There you have it- one of the best adaptations of a famous TV license I've ever come across. Virtual Stupidity does none of the above, but instead thrives as a refreshing, contemporary, relaxing exercise in moronic humor.' Some adventure games test your cunning, your skill, and your MacGyver-like aptitude in building a flare gun from toothpicks and oily cloth. Or picture the look on Beavis' face as he inflates his shorts with a gas station air hose. Imagine the two as they interrogate patients on a mentally-deranged ward at the local jail. What makes this game so entertaining (and I gleefully played it through to the end) are the actions and reactions of the intelligence-challenged duo to the people and objects around them. In fact, Virtual Stupidity is largely unoriginal in its approach to interactive adventures, and even some of the puzzles are secondhand fare.

You appropriately control the two half-wits with a simple set of commands, using a mouse-driven interface that looks and operates suspiciously like a LucasArts adventure game. To complete the effect, Viacom New Media borrowed the original voice talent from the series, which creates a very smooth transition from linear to interactive, and in the process one very funny game.Īll you'd expect from the eternally juvenile duo is here: fart jokes, painfully obvious sexual innuendoes, glorification of anything illegal or immoral, and the fruitless pursuit of girlfriends with one-liners such as, 'Hey, um, do you like to do, like, stuff?' As with the show, the writers' satirical genius puts these antics into a perspective that makes everything undeniably funny.

In fact, the crudely-drawn stylized artwork of the television series is accurately reproduced on the jagged lines of a computer screen. What's funny is that they don't look any better. GameSpot once again came through with a great (meaning I perfectly agree with) review of this highly underrated, 'campy' adventure game: 'Parents beware, the two relentlessly infantile voices of a lost generation have made the jump in screen resolution from MTV to your computer.

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