Never-Seen-Before South Park Game Found on an Old Xbox Dev Kit

A fortuitous purchase of an old debug Xbox has unearthed an unreleased South Park game.

The existence of the game was first revealed in August 2014 by Qixmaster, who posted on the NintendoAge forum about it.

"Just purchased an Xbox dev kit and was going through the files and found two separate xbe binary files title spark," he said. "Game is something I have never seen or heard of."

At the time, Qixmaster noted that the gameplay is "very buggy and incomplete," but described it as similar to GTA and Simpsons Hit and Run. YouTube user HappyConsoleGamer has since conducted a more thorough examination of the South Park title and released a video about it. Watch below.

Given the unfinished nature of the code, the game frequently crashes and is filled with incomplete textures and mechanics. Still, it provides a look at a number of sections from the game, including a Find the Show quest inside Cartman's house.

A combat system where Carman is shown hitting dogs with dive kicks and Shoryukens is also shown, along with a vehicle section in a school bus, and a character test mission in which Kenny was playable.

At E3, Ubisoft announced the follow-up to South Park: The Stick of Truth titled South Park: The Fractured But Whole. The sequel is being developed by Ubisoft's San Francisco studio, instead of by Obsidian.

Series creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker are once again collaborating closely with Ubisoft on the project.

While The Stick of Truth riffed on the fantasy role-playing genre, The Fractured But Whole uses the superhero genre for its inspiration. The trailer makes obvious references to Marvel's Avengers movies.