The Simpsons: Hit & Run

The Simpsons Hit & Run is a published in September 2003 for PC and video game based on the American television series The Simpsons. The title was developed by Canadian company Radical Entertainment. He appeared at the same time for the three then-current home consoles (Playstation 2, Xbox, GameCube ) and with a short time interval (November 2003) for the PC.

Game Description

In the role of different Simpsons - protagonist, the player has a variety of tasks in a mixture of racing and platforming do run game and can move freely in a 3D model of the fictional town of Springfield here. This basic concept is reminiscent partly to the Grand Theft Auto series.

The game is divided into seven levels, where one controls one known from the series individual in a particular district, the number of possible characters is limited to five and there are only three different neighborhoods, which are repeated in some heavily altered form. Each level ends with a short video that continues the game 's history.

As an extra were " trading cards " that allude each on a scene from the series, built into the game. In each level there are seven such cards to find. If you collect all the cards in each level, you get a multiplayer mini-game. In addition, many " gags " from the series were taken. Some of them put the player in finding an advantage.

In England, the game got the Diamond Award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association ( ELSPA ) sold for at least one million units.