Product Type: Sierra PS2 games

Description:Genre: Driving & Racing / Video Game for PlayStation2 / Release Date: 2004-08-27 / Published by Sierra / Up to now The ... more

The Simpsons: Hit & Run Platinum (PS2) ... Simpsons games have been nothing if not consistent: they've all been completely rubbish. However, The Simpsons: Hit & Run thankfully breaks this 100 per cent record, and although it's hardly a classic in its own right it's just the thing for fans who want to worship their favourite characters through the medium of the joypad. Like many of the more recent Simpsons games Hit & Run is primarily a racing game--a racing game that's very obviously using Grand Theft Auto as its primary inspiration. There's less swearing and gore but just as much running people over and driving lots of different vehicles. You can't steal them off the street, admittedly, and the missions are presented in a much more linear fashion, but otherwise this is GTA: Springfield through and through. Somewhat embarrassingly for GTA, the on-the-foot sections are actually handled rather better than Rockstar's game, with a fairly non-rubbish camera and a decent control system that actually makes the occasional platform sections rather fun. Most of the game is about driving, though, whether it be racing Principle Skinner to school in order to give Lisa her homework or helping Bart buy some illegal fireworks from around town. It's only when controlling underage characters such as Bart that the game's concept really starts to seem peculiar (he only drives unmotorised vehicles) but otherwise the addition of all the proper voice actors from the TV show make this the first Simpsons game ever that is in any way worthy of a purchase.

Newest Review: ... your favourite Simpson’s character, starting in the infamous pink Cadillac, (is Homers car a Cadillac?) and you follow the ... more

 ... green arrows on the roads which leads you to the destination you need to go to in order to complete a task. Obviously if you drive anything like me you will crash frequently along the way and slowly but surely wreck your car. If you crash too much your car will be totally wrecked and it throws you out. Here's the good bit though. You just walk up to any car stopped at traffic lights etc and push the triangle button to nick it!!! Brilliant. You can drive saloons, school buses, trucks and all sorts. All through you will h...more