![]() ![]() Fun is poked at high-ranking mascots, game designers and general video gaming clichés (predictable 'weak spots' on end-of-level bosses, for instance), all in the typically cutting Simpsons style.Īlthough other companies have taken similar steps and produced knowingly 'post modern' hits (such as Nintendo with its WarioWare franchise), the acerbic humour seen in The Simpsons is head and shoulders above anything that has been before. If you're a passionate gamer, you'll lap up the sharp observations and satirical comments featured within The Simpsons. Rather than take the easy option or creating a game that sticks slavishly to the plot of the recent cinematic outing, EA has wisely decided to create a unique experience and has packed the product with a quite frankly insane amount of fan service. As you might expect, much of the humour relies on the player having some familiarity with the TV show, but the vast majority of the gags will amuse even if you've been locked in a time capsule for the past two decades and have bypassed The Simpsons craze altogether. Thankfully, it's now possible to add another to that elite group. As a result there has been only a handful of games blessed with the ability to make you laugh out loud. The fact that the player is in control of the pace means the all-important element of comic timing is utterly compromised. As of January 31, 2008, four million copies of the game have been sold worldwide.Genuine humour is a notoriously difficult thing to carry off in a video game. The Simpsons Game received the Best Game Based on a Movie or TV Show award at the 2007 Spike Video Game Awards and was nominated for Best Video Game Writing at the 2007 Writers Guild of America Awards. They praised its visuals and writing, which included many parodies of other video games, while they criticized its short length and poor camera system, which did not always function properly. The game was met with mixed reception from video game critics. The Simpson family travels to four scenarios in parodies of other games to collect key cards used to infiltrate their creator’s mansion and ultimately to save their predecessors from destruction to reverse their generations old ban on video games. Eventually, they must save their 8-bit predecessors from Will Wright, and the creator of their video game character selves, Matt Groening. ![]() The game follows the five Simpson family members- Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie-who learn they are part of a video game and are given superpowers to resolve several situations. Similar to the show, the game pokes fun at popular culture, other video games, and Electronic Arts, its publisher. In the self-referential plot, the family discovers that they are forced to participate in another The Simpsons video game. It features an original storyline written by The Simpsons writers Tim Long and Matt Warburton. It was released in North America in October 2007 and worldwide in November 2007. The game was published, and distributed by Electronic Arts. ![]() The Simpsons Game is a 2007 platform game based on the animated television series The Simpsons made for the Nintendo DS, Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable. ![]()
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