First seen: 6 april 2009
Leisure Suit Larry® Box Office Bust™ is a comedy adventure about a guy looking for love in all the wrong places. Spending his spring vacation working at his uncle’s film studio, Larry is trying to establish himself as a "somebody" in Tinseltown. Written by Allen Covert and delivered by an all-star Hollywood cast, Box Office Bust is an innuendo-laden lampoon of fun with accessible gameplay with a huge range of challenges.
I don't think the game is as bad as the reviewer is making it out to be. It sounds more like he is offended by naughty language. I found the jokes and dialog pretty hilarious myself. But the missions are incredibly boring, the camera is probably the worst I have ever seen, and there are too many cut-scenes that interrupt you in the middle of a mission. There are also a lot of glitches that will cause you to restart your game. One mission I had to move a box so that I... Read more
Fun: Now, why did I not read the reviews before buying? I have been playing Larry games from the very beginning with the basic text gameplay, on to basic graphics and finally the Magna Cum Laude. All of them had some great elements of gameplay, the saucy without being OTT nudity and references along the Carry On lines... so interested to see the latest next-gen instalment..... oops! I thought that with the well know voice actors this could be a new classic, how wrong... Read more
I'll be honest with you right off the bat: I don't own this game. Having read numerous reviews of it I hired the game for a few days purely out of curiosity, because I simply couldn't believe that any game could be quite as bad as the reviews made out. In order to write a fair review I played it for a good long time, and guess what? It is that bad. And the rest. It's a shame because the original Leisure Suit Larry game was a fairly decent point-and-click adventure.... Read more