated than a Saturday night alone" "environments are rather bland and stale" "lackluster gameplay" "the story and jokes fall flatter than Rob Schneider’s career" "the jokes could have been funnier if the actors at least seemed like they cared enough about them to tell them right" "looking at the character models, thank God there’s no nudity in the game." "Box Office Bust should never be played, it should be used as a paperweight."

IGN gave it a 2.2 rating of "Terrible." "Apparently the only real joke in Box Office Bust is on the player." "Lots of dialogue, very few laughs. It's a generally witless kind of humor. The camera does its best to ruin everything." "The animations are strange and the character models stranger. Reams of sight gags, nothing memorable." "a bunch of different gameplay styles implemented with the finesse of a blind giraffe" "sloppy third-person platforming, tedious stealth sequences," "horrible camera and control systems" "uncomfortably unfunny dialogue spewed from the lips of entirely unlikable characters."

My Take

Thank you, VU Games, for keeping me completely away from this latest disaster!

From what I can figure out from short video (God. Doesnt that director look lot like Al Lowe?), its yet again minigames! Like in this age there's not enough of those.

Good points? At least the original Larry Laffer makes an appearance. This game seems to be two buckets of spit to our faces and at least 5 slaps.

[MugsyNJ1]

The real Larry Laffer died after setting sail with Captain Thygh in Love For Sail. The Box Office Bust Larry is an imposter.

[Tulac]

Bring the Larry franchise back to Al Lowe.

[red_avatar]

I decided to give Box Office Bust a go because I was curious to see what they did with it. The game does use the Unreal 3 engine so the graphics aren't that bad. Too bad everything else is.

I don't get it. Are publishers that stupid? Leisure Suit Larry was about two things: sex and laughs. Magna Cum Laude at least managed both somewhat (the first more than the last) but this? It's a joke. For starters, it's indeed all foul language but none of the teasing of nudity or the promise of sex which was the whole idea behind LSL.

Heck, the typical adventure structure helped a long way as well and at least the puzzles had a function: you were actively trying to impress girls. Minigames aren't exactly as effective, are they?