Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude - PC

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What a travesty! And it's a good thing for Al Lowe (the man behind the original LLL series) that he had nothing to do with this pathetic loser of a game. Leisure Suit Larry was meant to be an old fashion "adventure" (roll playing) game, the fun was in the interactions, the discovery of the use of various items you found, not to mention the humor of the game. Okay, we have the humor (kind of)..but we have just about nothing else. Shame on everyone for this rip off of a classic.

funny slap stick game with kiddy humor everyplace. i still had fun playing though. the price is right so i recommend buying it if you have nothing new to play.

Fun game and was delivered within the time frame stated.

Man I played these games when I was younger and couldn't resist when I saw this. Brought back some great memeories and still fun!

never worked right,gave it to a friend.

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.

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!