Product Description

The Simpsons Game features a hilarious, sprawling, and mind-busting storyline crafted by the TV show's Emmy Award-winning writers. In this action-comedy, the full cast of voice actors from the TV show and movie reprise their roles to lend the ultimate in authenticity and realism to the game. In The Simpsons Game, Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa use exciting, all-new powers to save the world from rising chaos. To help the Simpsons, gamers at home must journey through all of Springfield (as well as vast worlds beyond!), vanquish an amazing array of villains, and fight their way through parodies of multiple popular games.

Features:

• The Real Simpsons: You wouldn't want to hear Comic Book Guy voiced over by an actual comic-book shop guy, would you? Neither would we! That's why we got the actual voice actors from the TV show and movie to reprise their roles, so the characters in The Simpsons Game sound exactly as they should.
• Play Your Favorite Characters: play as all members of your favorite dysfunctional TV family as you battle to save them from video-game purgatory.
• It's the Real Deal: Just like you want the game to sound like the show, you also want it to look like the show. And thanks to some really smart guys using innovative 3D into 2D technology, it does! Add in a huge cast of Simpsons folks and an amazing level of interactivity and you've got a Simpsons experience like no other.
• Haw-haw!: When The Simpsons aims its trademark wit at the video-game industry, nothing's sacred! Pop culture and current-event parodies join the mix to deliver classic The Simpsons humor and then some!
• They're Simpsons and Then Some: The Simpsons family have been given special video-game powers! From Lisa's Saxophone Spin to Homer's Power Burp, these special abilities give the Simpsons a fighting chance against the video-game baddies.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1320 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2007-10-30
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Dimensions: 3.00 pounds

Features

• Action-comedy with hilarious, sprawling, and mind-busting storyline crafted by TV show's Emmy Award-winning writers
• Full cast of voice actors from the TV show and movie lend to the ultimate authenticity and realism of the game
• Play as all members of your favorite dysfunctional TV family as you battle to save them from video-game purgatory
• Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa use exciting, all-new powers to save the world from rising chaos
• Journey through all of Springfield, vanquish an array of villains, and fight through parodies of multiple popular games

Customer Reviews

Good Clean Fun...Woo-hoo I Like It!
This is going to be short.

I RARELY play video games, but this one had a base conceptual appeal to me. I insisted on getting it when we ordered our Xbox.

I've hardly managed to get through much of it. As usual I'm flummoxed by the seemingly easiest of obstacles to overcome (How long did it take me to jump the donuts to the cake?? Don't ask).

Overall, it's a highly entertaining game and not too terribly frustrating for a cerebral but non-gaming person such as myself.

If you're looking for fun, I'd have to recommend this one.

Great effort, but missed the mark
After years of licensed shovelware, The Simpsons finally get a game made by people who obviously care. Pity the gameplay missed the mark.

For simpsons fans, the game is loaded with in-jokes, references, hand-animated scenes, and voice actors from the series. Unlike previous simpsons games, it feels carefully and meticulously put together. The plot is interesting, and the game is actually quite funny at times. It really feels like an event. Springfield has never been rendered with this much care.

That having been said, it is a pity the actual moment-to-moment gameplay varies between uninspired and frustrating. There were many moments where I had to resort to FAQs to figure out which button to press to get the character to do what they should know how to anyway. The basic beat-em-up formula is about as basic (and tedious) as you can get, and the platforming is fidgety with imprecise mechanics and a devil camera. Not only that, but the controlling-two-characters mechanic relies upon constantly going back to get your second character, all of whom walk as slow as slugs.

The whole thing is over in about six hours. Longevity is added through extensive collectibles, time trials, and other mechanics, but quite frankly six hours is about an hour too long.

I wanted to like The Simpsons Game as much as the creators had wanted me to, but in the end the bland gameplay just dragged down an otherwise impressive effort. Visit this Springfield to satiate your love of the Simpsons and video gaming, but don't expect to stay forever.

Has It's Ups And Downs
When I got this game, I was very excited because when I saw the commercial, I thought to myself, "Finally! A simpsons game that doesn't look crappy!". I started playing it and it was great the few first levels, but then I found out that this game is MUCH more fun with a second player. So if you don't have someone to play with you, this game will be kind of boring and dull. I then got my brother to play with me and it was a lot more fun. I thought the gameplay ws great and the lines were funny and original and brought out the simpsons humor we all know and love. The camera angles are really bad in my opinion, and take some time getting used to. I loved the idea of the levels making fun of other games such as Medal Of Honor and Everquest and re-naming them Medal Of Homer and Neverquest. The game takes a pretty short time to complete the main story. It took me and my brother about 8 hours to beat the story. If you want to beat the entire game 100% it will take a while. I reccomend you try before you buy. That is why I give this game 3/5 stars. Thanks!