South Park Video Game ‘The Stick Of Truth’ Release Date Delayed Until Spring [VIDEO]

The creators of "South Park" have had a thing with delays lately. First, they miss their deadline for the premiere of a new episode of the show. Now, it turns out their new video game, "South Park: The Stick of Truth", will be delayed yet again. Originally set for release almost two years ago, it turns out it won't be available until March 4, 2014 in North America and March 6 of that year in Europe. "We always wanted the game to feel like you're actually in an episode of South Park," creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker wrote on a Ubisoft blog. "Getting the game up to the crappy standards of the show has been a real challenge and we're excited to say it's taken way longer than we thought it would." Check out a link to seven minutes of gameplay below.

Despite the sarcasm of the creators, early reviews of the gameplay are glowing. IGN wrote back in June that it was "amazing how this game has somehow gotten even more layered and impressive over the past year." Aside from the typical filthy mouths of the characters, according to the IGN review, gamers should expect potty humor of a different variety. "At one point, you create an attack item by going into the boy's bathroom, lowering your pants, sitting on the urinal, and, um...'dropping a kid off at the pool'," wrote the site. "...you then scoop out your 'creation' and save it in your inventory, hurling it at your enemy later for massive damage."

The creators' comments appeared alongside those of Ubisoft North America's president, Laurent Detoc. "Within three weeks after acquiring the game, we sadly realized we had to turn this thing upside down if we hoped to deliver the experience everybody wanted," said Detoc. "It's been such a major overhaul to get to the point where we are that we couldn't let it go, even if that meant missing December." According to IGN, the RPG written by Stone and Parker and developed by Obsidian Entertainment was originally slated for December 2011, to be published by THQ. But since then, the release window has moved, THQ has shuttered, and publishing rights to the title - in which gamers will take up the role of the new kid in South Park - have gone to Ubisoft. Anticipation levels for it have remained high, however, despite the delays.