DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue
In his travels DeathSpank has brought justice to the downtrodden, faced the riddle of bacon and defeated evils so horrible they would make just plain evil lose its lunch. DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue is a…
DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue is an adventure developed by Hothead Games, released 20 September 2010 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Linux and Mac.
What DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue is
DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue is an adventure game developed by Hothead Games and released in 2010. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on PhyreEngine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue is an action role-playing game by game designer Ron Gilbert and is the sequel to DeathSpank. It was announced on August 23, 2010. The game adds new environments, modernized weapons, increased boss fights, and a new multiplayer character. Thongs of Virtue was released on September 21, 2010 on the PlayStation 3 via the PlayStation Network and on September 22, 2010 on the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade. The Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X versions were released November 30, 2010 and December 14, 2010, respectively via Steam.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 13 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 3 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium 4 (or equivalent with SSE2 support) running at 1.7 GHz or greater, 1 GB of ram, 1.5 GB (Vista and Windows 7) and ATI Radeon X1900 GT 256MB and the Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB cards; Shader 2.0 and 24 bit depth buffer support required. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it launched against
DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue launched on 20 September 2010, within three weeks of Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Pokémon Black Version. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Pokémon Black Version.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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