2011 · Puzzle · Strategy

Monty Python's Cow Tossing

2011 mobile video game

Released: 3 February 2011
Platforms: Android Legacy Mobile Device Windows iOS
Genres: Puzzle Strategy
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Perspective: Side view
Themes: Fantasy Comedy

About

Monty Python's Cow Tossing is a catapult-physics game. It was developed by South African studio Luma Arcade and released by Zed Worldwide on February 3, 2011, for Android, iOS, and J2ME. The game is similar in style to Angry Birds and Crush the Castle, and includes the premise of firing cows at Englishmen who are located in structures built of concrete, wood, and other materials. It is based on the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail "in which French militiamen hurl a heifer onto a band of English relic seekers", and to further tie-in to the movie, "funny quotes from the movie appear in bubbles over the characters".

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Reception

The game has received mixed to negative reviews, earning a Metacritic score of 41% based on 6 critic reviews.

In rare positive reviews, What's On IPhone wrote "I'm a Python fan and for a dollar, this game is cute, funny and worth the cost. Like Angry Birds, it can bit quite addicting"., and MacLife commented "While there's an inclination to state that Monty Python's Cow Tossing HD was a quick, hasty effort to capitalize on a classic comedy meme and heap additional currency into the Python coffers, this doesn't feel like the case. There's a genuinely good game at the core here -- the app itself ran well and we experienced none of the crashes that App Store reviewers are complaining about -- but there's a lot of version 1.0 bugginess to sort out. Give it a month, wait until it hits version 1.1 (or later), see what the feedback is and perhaps the $2.99 App Store price won't go towards a soda but towards a promising title laden with Monty Python goodness".