Regardless, it very much works in the game's favor and makes for what is likely the funniest DeathSpank game yet.

Maybe it's because sci-fi is such a rich genre, one that many of us are already intimately familiar with. More than any of the others games in the series, the jokes are fast and relentless throughout the whole experience, and they rarely miss their mark.

This is probably The Baconing's greatest strength. With an even bigger wealth of content to derive jokes from, the game hits you thick and fast, rarely letting up from its barrage of DeathSpank-iness. The game kicks off in a way that will be instantly familiar to fans-well-paced quests that sweep you from one location to another at a steady pace, a plentiful supply of enemies to hack and shoot your way through, and imitigable plethora of looted goods. If you can name it within the sci-fi genre, there is probably a solid nod somewhere in The Baconing. Everything is in here, from Robocop to Tron to even Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and a ton more. Fantasy and modern war parodies make way for yet another easily pastiched genre-science fiction-and this game nails it perfectly. With a new DeathSpank comes a new setting. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but familiarity and repetition only go so far. If you're walking into this review having just played the previous two DeathSpank titles, you probably already know what to expect out of the Downtroddener of Justice's latest adventure, The Baconing.

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