Leisure Suit Larry to return this spring

By Ellie Gibson Published 23 February, 2009

Codemasters picks up the licence.

It looks like the latest Leisure Suit Larry title will see the light of day after all, THANK GOODNESS.

Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust was originally due to be released by Vivendi before the company merged with Activision Blizzard last July. Astonishingly Activizzard declined to pick up the title, and cast Larry out.

Following what must have been an insane bidding war, Codemasters is now set to publish the game. According to a new page on the company's website, Box Office Bust will be released for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 this spring.

This time around, Larry is a movie mogul. He sends his nephew, Larry Lovage, to spy on a rival movie studio who he is convinced is spying on him. Or something.

We're promised "hilarious mini-games" and an all-new director's mode so you can create your own "side-splitting movie sequences". There are also "ridiculous rip-offs of classic movies" including "Bytanic, Beefcake Mountain and Horror Coffin". The game features the voices of Carmen Electra and Shannon Elizabeth.

Thank you, Codemasters. THANK YOU.

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About Ellie Gibson

Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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Comments (16) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • BBIAJ #1 3 years ago

    Yay! Woot! etc, etc.

  • metalangel #2 3 years ago

    This ISN'T good news. Leisure Suit Larry stopped being good in 1991 with LSL5. Magna Cum Laude was a travesty.

  • Hamflank #3 3 years ago

    Ellie, the cynical sarcastic feminist!

  • OnlyMe #4 3 years ago

    metalangel: did you miss out on the superb Larry 6 (Shape Up or Slip Out) and 7 (Love For Sail)? Magna Cum Laude was Larry 8 (technically 7).

  • RobotRocker #5 3 years ago

    Someone is really looking forward to doing that review in a few months...

    Also, Magna Cum Laude. Terrible game and awful load times (Even on the PC version) but the writing was actually quite funny in places. The Dialouge sequences and cutscenes almost made the fiver I spent on it worth it. Almost. And it also raised the question of why we never saw some terrible licenced game of Road House. Virtual Swayze would have been worth it.

  • metalangel #6 3 years ago

    6 was okay, 7 less so. Pretty much all the Sierra adventures lost their direction in the early to mid 90s. I also don't understand why the women have stayed realistic while Larry has degenerated into an eight year old's body topped by a giant head with Steve Martin in Roxanne nose.

  • BBIAJ #7 3 years ago

    I actually quite enjoyed Magna Cum Laude, I was playing it just the other day on my 360 to embarass a prudish mate of mine.

  • kinky_mong #8 3 years ago

    " Leisure Suit Larry stopped being good in 1991"

    You mean it actually started being good at one point?

  • metalangel #9 3 years ago

    They were silly fun in the beginning, yes.

  • OnlyMe #10 3 years ago

    Imo, LSL7 could very well be the best in the series, fantastic atmosphere and great music, as well as decent puzzles and "story". Although I think LSL3 would take the crown if I were to rate the games for a list.

    And Larry was always the almost-bald short middleaged pervo depicted in the later games. Take a look at the covers of the first games. Short, big head, bald. The new games actually made it look closer to the original covers.

  • Dynamize #11 3 years ago

    I've said it before and I'll say it again, if there is no Al Lowe then there really is no point.

  • jlaakso #12 3 years ago

    I've been playing the first five lately, great fun. Cost next to nothing as a compilation.

  • metalangel #13 3 years ago

    You can't really think I meant the obviously stylised 80's artwork on the first two games' boxes as opposed to the in game graphics, can you? Larry was never a Chippendales dancer, but at least he looked like a human being in the games! His increasing deformity makes it harder to relate to him.

  • Daikon #14 3 years ago

    Larry should have died along with the original Sierra studios. This is nothing more than a walking corpse.

  • smelly #15 3 years ago

    Something tells me Al Lowe isnt involved and this'll be another crappola minigame collection like the last one was...

  • Arwin #16 3 years ago

    I hope for the best. I would pay $10 extra for a version that supports free text input though, as that is still one of the best parts of LSL1-3 for me today.

    Also, I think Rockstar should licence Liberty City and the engine for a LSL game. Should be perfect, most of the stuff you could do in LSL1 is in GTAIV already! (taking a taxi, buying "stuff", going to a bar, going to a pros, getting beat up, dating women, the way you die and then get back into the game (you could easily see the factory below the ground as similar to the hospital) etc. etc. The number of similarities between those two games is staggering. ;)
    Edited by 3 at 24/02/09 @ 13:26