![]() Homer, again, gets the best - a fabled chilli that turns him into a swollen blob of red rolling death. Sideshow Bob is particularly good.Įach of the four-and-a-half Simpsons keeps their special abilities fuelled by boffing enemies and gathering pick-ups, and each can take advantage of a special temporary power-up to become super-strong and invincible. Pretty much everyone you can think of makes an appearance. All that in addition to the usual button-mashing punch attack. Bart can fire his slingshot, or turn into Bartman and hover across gaps Lisa can stun enemies with her saxophone, or use Buddha statues to assume an aerial view of the level and deploy a hand-of-God UFO-Catcher to move things around and Marge can use a megaphone to rally NPCs to help her, or shove Maggie into vents where she can pull switches and uncover collectibles. The Simpsons have discovered that they are in a game, and have special powers to match, and each has different ideas about how to put them to use.Īs with the show, Homer's the star - he can burp people to death and transform into Homerball to bowl them out of the way, and gets most of the best gags. Split into 16 episodes - self-contained stories bound by their mutual desire to send up videogames - what we have here is a third-person platform game full of simple combat and puzzles, most of which is defensibly average, potentially stabilised by a lot of good jokes and the occasional moment of mild inspiration. Instead, they've come up with new scenarios, recorded tons of new dialogue and proper animated sequences, and, er, built another dull, 5-million-selling platform game to fit. Considering what a fantastic job it does spoofing the variety of clichés and crutches our favorite pastime relies upon, that's got to count for something.Given that The Simpsons has been on TV for longer than most of the TV channels that show it, you could forgive EA for pillaging the existing scripts and building another dull, 5-million-selling platform game to fit. Games this spot-on in the humor category don't come along too often. That might not sound like a ringing endorsement, but The Simpsons Game is absolutely worth playing. It's something that's more to be put up with while you appreciate the many other things going on than enjoyed on its own merits. The gameplay isn't awful by any means, but it's also completely unmemorable. The things that make this game are its sense of humor, sharp writing, and excellent presentation. GameSpot (70/100): "In the end, The Simpsons Game is one of those weird cases where a recommendation of it is based less on its merits as a game and more on its merits as an experience.At the very least, it makes for a great rental." For $59.99, you basically receive an eight to ten hour interactive bonus episode. Game Daily (70/100): "Obviously, Simpsons nuts will thoroughly enjoy the game, not for its excessive box breaking and switch hitting, but for all of the sweet content and attractive visuals, sans the characters.The chuckles along the way make it worth the trouble for fans, but if you don't know Arman Tamzarian from Disco Stu, most of the game's redeeming elements will fall on deaf, bored ears. Game Informer (73/100): " For all of its self-referential humor and nods to gaming classics (there are brief segments mimicking the likes of Frogger, Space Invaders, and Wolfenstein 3D), the process of actually playing The Simpsons Game is unfortunately average.EA could have made buckets of cash just copying Konami's simple formula from over a decade ago and we wonder if the reviews might have been slightly better. Many were hoping this game would bring video game fun to The Simpsons like only The Simpsons Arcade Game gave us those many, many years ago. The Simpsons Game released this week and reviews have it hovering in the 70 point range. ![]() At least they got the humor right this time ('cause they had the actual Simpsons' writers). D'oh! It's like reliving the early '90s all over again with a ho-hum Simpsons console game on the market.
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