Product Description

There are strange happenings in Springfield. People are missing, very mysterious crop circles are appearing and hidden cameras are being exposed. When Homer notices a black van with a satellite dish parked outside the Simpsons house, he decides to investigate further into these odd events. What he reveals could be the biggest mystery to rock Springfield since Who Shot Mr Burns?

The Simpsons Hit & Run promises a hilarious mission-based driving game with exciting out-of-the-car platform gameplay, the signature satire of The Simpsons and the interactive world of Springfield.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1534 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Sierra
• Released on: 2003-10-31
• Rating: Universal, particularly children
• Platform: PlayStation2
• Number of items: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Up to now The Simpsons games have been nothing if not consistent: they've all been completely rubbish. However, The Simpsons: Hit & Run thankfully breaks this 100 per cent record, and although it's hardly a classic in its own right it's just the thing for fans who want to worship their favourite characters through the medium of the joypad.

Like many of the more recent Simpsons games Hit & Run is primarily a racing game--a racing game that's very obviously using Grand Theft Auto as its primary inspiration. There's less swearing and gore but just as much running people over and driving lots of different vehicles. You can't steal them off the street, admittedly, and the missions are presented in a much more linear fashion, but otherwise this is GTA: Springfield through and through.

Somewhat embarrassingly for GTA, the on-the-foot sections are actually handled rather better than Rockstar's game, with a fairly non-rubbish camera and a decent control system that actually makes the occasional platform sections rather fun.

Most of the game is about driving, though, whether it be racing Principle Skinner to school in order to give Lisa her homework or helping Bart buy some illegal fireworks from around town. It's only when controlling underage characters such as Bart that the game's concept really starts to seem peculiar (he only drives unmotorised vehicles) but otherwise the addition of all the proper voice actors from the TV show make this the first Simpsons game ever that is in any way worthy of a purchase. --David Jenkins

GamesMaster Magazine
"A surprising treat... the best Simpsons game ever made. 80%."

Play Magazine
"In Hit and Run we finally get a Simpsons game worth playing. 81%."

Customer Reviews

fun game
i found this game to be really easy and exciting but soon it got harder then i thought.there are 7 fantastic levels and you can even play as apu in the game but also the simpsons family.the creators of the simpsons have very well made this game extremely fun and undenieable.you start the game as homer and my favorite is the level where you play as bart.

best simpsons game ever concieved
simpsons hit and run is a free roaming mission based adventure game set in 7 different levels through-out springfield, the missions are very well constructed and all have part of a very unique and veryy well written story line, the story line has twist and can be unexpected at times. you get to play as marge, homer, bart, lisa and apu, each character for one level, you can collect coin which you use to buy clothes and new cars, there are many landmarks to see from the simpsons world like, the power plant, the school, the kwik e mart, the comic store, moes tavarn and so on, the side missions are also very fun and they can be used to unlock extra cars, and there are also races to complete. i recomend this to ANYONE who likes simpsons or free roaming mission based game, and as far as simpsons games go this game is damn near perfect, couldve done with soem kind of weapon instead of having to punch and but bounce all the time, but it doesnt bother me too much at all

Simpson Hit + Run
This is a must have game for simpsons fans of all ages! Besides the good graphics and the many different missions to do, the controls are simple and easy to get a hang of, and some of the things the characters say are very funny.