WhatвЂ™s interesting about this is that you donвЂ™t immediately notice it and you can actually use it to your advantage. If you go far enough in one direction youвЂ™ll end of back where you started. What I mean by that is that the Springfield the game presents is just one big racetrack.

This isnвЂ™t a complaint so much as energy excuse to name drop a Treehouse of horror episodeвЂ¦feeling nostalgic yet?Д«ut seriously though the animation style is superb you really feel like youвЂ™re playing in the real Simpsons universe and thereвЂ™s just enough open world to explore to maintain that feeling while being closed off enough for the game to work. The closest it comes to it is episode six of season 7 or вЂTreehouse of horror VIвЂ™ the mini episode within entitled вЂHomer3вЂ™ in which Homer trying to find a hiding space to avoid another the visit from MargeвЂ™s sisters the grizzly Patty and Selma in his search he comes across a gateway to some 3rd dimension world. The animation style isnвЂ™t exactly like watching a Simpson episode. I guess theyвЂ™re okay with running people over and then fleeing the scene but not stealing a car. Although unlike GTA III in Hit and Run you end up being a passenger instead of just taking the car. You can also steal pretty much every car in the game. Not necessarily unique to both these games but both games also involve gathering random collectible items and doing missions for random people in return for goods or services and both have a third person point of view and an explorable sandbox environment. For example the radar and the strong focus on driving. Something which I didnвЂ™t notice at the time is that Hit and Run and GTA III have some core similarities. It was written by the actually Simpson writers and voiced by the real voice actors. ItвЂ™s easy to see why this game was so good. Road rage however was limited and was mostly a crazy taxi clone with Simpsons characters (Sega obviously agreed with this point because the later sued the developers radical entertainment and electronic arts) but Hit and Run made a much better game because they developed on the mechanics of road rage but also gave us so much more.

Firstly because both game titles imply some sort of vehicular mishap and secondly because they base their game primarily around Simpsons characters driving a lot. In some ways Hit and run is a spiritual successor to Simpson road rage. It is however the best game the franchise had produced. And this is not their first attempt at a video game, that honour goes to Bart Simpson vs the space mutant which was released in February 1991 for the NES. Now everyone knows the yellow skinned family that have been entertaining us since 1989. For anyone who somehow missed one of the greatest games ever The Simpsons: Hit and Run is an Action-Adventure video game based on the American animated Sitcom вЂThe SimpsonsвЂ™.

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