Yes, the Xbox Live Arcade South Park game, first announced a year ago, has been uncovered… and it’s a tower defense game. While the rest of you are letting that all sink in, we would like to make a desperate plea to all the game developers out there.

Guys – unless you have serious presence in front of the camera or good comedic timing, do us, the gamers of the world, a favor and stop trying to be funny. Please? The first snippet of the video above where lead designer John Scott Tynes’ attempts to describe the genre of South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! is just… well, we’ll just say awkwardly painful at best and leave it at that. We won’t even touch on the joke he makes near the end. You don’t all have to try and be Tim Schafer, really. Just make a fun game. We promise we won’t love you any less.

That being said, despite the borderline oversaturation of the tower defense genre at the moment (as a glance at my iPod touch will confirm), I’ll at least be checking out the demo when it comes out on October 7th. The co-op play combined with the more active action elements have me wondering if something like this is just what the genre needs to move forward.

[Video courtesy of GameTrailers.com]