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Christ almighty...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 56 / 89
Date: September 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Who are these people who review and praise a game that hasn't even come out yet! Yeesh.

The reviewer below says that it should be as good as the previous Larry games well there's something you should know.

The Leisure Suit Larry series was created by Al Lowe who made every title until he and hundreds others were fired by Sierra.

Al Lowe had NO contribution to this title, (Even though Sierra said he would be involved!) this title is the concotion of a third party developer who have never made an adventure game in their life. From previews I've heard the game is alright but it's obvious that is hasn't got the distanct influence Al Lowe gave his games to make them personal and fun. Another critcism I heard is that it relies too much on nostalgia.

For what it's worth, I'm not getting the game until Al Lowe gives his apporval. I'd advise fans do the same, but please don't praise a game you haven't played yet...

Or is this guy below me a marketing goon?

Funny but repetative

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: October 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The game has good dialogue and jokes but the game requires a few mini-games to be played over-and-over to succeed at any task. A big flaw is you look more at a mini-game (directing your swimming sperm around conversation obstacles) during dialogue than watching the animation. That same game can be used for entertainment because hitting certain obstacles can lead to a very funny conversation. It's much like to LSL's of the past but with better graphics. I'd give it 7 out of 10, fun but can be annoying.

you can almost smell the polyester

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 18 / 19
Date: October 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well, I bought the game yesterday and played it quite a few hours into the night. The downside was my sucky Intel graphics card barely keeps the screen clear arter the first hour or two. The game did warn me about that beforehand. I tried playing it in a computer window rather than full screen but that lagged it like crazy.
Soooooo, for those of you WITH a decent graphics card, here's my overall report.
The mini-games in the overall game itself fall into one of five types:
1) The conversation game where your game character is a sperm that you have to move around vertically to grab happy faces for Larry to say something nice, while avoiding the red icons that either make him say something stupid or make him more drunk, making the control of the sperm near impossible. This, in my opinion is the most frustrating of the games.
2) The dancing/trampoline game where 'up', 'down', 'left'', 'right', and 'button' icons skim across the bottom of your screen and you have to hit those keys ('button' being the enter/return key), in the right order at the right time to win the competition and impress your opponent to gain confidence for Larry (and sometimes money).
3) The bartending game is much like the previous one only you have the left, right, up, and down icons on the screen in four circles and you have to hit them when they light up.
4) The 'quarters' game which, for veteran college residents, plays just like Quarters at your local kegger. I suggest holding the quarter just below the opponents' neck level and toward the left edge of the glass.

5) Anyone remember the old video game 'Tapper'? Well, it's in this game too. You'll either be serving drinks at a bar, handing out flyers, or feeding monkey chow to the monkeys... quite challenging.
There are a LOT of flashback jokes throughout the game. The most disturbing of which being Larry's fairy godmother looking like Ron Jeremy (no, it's not his voice).

There are several strip versions of most of the games; however, a 'censored' sign covers up the privates. You have to go through all of the game before the option of getting rid of those signs is given to you, and even then, you have to get 269 secret tokens in order to activate it.

If any of the missions start getting on your nerves, you can 'wimp out' which takes 4 to 6 tokens away from your stash but it allows you to go to the next mission. In my opinion, of all of Larry's conquests, Morgan is the toughest group of missions.

In Larry's Black Book, you'll find his current objectives, conquests, and purchased wardrobes. The wardrobes are very important in later missions, especially the accessories that go with the outfit. No functional value, mind you, but needed to impress the ladies.. uhhh, women... except Koko.

The reason why I'm explaining all of this is because the morons at Vivendi didn't bother including an instruction manual with the 4 game cds. It took me a long time to figure out how to change larry's clothes (third tab in Larry's Black Book: click on the outfit, and hit the escape button).

Overall, a very fun game. If you're incredibly skilled, you can come up with several different conversations in one mission.

Warnings: nudity (duh), profanity, artificial phallic flinging, art disappreciation (later level of Larry urinating on paintings at a gallery), and mind-numbing frustration, major flashbacks for those of us over 25.

It's worth the $30 for the pc version but I don't know about shelling $45 for the ps2 and xbox versions.

Have fun!

Love this game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: October 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was a big fan of the old Al Lowe games, so I was a bit hesitant when I went to but my copy and was told Al Lowe wasn't involved. However, after just a couple of hours of playing I can tell you that this game is without a doubt the funniest game I've played in a long, long time. Also, if you are not a hardcore gamer you'll should have fun with the minigames, even though they do get a bit repetitive. This game was well worth the $30, some of the stuff that Larry says had me busting a gut. Great game to wind down with after a bad day at work.

Take care for the costs

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 22
Date: October 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game and I had to call for technical support because it was not working and first thing I discover I need a new video card because if you don't have a card that support lighting it will not work, this is not fair because it's not specify when you purchase the game...

Close, but no cigar

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: October 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the first Larry game in years, and even though Larry's creator was not involved in this project, the overall 'feel' is the same. Sierra chose this time to make a major change in the gameplay and instead of the classic adventure, everything in the game is based on mini-games you have to play.

So, how is this game? Well, let me start first with the good things. The dialogues are absolutely hilarious. Graphics are excelent and most of the characters in the game look either really funny (big head Larry, for example) or really sexy (well, except when they are naked ...). Like in the old Larry games, the final goal is the same: you always get to have the girl in your bedroom, then - of course - something funny happens. Some of the situations are similar to other Larry games, but they still are funny enough to play. Heck, you almost pitty the little sucker for losing so many times. But, in the end he has his way: he has to choose between 3 girls (a cheerleader, a geek and a freak) and depending which one you choose, you get a hardcore ending (maybe too hardcore, if you choose the freak, but worth a laugh).

Now, for the bad part. In order to advance in this game, you have to win mini-games. There are no puzzles, no inventory per se, just solving same mini-games, over and over. Some of these mini-games are extremely hard, if not impossible to win. For example, you have to hit buttons in order (40 times in total) and can only make 5 mistakes. But the buttons change sometimes like 2-3 times per second, making it a 3 second mini-game. Other games are Tapper, Pong and others.

Fortunately though, you can always choose to 'wimp out' by using tokens you find everywhere in the game. Unless you plan to see all the girls you talked with naked in the game (uncle Larry will ask you for 269 tokens if you want that), then you should have plenty of tokens to avoid the frustration of these impossible games and pay the 5 tokens to move on. Towards the end of the game, this becomes a must, because of the insane difficulty.

If you want to get more tokens than you find, you can also go back to some segments you already played and play them again, for extra tokens. Unfortunately though, this adds to the whole 'not again?!' feeling that this game will give to you. After playing the same mini-game for 20 times, you will not be happy to see you have to play it again, in 5 minutes.

To this, should also be added that this game has the most unresponsive controls I have seen in quite a while. Some segments are impossible only because of the slow response time of the controls.

Overall, this game is a blast, if you use the tokens to avoid the frustration. The sexual situations are hilarious and same goes for the dialogues. Because there is zero replayability once you finish the game, I would not recommend buying it. With maybe 15 hours of gameplay, this could be a great rent for XBox or PS2.

Ohh Larry, your blood dint get to your nephew...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I played Larry Laffer back in the day... you would laught your heart out. You would f*** prostitutes, you would play pocker, you would help girl get liposucktions... it was all out fun. But this game lacks that fun factor... you can easily pass a few hours on it but its just not the same... the jokes are not that funny as the old ones... the adventures arent that challenging or funny either... I mean you want a game to entertain you for 5 hours tops... buy it... but DONT EXPECT LARRY LAFFER... this is just plain larry lovage a kid with a boring life who will never amount to his uncle's character charisma

Well, it was SUPPOSED to be for my boyfriend

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: October 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

My boyfriend went away to college leaving me in the hell hole of highschool and when I saw this game, I thought it would be be the perfect christmas present for him to distract him from all booty on campus. He is a computer game lover and well, a man, if you know what I mean.
My brother had the last Leisure Suit Larry that came out in '97 and our mother threw it away. That was before I could really understand all the humor except for the fact that the pointer was a condom. So Magna Cum Laude (love the subtitle!) was sitting there and my curiosity got the best of me and I had to see what it was all about.
I LOVED IT!!! It is completely geared towards men but I could definitely appreciate the humor. I need to go out and buy another one for my boyfriend now! My mother even finds it funny now that she doesn't have to protect our innocence. The minigames get boring but the video interludes are full of fun and sex, what else could you want!

You will bust a gut...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: October 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

as many others have said, the mini games will get dry after playing them so many times.. eventually you will start to master the game of quarters and figure out ways to get out... now for all those who have played LSL8, i know that i was sore that Larry Laffer was not the main character and Al Lowe was also missing.... however sierra did do a good job on this game in terms of awesome graphics, gameplay, and nudity. (btw you can hex the file to unlock nude mode early in the game)... it is well worth the 30 bucks compared to the newer games out there and i would reccommend this game.. even my g/f made her own save and started playing.. she busted a gut laughing on the jokes because she never played a LSL game...

Leisure Suit Larry- The Next Generation

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: October 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

In the early to late 90's there was a computer game series that took raunchy fun in a game to levels that could virtually never be imagined (of course before the ESRB ratings system was initiated)and raised the ire of stuffed shirts all around the country. That series was Leisure Suit Larry, where you played as a lounge lizard on a quest to get laid.

Now nearly a decade later and the original creators of the LSL series, Sierra, are following in the footsteps of several game companies reinventing classic characters for a new generation of gamers by releasing LSL: Magna Cum Laude (by the way, for those curious the phrase means "with full honors".

In this new game you take on the role of Larry Lovage, the nephew of the original Leisure Suit Larry, Larry Laffer. Larry has been in college for seven years (which ironically is how long it has been since the last original game was released) and still continues to follow in his uncle's footsteps by trying his best to get laid. He learns that a popular dating show is on his college campus and he goes on a series of quest to try to bed down the ladies he meets throughout the game by playing through a series of mini-games.

The games involve either a)Using a sperm to guide Larry through a conversation, b)Dancing or trampoline jumping by matching the directions on your controller, c)Playing quarters, d)tossing out fliers, e)playing a drink mixing/spanking/makeover game by hitting an assigned button within seconds, and more. Also by drinking in the game you will get smashed but don't worry...if you need to sober up for any reason you do have the choice of finding a nice little spot to relieve yourself (funny how a certain song from the first season of Chappelle's Show kept popping into my head...tee hee).

Success in games can earn you confidence and/or money, but running a Perfect in any game will also earn you Secret Tokens, which can be used to buy special features like special load screens, strip versions of games, nude models of the girls in the game (yes there is nudity in the game...YES!!!), and more.

The humor is somewhat raunchy and downright hilarious, including one game that will definitely make you laugh out loud the next time you watch "Grease". And the girls (both virtual and their real-life counterparts, shown through the loading screens, range from alright to seriously sexy)are fun to pass through their missions (Harriet makes Michelle from the American Pie movies look like a rank amateur and Ione alone will have you howling with how it ends).

The games do get a little repetitious, especially if you lose repeatedly (and it will happen as you progress further in the game as they get much harder), but the dialogue is funny to hear as you replay a mission again for fun or to recover from a loss. But if you like a video game that allows you to get a little T&A, sex and more girls than your average slumber party, get reasy to try to graduate Magna Cum Laude (note the double-entendre) with Leisure Suit Larry.

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