You'll be able to play as every member of the Simpson clan as well as a few other familiar faces from the show. While we don't want to spoil the plot, suffice it to say that the story would make for an amusing "Treehouse of Horror" episode, and it features a pair of otherworldly villains that fans of the series should have no trouble recognizing as they go through the game.Īs mentioned, the game's structure borrows liberally from Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto III and presents you with a variety of missions to perform all over Springfield, which has been faithfully re-created. Where the bees came from and what they're doing are mysteries you'll solve over the course of the game. The Simpsons: Hit and Run is shaping up to be one of the best Simpsons games in almost a decade.Īt the beginning of the game, we check in with our favorite family as the town of Springfield is invaded by a horde of mysterious mechanical bees. We tried out the PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions of the game and are tremendously pleased with how it's shaping up. The promising game, developed by Radical Entertainment, marries the open-ended gameplay of Grand Theft Auto III with a liberal dose of the series' trademark humor. Fortunately, Vivendi Universal's upcoming multiplatform third-person action game, The Simpsons: Hit and Run, is poised to reverse the years of mediocre games in a big way. In fact, since many recent games based on the show haven't turned out all that well, it almost seemed like the best Simpsons game was, and always would be Konami's classic 1991 arcade game. During the course of that time, video game developers have tried to capture the series' appeal in game form, with mixed results.
It's not likely to happen – but you never know, right? We'll update you if any more information presents itself.Over the past 14 years, The Simpsons has grown to become one of the most popular animated TV shows of all time. But absolutely, it would be fun to explore those characters and that universe again, that work again." It would have to take the parties who are in charge of the property to want that to happen and someone out there to decide that they were going to go out and do it. "I could see it on multiple different types of platforms as a remake or remaster.
Speaking exclusively to LADbible, Ceraldi said: If you've got a hankering from some more cartoon catastrophe, though, don't give up all hope just yet – Hit and Run's original producer, Vlad Ceraldi, stated last year that he believes the game could be due a remaster or full-scale remake. McGinn says the studio developing the title had to "move on" shortly after the licence was awarded to EA.
Sadly, the havoc you'd get to enjoy with a more sophisticated physics engine never came to be – EA swooped in and won the rights to The Simpsons movie game and work on Hit and Run 2 was terminated.
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