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For entertainment value I give it a five

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 58 / 61
Date: October 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Previous reviewers have noted that the adventure game-play in this game is non-existant. They are correct. There aren't any puzzles or strange problems that need solving, no pixel hunting. It takes a little while to become accustomed to the interface. The control system is funky and involves a lot of keyboard hot keys and little mouse manuevering. In that respect, it is different from the earlier Larry games. I originally disliked it, but it grew on me.

It's better to compare the style of this game to "Dead Or Alive Beach volleyball." A lot of shots of lucious co-eds and a couple of mini-games such as coin tossing, running away from various angry fathers, Deportation employees etc. It is also in no way shape or form, hard. Even the arcade sequences have the option of being passed over after losing about 5 times. For me, this was fine, because this kind of thing easily annoys and bores me.

And now to the game's strong point, its hilarious plotting. The characters are very well developed and like an interactive "National Lampoon" spoof, you run into all kinds of jokes just navigating the game's many locations. A lot of entertainment alone lies in eavesdropping on the various characters hanging around the campus. For instance, in the library there is a guy that is getting charged about two hundred dollars late fees for checking out 20 some magazines all on the subject of "tea-bagging".

The girls all have their various quirks and I found myself playing the conversation mini-game over and over again just to roll my mouse over the red pellets and hear all the outrageous, tacky and downright taste-less things that Larry ends up saying when he makes a mistake and hits a red pellet. (Each pellet he hits changes the conversation. If he hits the green ones, he'll be nice.) I found myself laughing out loud.

The girls you're chasing after are hilarious. I don't if I said that already, but I'll say it again. They range from a "band geek" to a foreign exchange student who speaks hilariously broken English, and there are tons of them. I'm thinking at least 12.

I have one final point to touch on. It goes with the maturity level of this game. This game is much more risque than the originals. It features frequent bad language and often goes beyond simply "hinting" at things. And while the game is loading, you are often presented with actual photographs of scantily clad women. Sometimes, I felt like I was flipping through play-boy and being a girl, I felt like I shouldn't be playing this.

But this is a really fun game. I actually just got done playing it. I played for about 4 hours because it's also mildly addictive and a great way to waste time.

So don't just play the game to beat it, because that's not where the fun is situated. Play around with it, walk around campus and see the sights.

Full of Sex and Nudity!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: October 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am having a lot of fun with this game.

It's full of raunchy humor, and funnier than many of the "teen comedies" that Hollywood had put out in recent years.

The "puzzle" gameplay of the original is gone, so this is probably more of an action game than an adventure game. Although the gameplay is repetitve, the story takes precedance over the gameplay, and you can even use abundant tokens to skip tough sequences whenever you want.

I've been playing the Xbox version of this game, but the PC version seems to be the version to get. The PC version is cheaper, and it's probaly more fun to cheat and unlock the additional nudity mode (a black censorship bar covers the bottoms of the girls who are frequently topless and/or having sex) and play that way from the start. Playstation 2 owners can also do that with cheats easier than X-box owners can.

Since the game is short, and gameplay isn't varied, some people are saying that this game is a rental, but that means that you'd have to play the console versions which have loading problems that the PC version doesn't have. Go ahead and buy this version for PC. It's a great value and delivers much more entertainment than, say, three genre DVDs.

I literally put down the great "Burnout 3: takedown" to play this game, and I'm not looking back.

Finally, the bonus disc that came with preorders of the game is totally useless, containing trailers and stuff that you can see on the web.

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.

An enjoyable sexual escapade & 1 of the best games of 2004!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

"Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude" is the first LSL game in about 8 years, and also the first to cross over from the personal computer to home video game platforms on the Playstation 2 & XBox. As a fan of old Sierra games (even though I was too young to have played the early LSL games), I was incredibly pleased to see the series resurrected and brought to new heights!

Important note: "Magna Cum Laude: Uncut & Uncensored" has now been released, and it features full frontal nudity and none of the pesky "censorship bars" that are present in this version.

Obviously, nudity is the main selling point of this game. Anyone who says otherwise is trying too hard to justify his or her purchase. The college co-eds are voluptuous, they are animated in a sexy, often provocative, ways, and the main quest of the game is to get Larry laid. Because of the time and attention put into creating realistic (though cute in an almost-anime way), this game is more titilating than any of the "Dead or Alive" series of fighting games, more fun than any of the WWE wrestling video games that feature the so-called "Bra & Panties" matches, and the females are more desirable than Lara Croft ever has been.

The women are mostly stereotypical "college girls" -- we have the head cheerleader Barbara Jo Bimbo (B.J. for short), the Italian castoff from "The Sopranos" Analisa, the Russian exchange student Zanna, the hot but nerdy college professor Beatrice, and so on. Chasing after each woman requires different approaches, and the result is never the same twice. And no, Larry *does not* get with all these babes. I hate to spoil it for you, but he only has actual intercourse a few times during the entire game. But every encounter is sexy, funny, and most importantly, packed full of eye candy!

The gameplay is fun. It is not very involving and has been criticized for being mostly a string of "mini-games." That is true; however, the variety of the games keeps it interesting as you progress through the storyline. The script is absolutely hilarious, and the comedy is equal to the nudity as a selling point for this game. If you are a guy, or even a gal who likes to laugh at guys, you will laugh at Larry and the things coming out of his mouth. He rambles on a lot, gets off-topic, tries horrible pickup lines, lies constantly, and even staggers around drunk and farts. If you've ever known a man who made you laugh simply because he was, to quote Steve Martin, "a wild and crazy guy," then you will enjoy the story of Magna Cum Laude. And the voice acting is wonderful; there is not a bad actor or actress in this entire game.

Now a few words on the Mature Audiences rating: This game is about sex, breasts, drinking, jokes, and other things guys find enjoyable. For some people, this is disturbing. Those people need to get a life. I can play Grand Theft Auto, in which my character is able to walk down any street and at any moment cut off the head of a pedestrian with a sword. Or gun down dozens of policemen, only to enter a cheat code and get away with it all at the last possible minute. Yet somehow, the ESRB (game ratings board) finds Larry's girlfriends more offensive when they drop their panties. Give us a break! Violence is much more detrimental to society & to teenagers than sex is, and yet we still can't get over our fear of pixelated private parts. It's ridiculous!

All in all, I give "LSL: Magna Cum Laude" a totally positive recommendation to anyone old enough to purchase it. It is definitely one of the best games of 2004 simply because it is like nothing else on the market today: a fun, sexy romp through college life. 5 stars! 2 thumbs up! Just buy it!

Not the same as before but still fun...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 19 / 21
Date: October 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is of course a lot different from the old LSL games. I have all of the LSL games and I couldn't pass on the opportunity to have this one of course.

Adventure games died a couple of years back when Sierra (my favorite company in adventure games) decided they were going into action games and leaving adventure behind. This game cannot be called an adventure game as it was like the first LSL games.

This being said, I find the game pretty amusing. It's still in the same spirit that this loser tries as hard as he can to pick up girls. You can only feel sorry for him. The basis is still fun to play with. Like everyone else said, you hae to go through mini-games in order to advance in the game. That is why this is not an adventure game. This is no pick-up and use objects. You don't really need to think, you just need good hands.

The mini-games do sometimes get boring. There are variations of the same game but they all come down to 4 or 5 games overall. The one I like least is the conversations. Like someone already said, you have to play the game to be able to say intelligent things so you sometimes miss the conversation so much you are concentrated on the game. And you miss out on all the animation since you have to look at the game.

In spit of that, I think the game is still pretty fun. It brings back a lot of memories of the old LSL games and the fun I had with all the Sierra games. I would just hope that adventure could come back but the attention span of children today is so small that you cannot have adventure games like before where you have to think about what to do next...

P.S. With all the technology today, I would have thought that we would have Larry almost looking human and girls looking pretty good. In this game, even though you do see some nudity, it's still only animation and the girls don't look or feel real...

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!

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!

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.

From a now college student who grew up on the original games

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: October 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As a teenager I would play the original Leisure Suit Larry games (all of them) and I loved them. Then I saw this. I couldn't believe it. A LSL game in college!!! I love how much this game shows what college is really about. The graphics are great, and the mini-games are fun, especially the beer pong :)

PARENTS BEWARE: If you have kids that live away for college, you might want to pass on this one. It'll make you want to pull your kids out of college!

Adult Fun, Adult Theme, this cool game is for adults mom.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: October 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

"Mother's Against Video Game Violence" eh? And here I was convinced that Norman Bates killed his mom. I crack up when some self-important fool comes online and tells everybody what human nature is "supposed to be". We're all supposed to pass this game over because miss high-and-mighty mommie dearest is "against it". HA!

I belong to a group too. It's called "Adult Gamers Against Mothers Who Want Game Manufacturers To Do Their (bleep)ing Job For Them." Deal with it; games have ratings for a reason, the same as DVD's Films and TV shows- control your kids! Don't try to cut the grownups out of their fun because of your delicate sensibilities! Enough said.

This is a fun game *for young adults* who have the maturity to put this stuff in it's proper perspective. I don't think it's better than the O.G. Leisure Suit Larry-but I liked it and I think that people who are not familiar with the original LSL games will love it, so sorry mom-I guess you'll just have to tell your kids what they can and can't play until they are old enough to tell you where to get off.

I bet it will really tick her off to learn that "Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude Uncut and Uncensored", an Adults-Only-rated version of a game, (which is already for adults only), is available now. LOL.

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