The Simpsons: Hit & Run takes players on a trip through the colorful streets of Springfield in a mission-based racing game with the ability to continue objectives on foot. Something is amiss in Springfield, as strange crop circles have been reported and people are suddenly disappearing. After Homer notices a mysterious satellite-equipped van parked outside his home, he takes it upon himself to discover the truth behind these unsettling events. A total of 17 characters are available for the mission-based driving sequences, with Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart, and Apu able to leave their cars and enter such buildings as Moe's Tavern, the Kwik-E-Mart, Kamp Krusty, and the Springfield Power Plant. To lend a degree of authenticity to the game, the animated show's original cast recorded the voice-overs for their respective characters.

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3. Beat the whole game in one evening. Start to finish. The key is to not think of the level as the absolute most difficult one-wrong-move, fast-as-you-can, don't-get-a-hit-and-run-or-you're-screwed finale. Take your shortcuts, slow down if you're going to run into something or on curves, and speed away to the finish if when you get that hit-and-run.

The Simpsons has supposedly declined over the past few years, but it remains one of my all-time favorites; in fact, it's one of the few TV shows I still watch at all. I was thrilled to see that someone had finally made a great Simpsons game with the release of The Simpsons Hit and Run, which I devoured on the Xbox when it was released a little over a month ago. I'm now on my second tour of Springfield with the PC version, and am happy to say it's a top-notch translation, in some ways better than its console brethren. Simpsons hit and run ios download.

At its core, The Simpsons Hit & Run has remained unchanged for the PC version. Part Grand Theft Auto and part Midtown Madness, Hit and Run takes place in a virtual Springfield. It's all here: the Simpsons' house, the Quik-E-Mart, Mr. Burns' mansion, Krustylu Studios .. you could spend hours just driving around checking out each of the three main areas. The plot, split up into 7 chapters, is a silly mystery involving black vans, mechanical wasp cameras and Buzz Cola, all leading up to a finale that would be right at home in the show's annual Treehouse of Horror.

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During each chapter, you take control of one of show's key characters (Homer, Bart, Marge, Lisa and Apu) and undertake a linear series of missions that, which the exception of a rare few, revolve around driving. One early mission pairs Lisa up with the Comic Book Guy in a race to acquire a rare comic book and return it to the Android's Dungeon before it loses its mint condition. Another tasks Marge with tailing a black sedan across Springfield and collecting meds for Grampa. Some missions require big cars useful for smashing up enemies; others require the fastest cars you can find so you can get from point A to point B as fast as possible. You build up a collection of vehicles as the game goes on, but you can carjac.. err, hitch a ride with nearly any car in the city simply by walking up to it and pressing the action button.

The missions themselves are a great deal of fun, if a bit on the easy side. The cars handle extremely well, especially if you're using a gamepad with dual analog sticks, and the difficulty ramps up nicely as you get access to better and better cars. Like the recent Grand Theft Auto games, there are tons of side missions and other diversions available in each chapter that can result in unlocking special cars or other bonuses, so players who take their time may find later missions a bit easier. There were only a few missions I found frustrating; the majority are pretty easy to beat once you've tried them a few times and know what to do.

My biggest question going into the PC version of Hit & Run was how much care would be put into translating the graphics. That question was answered the minute I loaded up the game and was greeted with amazingly crisp textures, menus, and loading screens. Unlike many console-to-PC ports, it's clear that the developers loaded up the PC version with as much high-res art as possible, which looks even better than the Xbox version. I played nearly the entire game at a resolution of 1600x1200, which was not only a joy to look at but extremely playable on my machine.

The main problem with the PC Hit & Run is the same as it was on the consoles: it's a bit awkward to get around while on foot. The camera doesn't always go where you want it to, and although you can control the camera manually, you don't always have full control, especially near walls. The few missions that involve running around on foot to collect items are easily the most annoying in the game, but thankfully there aren't more than a handful.

Oct 30, 2003 The 'Hit & Run' factor only comes into play when you hit too many pedestrians. After about ten 'kills' the cops finally spring into life and fine you $50 if they manage to catch up with you. Hi, Nathan here. I'm showing off my first mod, called The Simpsons Hit & Run: Frank Grimes Mode. Why is it called Frank Grimes Mode? Well, consider the original game 'Homer Simpson Mode', with Frank Grimes Mode being considerably more difficult and not particularly rewarding, much like the life of Frank Grimes.

Other than that, there's not much to complain about -- the main characters tend to repeat the same phrases over and over, which can get annoying after a while, and you'll burn through the main 49 missions, 7 bonus missions and 21 side races so quickly that you'll probably find yourself wishing for more. There are seven collector cards available throughout each chapter, which when acquired opens bonus races played from a top-down view (note: on the consoles, this allowed for 4-player multiplayer, but while we've unlocked the tracks in the PC version, it appears it's geared more towards single-play than multiplayer). There's a special Itchy and Scratchy movie that's unlocked when you find all 49 collectors cards, and enough gags and in-jokes scattered throughout each level to keep Simpsons fans busy long after the main missions are finished.

I was really impressed with Simpsons: Hit & Run when I first played it on the Xbox, and was equally impressed with the care taken in bringing it to the PC. It's not a hardcore epic like Grand Theft Auto and it's not a serious driving game, but it's definitely a lot of fun and a game no Simpsons fan should be without.

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'Why can't anyone make a decent Simpsons game?' has been the plaintive wail of millions of gamers for over a decade now, tired of being fed licensed pap year upon year. With such a fantastically rich property to draw upon, it's almost criminal that various developers over the years have been able to get away with this systematic trashing of the brand. The depressing thing is every one has sold very well; Simpsons Road Rage has sold over 1.8 million in the last year alone for gawd's sake. What about this year's model?

Despite being under the auspices of a determined and ambitious Vivendi-Universal, the Road Rage developer, Radical Entertainment, has been retained (which also developed the dreadful Dark Angel and the pretty but flawed The Hulk), which dampened our otherwise sunny optimism that things would finally be put right with this GTA-inspired romp around Springfield.

Take away the developer, and all the ingredients are there for a hilarious wheeze through a mission-based driving game that - on paper - deserves be one of the essential games of the year.

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For a start, a truckload of the show's voice and writing talent has been brought on board to authentically recreate the hilarious ambience of Springfield and its many warped characters. Although the various members of the Simpsons clan hog the limelight for most of the missions, the supporting cast is impressively large and every one comes out with some absolute gems that will have even hardened miserablists cackling inanely.

In the addition to the top-quality characters, the storyline's of true Simpsons vintage too, with all manner of typical conspiracy theories contributing to some classy entertainment; Homer desperately paranoid at the appearance of black vans in the neighbourhood, Bart determined to get hold of a copy of the banned Bonestorm Storm 2 videogame, Lisa chasing after the ever-desperate Millhouse's clues as to her brother's whereabouts, and so on. It's all highly amusing stuff, and does a decent job of tempting you through the game.

As you'll know, the structure of Hit & Run is unapologetically GTA; replace Liberty City with Springfield, add a cartoon palette, sprinkle in a host of Matt Groening's finest, and, Voila! But although the basic carjacking/mission-based driving template has been observed, the sandbox freedom of GTA has been replaced with a rigid linearity that forces you to complete the seven missions of each level in order before you can move on.

'We've got to destroy it before it warps them with its bloops and bleeps!'

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To kick off, Homer is tasked with a few basic mundane tasks to get players into the swing of things, and then the game quickly settles into a pattern of mission types that basically repeat throughout the game at increasing difficulty. In the main there are just three basic mission types: one-on-one racing, vehicle destruction/vehicle bumping, or object collection (or a bit of both), mostly against the clock. Some overlap, but you'll very quickly realise what an extraordinarily simple game Hit & Run is. The scenarios differ, the characters change, and the parts of Springfield you drive around switch depending on the character, but the tasks almost entirely focus on these three areas. Occasionally there's some basic platforming or general wandering around interiors, but in the main it's firmly focused on the driving element.

After Homer's seven missions (and sub-missions if you choose to seek them out - in another nod to GTA), the game switches to Bart, Lisa, Marge and Apu, with Homer and Bart given another level each later on. Along the way, you're encouraged to explore Springfield in order to pick up the many packages that litter the alleyways and rooftops, which either act as means to unlock video clips or as extra currency with which to buy better, more powerful vehicles. Certain missions require a faster or sturdier vehicle, and any you've already bought can be delivered to you by walking up to any of the many phone boxes littering Springfield. On the other hand, you can just hit triangle and borrow any of the populace's cars, which tends to come in handy when you've smashed yours to bits.

The 'Hit & Run' factor only comes into play when you hit too many pedestrians. After about ten 'kills' the cops finally spring into life and fine you $50 if they manage to catch up with you. As a punishment it's small beer, given that coins emerge from every broken item, from lampposts to trees and basically anything destructible.

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But unlike GTA, no one ever actually 'dies', even when you've run them over or your vehicle blows up, and there are never any weapons lying around to sully the wholesome reputation of those cuddly Simpsons. As a game so utterly indebted to Rockstar's opus, it feels strangely neutered to remove an element so ingrained in mission-based driving games, although on a practical licensing level you can understand it.

What you're left with, therefore, is a safe cuddly game with a stupendously excellent script hamstrung by some terrifyingly unambitious game design that thinks it's fine to constantly wheel out the same basic ideas, make them harder, and then boasts about there being 56 levels of it.

It's not necessarily that endless chase/destruction/collection driving missions aren't fun. For a while they seem like they might be, especially when accompanied by one hilarious wisecrack after another. Indeed, it's important to emphasise just how brilliant the storyline, script and voiceovers are when compared to your standard videogame. They promote such a feel-good vibe, that's it's almost possible to be fooled into enjoying what otherwise would be - at times - an utterly hateful experience.

But seeing as the game design genius at work here seems to extend to merely making the same basic missions harder, most casual gamers (which this is obviously pitched at) will get too frustrated to bother playing the same insanely hard level over and over again. If you're going to make a game for the lowest common denominator, the alleged 'mass' market, at least make it possible for those people to play it without taking out insurance for their joypads and small animals.

'When will they learn? Videogames don't kill people; they just kill their minds…'

And it's not just the game design that's conspires to limit your enjoyment either. There's a list of technical issues as long as my arm that would bug the hell out of even the most patient gamer. First of all, the actual driving physics are nothing short of atrocious, making the very basis of the game a chore from the off. Cars slide apologetically and unresponsively around the streets, and even after many hours it's a struggle to ever feel like you're in control. To compound the issue, it's all too easy to trip up in among the game engine's limitations, resulting in your vehicle getting caught up in all manner of improbable situations. One time, we made a leap of faith through an obvious short cut, only to nose dive into a bizarre gap that left our hapless vehicle wobbling desperately face down in an attempt to correct itself. This was by no means an isolated incident. Consistently your vehicle falls on its side, only to magically wobble back. What is this? Jelly Baby racing?

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The dreaded camera issues persistently disorientate the player, with an unending array of sloppy incidents that make it regularly impossible to see what on earth is going on. Really, this is third generation PS2 gaming - and it's unacceptable that games loaded with these kind of basic technical issues should be allowed to be sold for £40. Simpsons hit and run vehicle list 2016.

As for the visuals, they're reasonably attractive, without ever managing to truly capture the essence of the visual style intended. There's an inherent simplicity about The Simpsons that ought to be fairly straightforward in this day an age to replicate, but somehow the translation to 3D doesn't quite come off, lacking the charm and characterisation and merely populating the world with familiar faces and relying on the fall back of the voiceover to fill in the blanks for us. Admittedly, the disparate elements of the Springfield environment are pleasingly represented, with all manner of amusing billboards, shop signs and so on to keep you chuckling. In this sense the game engine does its job, but you get the feeling so much more could have been achieved with a more talented developer at the helm.

Mmm, DVD..

We've seen a few critical appraisals of Hit & Run elsewhere, and can't quite believe how easily pleased they've been. It seems a case of glossing over the glaring flaws and chuckling about the script, which is entirely missing the point. Sure, as we've mentioned a few times, the quality of the writing, the voices and the humour are absolutely spot-on, but rather than disguise the mediocre game within, this excellence merely serves to amplify the crushing disappointment of the one dimensional gameplay, and we're left wanting much, much more than this half arsed effort.

Committed Simpsons obsessives who live for every gag and one liner will have fun for a while, but for £40 you could buy the entire season three DVD box set [which is fantastic, with commentaries and everything! -Tom] and have change for doughnuts, Duff, and enough peanuts to last you all night. It's easily the best Simpsons game ever released, but that's not really saying much - as Lisa says: 'Oooh, videogames: what a waste of money'.

5 /10