{"id":81750,"date":"2015-09-29T09:30:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T07:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=81750"},"modified":"2015-09-29T09:35:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T07:35:53","slug":"footage-emerges-of-the-south-park-game-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/81750-footage-emerges-of-the-south-park-game-that-never-was","title":{"rendered":"Footage emerges of the South Park game that never was"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-summary\">\n<p>Free-roam gameplay and a full combat system were only some of the features in the forgotten <em>South Park<\/em> adventure game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>There\u2019s some pretty amazing things floating our there on the hard-drives of former developers and studios, and one such project which has only just seen the light of day is a never-before-released build of an open-world, <em>GTA<\/em>-inspired <em>South Park<\/em> game.<\/p>\n<p>The origin of the game goes back to\u00a0the early 2000s, when Oregon studio Buzz Monkey was working on an officially licensed <em>South Park<\/em> game for the original Xbox. The game never made it through production and was scrapped.<\/p>\n<p>However, an early version of the project was left on an old Xbox debug console (which is used to play unfinished versions of games).<\/p>\n<p>The specific console was picked up by gaming YouTubers <a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink g-hovercard spf-link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC2vUKoTGIwNYq4LO0YWKPIg\" target=\"_blank\">HappyConsoleGamer<\/a> who managed to find the game file and access the discarded project.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s pretty interesting; so if you want to see footage of Cartman running around his house, driving a school bus and punching dogs in the face, check out the video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GOlqt0wPDxw?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Article originally published on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">MenStuff.co.za<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>More gaming goodness<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/81576-the-5-best-games-based-on-movies.html\">The 5 best games based on movies<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/81544-a-first-impression-of-halo-5-guardians-campaign-rocked-our-socks.html\">A first impression of Halo 5: Guardians\u2019 campaign rocked our socks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/81405-5-most-ruthless-killers-in-gaming.html\">5 most ruthless killers in gaming<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And that never will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":81752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15946,1966,2664,1271,1157],"class_list":["post-81750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-buzz-monkey-games","tag-games","tag-gaming","tag-south-park","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81754,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81750\/revisions\/81754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}