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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 36 Ratings

  • Summary: The Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust video game gives gamers an all-access pass to the glitz, glamour and gorgeous women of Tinseltown. In this 3rd person adventure game, Larry takes a summer job working on his uncle Larry’s movie lot doing odd jobs and trying to uncover a mole from anothther studio who threatens to air the studio's dirty laundry in the tabloids. Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust is a rollicking, innuendo-laden lampoon of Hollywood that features open world sand box game play that includes exploration, platforming, racing and puzzle-solving to complete missions. Additionally, the game features an all-new Directors Game that allows the player to create their very own "Larry Feature." True to form, Leisure Suit Larry Box Office Bust features sophomoric comedy and bombshell babes thanks to the writing talents of Allen Covert and an All-Star cast of actors and actresses, including Jay Mohr, Dave Attell, Shannon Elizabeth, Carmen Elektra, Patrick Warburton, Jeffrey Tambor, Nikki Cox, Peter Graves, Jane Lynch and Josh Keaton as the voice of Larry Loveage. [Sierra Entertainment] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 27
  2. Negative: 26 out of 27
  1. Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust fails reproducing the original spirit of Leisure Suit series. It fails from a technological and artistic point of view too, with tasteless humor and poor graphic. Variety is the only good aspect of the game, with some good sets and a high number of minigames, but it isn't enough to make it a good game.
  2. This Box Office Bust is a sample of how to change what worked completely for the worse.
  3. 42
    Not only does it take away from what the original games did so well, it fails to execute even the simplest of gameplay necessities. The platform jumping is horrendous, the combat mechanics are atrocious and sitting through some of the dialogue is just plain painful.
  4. While Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office or Bust does succeed in the execution and delivery of its smutty script, it fails on nearly every other account.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 17
  3. Negative: 15 out of 17
  1. JacobS
    10
    This game is superberb. The level design is flawless. Getting around is a breze. I canot get enough of the incredibly amazing camera. WOW i bough this game because it was mature but i pusshed the limits of mature. Expand
  2. PhillipH
    4
    Better than Cum Lauda. Graphics lovely, story interesting, music good and girls look excellent. The game play sucks at times.
  3. NeoVDR
    4
    I was very saddened by this game. Not that it was awful; I have seen games much, much worse than this. The whole game just feels "rough". While the comedy exists it's inconsistent. Truly funny bits that will have you on the floor in tears are interspersed with cliches and low level humor. This manages to diminish the game's only advantage. Gameplay-wise the game is atrocious with it's weird camera and clunky controls. The bad controls can be a game-stopper on more than one occasions. At one instance you have to chain an unbelievable number of jumps and because the combo chaining in this game is non existent I suspect that many users will end the game there. If not there then it surely will happen at the point when you have to fight 9 guards and do some jump chaining afterwards. The graphics are quite mediocre. Despite the use of Unreal Tech the game doesn't push any boundaries, hell it does not even reach the norm. And even though the graphics are not taxing still the pop in is evident. The best thing in the game is the audio, with great voice talent but dull tunes. This game had tons of potential yet somehow it lost it on the way. Even the smaller pricetag does not justify such mediocrity. Expand
  4. ShannonL
    3
    I was a big fan of the original games back in the day so i was eager to try out this new release... I had not played the last one as it was originally banned in Australia.. The humour IS there - it is as immature and purile as it ever was - its just a big shame that the gameplay mechanics dont match up.. 1st problem is that they have madean 18rated kids platforming game! - which wouldnt be toobad if the actual platforming mechanics work and they dont. I liked the game until i reached a point that required me to first of all fight 9 enemies one after another; this wouldnt have been an issue if the fighting mechanics worked - they dont. You end up tapping A over and over again trying to connect combos that just arent registering. Instead you end up getting beaten to a pulp by enemies whose health seems to regenerate faster then your own! After more attempts at the fighting part of the mission then you would believe - i finally managed to scrape past it only to reach the next part of the mission - Climbing the top of an electricty tower - which in itself wouldnt be a problem if the climbing mechanics worked. They dont. the camera is so poorly implimented and the controls so unresponsive that i ended up plummeting from the tower and dying... Which would be fine if there was a checkpoint system in place. There isnt. So i had to go back to the start of the mission - back to fighting the 9 guys one after another. As you can imagine it was too frustrating for me to try again and to behonest - is the main reason why i am trading the game back in as fast and as soon as i can. Im not going to focus on the other MAJOR problems the game has like framerate issues whernever you turn the camera, NPCs who walk straight through each other (in cutscenes) ridiculous loading times, lack of ambient audio when moving around, constant repetitive fetch quests etc etc etc. I was willing to overlook these technical issues and enjoy the game - but the mission i outlined above was the last straw for me! Im not bad at games and have been gaming since for well over 15 years - and this was the most frustrating gaming experience ive had since trying to load games via cassette on the original Commodore 64... Avoid. Expand

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