South Park has developed an infamous reputation from not shying away from controversy, from violence to swearing and sex. According to Feargus Urquhart, CEO of Obsidian, the new South Park RPG will embrace everything that makes the animated series what it is.

“The first thing is this needs to be South Park, it needs to be outrageous, it needs to have crazy crap in it, it needs a lot of swearing, it needs a lot of children dying,” said Urquhart. “Things that happen are just crazy.”

“I’ll be honest, we’re not exactly sure how the ESRB is going to react to a lot of these things. The first thing is we’re not going to worry about it. The first thing is this needs to be South Park,” he added. “If we have problems, then we’ll deal with them. The goal is, let’s not restrict ourselves right now. Let’s make it South Park, make it nuts, then, as they say, cross that bridge when we come to it.”

It’s an unusual if famous license to be working under, but as it turns out, it was something Trey Parker and Matt Stone approached them over, not some middleman. “We were actually contacted directly by South Park. Normally that’s not how it works. Usually a publisher calls us and says ‘Hey, we have a license, we want you to make a game.’ This time it was the license holders themselves,” said Urquhart. “South Park as a license is kind of an interesting thing because normally when we’re working with a license it’s sort of ‘Here are a bunch of books, here are some films, here are some ideas, here’s a book that tells you what’s right, what’s wrong when it comes to licensing.’

“With South Park it’s very different because it’s Matt and Trey. It is Crispy, who was the art director on the show for ten years. It’s talking to the guys that actually do it and still do it every day. I mean, they’re still making the show after 15 years,” he detailed. “I think it’s going to make it really interesting for us making a South Park game – it’s not a re-imagining of stuff that already exists… it’s like this is yet another extension to everything that is South Park because it’s coming directly from Matt and Trey.”

Source: GameInformer