There is no secret character on Hit and run. But there is on road rage though. Can you use a steering wheel on Simpsons Road Rage GameCube? The Simpsons: Hit and Run is the first Simpsons game to take full advantage of the Simpsons license, combining fun and addictive gameplay with the witty (and sometimes juvenile) humor of The Simpsons. Still, it won't be for everyone. The bottom line: if you can't appreciate the show's humor, there's not much for you in The Simpsons: Hit and Run.

.: June 27, 2003.: June 30, 2003Mode(s),The Simpsons: Road Rage is a 2001 video game based on the, and is part of a. It was released for,. A version was released in 2003.

The Simpsons: Road Rage was later added to the Backwards Compatibility program of the Xbox 360 for original Xbox games.The game stars, and, as well as and several other characters from the show. The Simpsons: Road Rage is similar to 's 1999 video game, in that the main objective is to drive picked up passengers to their destinations as quickly as possible.

These similarities led to Sega suing Radical Entertainment and Electronic Arts for, though it was settled before going to court. The game received mixed reviews, being considered a bare-bones Crazy Taxi clone and criticised for its poor graphics. Contents.Gameplay and plot The Simpsons: Road Rage is based on the animated television series. In the story of the game, has bought all transit systems in Springfield and has begun to create radioactive buses that threaten the public health. Because of this, the citizens of Springfield must use their own cars as a means of safer public transport and earn money in an attempt to pay back Burns to get rid of the radioactive buses and return the town back to normal.The citizens of the city (controlled by the game player) earn money by driving around a vehicle for a given amount of time, picking up passengers and taking them to their destinations. The player receives money upon successfully dropping off each passenger, and bonuses are obtained when they are transported in a short amount of time.

Players have to avoid certain hurdles, such as other vehicles and Burns' nuclear transit buses. The game contains seventeen different collectible vehicles, six starting locations and ten different missions. In order to collect the vehicles and unlock starting locations, players must earn progressively more money for each vehicle or starting location they want to get. In order to complete missions, players must do certain things (such as protecting from a fan mob by driving him away, and getting to his workplace unnoticed).At first, the only playable characters (taxi drivers) are Homer, and, but as the game progresses more characters are unlocked. There is also a multiplayer mode in which the two players compete to pick up the same passengers and drive them to their destinations. Development and release The Simpsons: Road Rage was developed by and published.

The version was released first, on November 24, 2001 in North America, and the and versions followed in December of that year. The cast members of The Simpsons provided their voices for the game. Voice samples original to the game, as well as one-liners from the show, can be heard in Road Rage.A version for the (GBA), developed by and published by, was released in North America on June 30, 2003. THQ reached a publishing agreement with in 2002 that gave them the rights to publish this version and a game. Germaine Gioia, vice president of licensing at THQ, said ' The Simpsons and Buffy properties have enjoyed tremendous consumer appeal in nearly every product category, including video game successes. Both properties will serve to further bolster our leadership position on the Game Boy Advance.' Lawsuit In 2003, the video game developer filed a lawsuit against Fox Interactive, Electronic Arts, and Radical Entertainment, claiming that The Simpsons: Road Rage was a of Sega's Crazy Taxi.

In that game, the main objective is also to pick up passengers and drive them to their chosen destinations quickly. According to, ' Road Rage features similar game play, to the point where some reviews commented negatively on the parallels.' The case, Sega of America, Inc.

Fox Interactive, et al., was settled in private for an undisclosed amount. Reception ReceptionReview scoresPublicationScoreN/AN/AN/A4/10N/A3.67/10N/AN/AN/A7/102.25/108/108/108/10N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AC+N/A5.9/106.2/106.2/106.2/1067%39%N/AGameZone5.5/10N/A7/106/107.5/105.8/105.1/106.4/102.7/54.6/5N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A6.2/10N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A8/10N/AAggregate score55/4/10061/100By July 2006, the PlayStation 2 version of The Simpsons: Road Rage had sold 1.6 million copies and earned $41 million in the United States. Ranked it as the 25th highest-selling game launched for the, or between January 2000 and July 2006 in that country.

Combined sales of Simpsons console games released in the 2000s reached 5.2 million units in the United States by July 2006. The PlayStation 2 version also received a 'Platinum' sales award from the (ELSPA), indicating sales of at least 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom.The game received 'mixed or average reviews' on all platforms according to the website.Amer Ajami of said that the PlayStation 2 version 'suffers from a number of problems, not the least of which is bad collision detection.

You'll often find yourself clipping a corner of a building or slamming into another car even though you have room to spare.' Ajami was also disappointed with the extremely slippery and overly sensitive control. Ajami added, however, that fans of the show should enjoy the game.' S David Zdyrko said of the same console version that 'the gameplay just isn't deep or compelling enough to warrant picking this title up unless you absolutely MUST have every single product with The Simpsons plastered on it.'

Zdyrko also criticized the graphics, stating that the 'framerate chugs in some of the levels when there are a lot of cars on screen and the textures are generally low resolution and completely bland.' Zdyrko also said the 'hilarious voice samples' were the 'lone bright spot' of the game, although he admitted that some of them can get a bit repetitive. ^ Torres, Ricardo (September 14, 2001).

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Episodes rated best and worst from each season:1: Krusty Gets Busted/ Homer's Night Out 2: The Way We Was/ Bart's Dog Gets an F 3: Colonel Homer/ Dog of Death 4: Marge vs. The Monorail/ So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show 5: Cape Feare/ Bart Gets An Elephant 6: Treehouse of Horror V/ Another Simpsons Clip Show 7: Mother Simpson/ Homerpalooza 8: You Only Move Twice/ The Canine Mutiny 9: Lisa's Sax/ The Two Mrs.

I definitely played a lot of both.Hit and Run is better, but it did so by taking everything in Road Rage and then building on it. It would win simply from having more characters to play as, then there is a longer story and sandbox gameplay.But I actually got 100% completion in Road Rage, so clearly I played it enough.

The simplicity of the gameplay reminds me now of the sort you'd get on a cell phone for just killing time.Tapped Out was good too. They all just took other games and made rip-off/parodies which allowed you to play slightly inferior versions of the other games using The Simpsons characters. It was a good business model for a licensed series.