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Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 27 critic reviews
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Based on 22 votes
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Game Info
Publisher: Codemasters
Developer: Team17 Software
Genre(s): Adventure
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: M (Mature)
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Summary
The Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust video game gives gamers an all-access pass to the glitz, glamour and gorgeous women of Tinseltown. In this 3rd person adventure game, Larry takes a summer job working on his uncle Larry’s movie lot doing odd jobs and trying to uncover a mole from another studio who threatens to air the studio's dirty laundry in the tabloids. Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust is a rollicking, innuendo-laden lampoon of Hollywood that features open world sand box game play that includes exploration, platforming, racing and puzzle-solving to complete missions. Additionally, the game features an all-new Directors Game that allows the player to create their very own "Larry Feature." True to form, Leisure Suit Larry Box Office Bust features sophomoric comedy and bombshell babes thanks to the writing talents of Allen Covert and an All-Star cast of actors and actresses, including Jay Mohr, Dave Attell, Shannon Elizabeth, Carmen Elektra, Patrick Warburton, Jeffrey Tambor, Nikki Cox, Peter Graves, Jane Lynch and Josh Keaton as the voice of Larry Loveage. [Sierra Entertainment]
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What The Critics Said
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Everyeye.it
Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust fails reproducing the original spirit of Leisure Suit series. It fails from a technological and artistic point of view too, with tasteless humor and poor graphic. Variety is the only good aspect of the game, with some good sets and a high number of minigames, but it isn't enough to make it a good game.
Read Full Review >Vandal Online
This Box Office Bust is a sample of how to change what worked completely for the worse.
Read Full Review >ZTGameDomain
Not only does it take away from what the original games did so well, it fails to execute even the simplest of gameplay necessities. The platform jumping is horrendous, the combat mechanics are atrocious and sitting through some of the dialogue is just plain painful.
Read Full Review >TeamXbox
While Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office or Bust does succeed in the execution and delivery of its smutty script, it fails on nearly every other account.
Read Full Review >Meristation
Larry Loveage is the nephew of Larry Laffer, but he's not half as charming as his uncle. This new game offers completely new gameplay that doesn't suit the character, along with many technical issues that make it a repetitive, uninspired and not so interesting game. It forgets Larry's legacy and tries its own ideas, but with little fortune.
Read Full Review >WonderwallWeb
Overly repetitive, boring and childish. There is not enough going on to keep you hooked.
Read Full Review >Xbox360Achievements
Box Office Bust is one of the poorest games I have played on the 360 to date and I've played X-Men! The broken jumping and fighting mechanics zap out any sort of enjoyment you start to get from the title and the subtle humour of the old Larry games is nowhere to be found.
Read Full Review >Planet Xbox 360
To be completely honest and brutal, there is nothing to like about Box Office Bust. It is hard to find any game that is completely worthless, but this is thankfully one of a kind.
Read Full Review >games(TM)
Tedious, clumsy and uncomfortable to play, Box Office Bust is one of the least enjoyable platform games we've been subjected to this generation. [June 2009, p.123]
X360 Magazine UK
Terrible controls. [Issue#46, p.87]
GamingXP
I have played the Larry Laffer saga since the beginnings and I think if the developments of Leisure Suit Larry games continue in such this way, I already foresee the ending. The special charm with the erotic undertone has totally got lost in Leisure Suit Larry – Box Office Bust. Since Al Lowe leaves the Larry Laffer production, Larry as character isn’t the same again. The jobs become quickly boring, because the typical puzzle and combination tasks are completely missing. The new character does not offer the elegant macho charm, who can twist all ladies around the fingers. Larry Lovage looks clumsy, rude and cheeky.
Read Full Review >Gamers.at
Magna Cum Laude promised young adolescent players at least some (cartoon) nudity, but Big Office Bust has nothing to offer. Larry, what have they done to you?
Read Full Review >GameSpot
Mindless, repetitive gameplay and a truly atrocious sense of humor help Leisure Suit Larry live up to its name--it's a total bust.
Read Full Review >GameTrailers
A horrible joke in and of itself, if you buy Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust the joke will be on you. We can think of a good number of other uses for your two hands; and we're using our to give this stinker two thumbs way down.
Read Full Review >IGN
The lowest rating numbers here at IGN are reserved for games with nearly no redeeming qualities or interesting ideas, with next to nothing enjoyable to offer players, and which under no circumstances should be purchased by anyone. Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust is, without a doubt, one of those games.
Read Full Review >Cheat Code Central
The worst offense Box Office Bust makes is giving Larry something resembling a plot other than trying to get in the pants of the opposite sex. Instead of the simplest plots devices, we get a convoluted story with weak gameplay that never truly delivers on the funny.
Read Full Review >Eurogamer
It's not funny, it's not fun to play and it's less erotic than psoriasis. As the Smurfs would say: **** off, Larry.
Read Full Review >Eurogamer Italy
What a shame Larry, no chance to revitalize a such brilliant career. It's time to stop the show, before Sierra ruins what is still good in our memory. After more than 20 years of story, he deserves some rest. Go Larry, and don't come back!
Read Full Review >Eurogamer Portugal
It’s a crime to see how this series turned out, after a few titles with a quite good quality. This family of virtual seductive gigolos needs a reform, or maybe someone who revives the series from the ashes.
Read Full Review >Games Master UK
This is just awful. [June 2009, p.80]
GameFocus
I always try to find some positive beneath the negative. Unfortunately, Box Office Bust doesn’t deserve the try. It took away all the respect and love for the franchise I had left. Just like George Lucas tried to do with the Star Wars Holiday Classic, Codemasters should go out, find all the copies, bury them in the darkest place known to man, leave it there and never speak of it again.
Read Full Review >Gamervision
Awful controls, boring missions, a terrible camera, hideous characters, and juvenile, unfunny dialogue make Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust one of the worst games in recent memory, and, if there’s any justice in the world, will mark the end of this poor, abused franchise.
Read Full Review >Gamer.nl
Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust is without a doubt one of the worst games in history. There isn't a single characteristic in the game that is worth spending your money on. With the buggy controls, it's the king of crap. Under any circumstances, do not buy this game.
Read Full Review >Teletext GameCentral
One of the worst video games ever made - brutally unfunny and monotonously inept on every level.
Read Full Review >Official Xbox Magazine UK
The worst game on Xbox 360 to date. [June 2009, p.93]
Xbox World 360 Magazine UK
It's poorly designed and poorly made, and has the air of a game even the devs didn't care about. [July 2009, p.82]
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 3.3 (out of 10) based on 22 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
John S gave it a0:
What is this crup? The game sucks bad controls bad story, and makes shame on the great series
pillin re gave it a0:
-10 negligence, stupid decicions, only bigbubs, no funy, bad graphics, bisnes magament? .. jaja only crash!! return Al Lowe , everybody love your game and yor creativity, return the great, sexy, funy and creative game to us, get out the stupid people,
Ian K gave it a10:
This is one of the best games ever! I played for 2 days straight and never got bored! The graphics rock and the storyline is SO creative! Thumbs way up! A must buy!
Rodrigo C gave it a0:
Possibly the worst commercial game I've ever had the misfortune to play. Fails to deliver on any conceivable front - gameplay, graphics, humor, puzzles, even titillation. Even Magna Cum Laude got at least two of those right, some of the time. The perfect example of how not to do things, and sadly the final nail on a once-excellent franchise's coffin lid
Jacob S gave it a10:
This game is superberb. The level design is flawless. Getting around is a breze. I canot get enough of the incredibly amazing camera. WOW i bough this game because it was mature but i pusshed the limits of mature.
Phillip H gave it a4:
Better than Cum Lauda. Graphics lovely, story interesting, music good and girls look excellent. The game play sucks at times.
Hein P gave it a1:
The worst game ever what a disgrace to the Larry game. It is a Bust 1/10
