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Good Simpsons games?

SolVanderlyn

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I'm rewatching the Golden Age now and I'm itchin' for some good games.

As far as I know, Hit and Run is the best received, but it just looks like Crazy Taxi with a skin?

What are the best games, the best ways to play them these days, and why do you recommend them?
 

AFI-kun

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Simpsons Hit & Run, only second to Sleeping Dogs as best open world crime simulator.
 
vestan

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SolVanderlyn said:
but it just looks like Crazy Taxi with a skin?
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More like GTA, lol.

I'd say the best Simpsons game that isn't Hit and Run is Road Rage. Now that's a Crazy Taxi clone right there.

Really wish we got the E3 version of the game, looks league better than the final retail release.

 
Shoe

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SolVanderlyn said:
I'm rewatching the Golden Age now and I'm itchin' for some good games.

As far as I know, Hit and Run is the best received, but it just looks like Crazy Taxi with a skin?

What are the best games, the best ways to play them these days, and why do you recommend them?
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Road Rage is the Crazy Taxi clone. Hit and Run is a GTA parody, and is fantastic.
 
Donsonite

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Simpsons: Hit & Run was the shit, it's definitely worth looking into for a good Simpsons game. And there's quite a bit of on-foot gameplay, so a bit different than Crazy Taxi.
 
bmdubya

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Both Road Rage and Hit and Run are really good. The Simpsons Movie game was pretty good as well. I played that quite a bit on Xbox 360. But I probably put hundreds of hours into Road Rage. That and NBA Street were the first two games I owned on PS2, and played them constantly.
 
JustinH

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Other than Hit and Run...? I remember really liking the arcade game, but that might just be from nostalgia from when I was a kid, and it's not available on the XBL Marketplace anymore, anyways.
 
out_of_touch

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You can't go wrong with the arcade game for Konami beat-em-up goodness. The Simpsons Game released in 2007 reviewed very well, I never had the chance to play it :(
 
EndlessNever

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Hit & Run is so damn good, and probably one of the best licenced games in general. I remember sinking in a stupid amount of hours into it when younger.
 
Timu

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The Simpsons Arcade Game


The Simpsons Hit and Run


The Simpsons Game(2007)


The Simpsons Road Rage
 
Genesius

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I've got PS2 versions of road rage and hit & run in my closet

Trying to will the PS5 to have BC
 
Rygar 8Bit

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Timppis

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Tapped out is the only good Simpson game I can come up with.

And Lee Carvallo's Putting challenge of course.
 

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JustinH said:
Other than Hit and Run...? I remember really liking the arcade game, but that might just be from nostalgia from when I was a kid, and it's not available on the XBL Marketplace anymore, anyways.
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Nah even a lot of non-Simpsons fans liked that one, it was just fun.

But yeah I do wish Konami renewed these games again (X-Men too for instance) for them to be made BC. Still sad that arcade room thing never gave us the promised Sunset Riders.
 
MDSVeritas

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A lot of people here have already said Simpsons Hit and Run, so I'll offer up...


Simpsons. Hit. And. Run.

It's so much damn fun.
 
MrBadger

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I've not played it in a while but I really enjoyed the movie game. The gameplay is fairly standard but the writing is excellent
 
overcast

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Never got to play the 360 game but I really wanted to. Hit and Run was a blast to play when I was like 11.
 
JangleLuke

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ZiggyPalffyLA said:
The 2007 game was legitimately great. And kinda open-world. Also one of the funniest games I've ever played.
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AFAIK the open-world parts are exclusive to the PS3 and 360 versions, The PS2 version (the one I grew up with) has a handful of enclosed hubs to select levels. (Also applies to the Wii one)

I personally recommend it, a lot.
 

ZiggyPalffyLA

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JangleLuke said:
AFAIK the open-world parts are exclusive to the PS3 and 360 versions, The PS2 version (the one I grew up with) has a handful of enclosed hubs to select levels. (Also applies to the Wii one)

I personally recommend it, a lot.
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I had no idea! I played it on the 360. That Land of Chocolate level was sooo good. And the final battle
DDR against God
was perfect.

I'll never understand why this game doesn't get more love.
 
crazillo

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Hit & Run was great! It was actually backwards compatible on the Xbox 360 but it never hit Xbox One :/

Never got around to play the 360 game although I have heard mixed things about it.
 
Dwebble

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I'd kill for a new Hit and Run with the Simpsons Game artstyle and a bigger scope.

Unfortunately, the brand's shackled to the drowned corpse that is Tapped Out, and I don't see EA going for anything that ambitious nowadays.
 
Jimnymebob

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Hit and Run is one of those games that I loved, but I'm kinda cautious about revisiting it, because I feel like it won't have aged all that well.

The Simpsons Game is probably the best/in my own opinion only truly good Simpsons related thing since like season 13.
 
Qikz

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Bart vs the Space Mutants is really fun, but it's incredibly difficult.
 
Bony Manifesto

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Qikz said:
Bart vs the Space Mutants is really fun, but it's incredibly difficult.
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It's really front-loaded too. The first level is pretty good, with each purple object involving a mini-puzzle to hide or paint it, but in the subsequent levels, you're just collecting stuff. I wonder how many people actually got past that first level, as like you say, it's ball-bustingly hard (mostly because it controls so poorly).
 
Gakidou

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My little sister used to have VIRTUAL SPRINGFIELD on the PC. It'd probably be dead weird and hilarious to go back to.

Not a lot of people seem to remember the generation of IMMERSIVE P&C SIM games that were huge on early windows. There's so many obscure licensed titles and they all have dodgy bespoke traditional style animations. Virtual Springfield was honestly one of the most elaborate and impressive ones of this genre that I can recall.
 
honest_ry

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The Simpsons game that came out last gen (titled The Simpsons) has a ton of charm and enjoyable moments. If you are a fan of the show then you will enjoy it.

Theres tons of neat game references in it as well.
 
HStallion

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Gakidou said:
My little sister used to have VIRTUAL SPRINGFIELD on the PC. It'd probably be dead weird and hilarious to go back to.

Not a lot of people seem to remember the generation of IMMERSIVE P&C SIM games that were huge on early windows. There's so many obscure licensed titles and they all have dodgy bespoke traditional style animations. Virtual Springfield was honestly one of the most elaborate and impressive ones of this genre that I can recall.
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I played this game though it was barely even that. You basically just went to random famous spots from The Simpson's and would click around the scene till you exhausted all the options and then moved. There were some slight puzzle aspects but they rarely ever went anywhere. It was pretty bare bones.
 
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