Study: 90 per cent of games start with an easy tutorial level
For a start, a truckload of the show’s voice and writing talent has been brought on board to authentically recreate the hilarious ambience of Springfield and its many warped characters. Although the various members of the Simpsons clan hog the limelight for most of the missions, the supporting cast is impressively large and every one comes out with some absolute gems that will have even hardened miserablists cackling inanely.
In the addition to the top-quality characters, the storyline’s of true Simpsons vintage too, with all manner of typical conspiracy theories contributing to some classy entertainment; Homer desperately paranoid at the appearance of black vans in the neighbourhood, Bart determined to get hold of a copy of the banned Bonestorm Storm 2 videogame, Lisa chasing after the ever-desperate Millhouse’s clues as to her brother’s whereabouts, and so on. It’s all highly amusing stuff, and does a decent job of tempting you through the game.
Synopsis[edit]
Following the release of a new Buzz Cola, strange events are happening all around Springfield. Homer notices a surveillance van spying on him and Bart disappears into a bright light. When Bart is found he is in a stupor but returns to normal when shown Buzz Cola. He reveals that he saw it on an alien spaceship and that it is used to control minds. Kang and Kodos are found to be responsible as they plan to make people go insane by infusing the cola into Springfield’s water supply which will also have the ability to raise the dead. Playing as the Simpson family (sans Maggie) and Apu, they go around Springfield investigating the areas of such events to find out what is happening and the secret behind it.
The Best Simpsons: Hit & Модификации «Беги» — Моэ-линчеватель
Мо Сизлак — известный персонаж в Симпсонах как владелец бара Moe’s Bar и тот, кто постоянно становится жертвой телефонных розыгрышей Барта. Мо также является любимым персонажем фанатов, он быстро приходит в ярость, но у него есть и чувствительная сторона, которую он изо всех сил пытается передать. Как один из быстро впадающих в ярость персонажей Симпсонов, который часто оказывается втянутым в дикие планы, вполне логично, что он был бы отличным игровым персонажем в Симпсоны: Hit & Беги.
Хотя неизвестно, будет ли Simpsons: Hit & Run 2 произойдет и позволит игрокам играть за Мо, мод под названием Moe the Vigilante доступен для игроков, чтобы играть за всеми любимого бармена в оригинальной игре. Мо задолжал по долгам мафии, поэтому теперь игроки должны помешать мафии разрушить его клиентов и бизнес. С семью пользовательскими миссиями игроки, несомненно, весело проведут время. Этот мод доступен на NexusMods и создан Duffhause.
Input[edit]
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| Remapping | Tutorials will always refer to the default controls. | |
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| Controller remapping | No way to rebind pausing to a controller (use ). | |
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| Connection modes | USB, Bluetooth |
| Generic/other controllers | DirectInput support. | |
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| Haptic feedback | Use for XInput controllers. | |
| Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
On Foot Orbit Cameraedit
- This hack replaces the game’s regular on-foot camera with a more advanced, mouse-controllable, orbit camera.
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Simpsons: Hit & Мод Run’s Get Frinkfty добавляет Rick & Морти
Профессор Фринк – местный ученый-ботаник из Спрингфилда, появляющийся на разных уровнях Симпсонов: Нажмите & Бегите , чтобы помочь персонажам игроков. Хотя Фринк не является игровым персонажем, как Апу в Hit & Запустить, моддер в настоящее время меняет это. Мод Get Frinkfty от maz для Donut Team пока недоступен, но он предназначен для Симпсонови Рика и Морти.кроссовер. В нем будут представлены нестандартные автомобили, сюжетные миссии, персонажи из обоих сериалов и костюмы для Фринка. Не так много еще было выпущено, так как мод все еще находится в разработке, но этот мод, похоже, имеет интересную сюжетную линию для поклонников как Симпсонов, так и Рика и Морти. Даже те фанаты Симпсонов, которым может не понравиться Рик и Морти, должны получить удовольствие от игры за профессора Фринка.
Video[edit]
Display settings.
| Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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| Widescreen resolution | See . | ||
| Multi-monitor | See . | ||
| Ultra-widescreen | See . | ||
| 4K Ultra HD | See . | ||
| Field of view (FOV) | See . | ||
| Windowed | See . | ||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | See . | ||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | See . | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | No frame rate cap. See . |
Widescreen resolutionedit
- The game supports six hardcoded resolutions out of the box. extends this support to any resolution reported by your graphics card or manually specified in the game’s configuration file.
- By default, the game’s FOV will be adjusted in relation to your selected aspect ratio.
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Anti-aliasing (AA)edit
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Frame rate (FPS)edit
- The game was designed to run at 60 FPS[citation needed] and has problems of varying severity at framerates higher or lower than 60. Below 60 the player may clip into cars, which can pose an issue in many destruction missions.
- Above 60 FPS both player and car physics are negatively affected, causing cars to fly off edges at uncontrollable speeds and the player character to be able to jump higher than originally intended. In some cases at excessively high frame rates, the game can blue screen playing loud static sounds.
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«We’ve got to destroy it before it warps them with its bloops and bleeps!»
To kick off, Homer is tasked with a few basic mundane tasks to get players into the swing of things, and then the game quickly settles into a pattern of mission types that basically repeat throughout the game at increasing difficulty. In the main there are just three basic mission types: one-on-one racing, vehicle destruction/vehicle bumping, or object collection (or a bit of both), mostly against the clock. Some overlap, but you’ll very quickly realise what an extraordinarily simple game Hit & Run is. The scenarios differ, the characters change, and the parts of Springfield you drive around switch depending on the character, but the tasks almost entirely focus on these three areas. Occasionally there’s some basic platforming or general wandering around interiors, but in the main it’s firmly focused on the driving element.
After Homer’s seven missions (and sub-missions if you choose to seek them out — in another nod to GTA), the game switches to Bart, Lisa, Marge and Apu, with Homer and Bart given another level each later on. Along the way, you’re encouraged to explore Springfield in order to pick up the many packages that litter the alleyways and rooftops, which either act as means to unlock video clips or as extra currency with which to buy better, more powerful vehicles. Certain missions require a faster or sturdier vehicle, and any you’ve already bought can be delivered to you by walking up to any of the many phone boxes littering Springfield. On the other hand, you can just hit triangle and borrow any of the populace’s cars, which tends to come in handy when you’ve smashed yours to bits.
Mmm, DVD…
We’ve seen a few critical appraisals of Hit & Run elsewhere, and can’t quite believe how easily pleased they’ve been. It seems a case of glossing over the glaring flaws and chuckling about the script, which is entirely missing the point. Sure, as we’ve mentioned a few times, the quality of the writing, the voices and the humour are absolutely spot-on, but rather than disguise the mediocre game within, this excellence merely serves to amplify the crushing disappointment of the one dimensional gameplay, and we’re left wanting much, much more than this half arsed effort.
Committed Simpsons obsessives who live for every gag and one liner will have fun for a while, but for £40 you could buy the entire season three DVD box set and have change for doughnuts, Duff, and enough peanuts to last you all night. It’s easily the best Simpsons game ever released, but that’s not really saying much — as Lisa says: «Oooh, videogames: what a waste of money».
«If only kids would play more videogames about sharing»
But unlike GTA, no one ever actually ‘dies’, even when you’ve run them over or your vehicle blows up, and there are never any weapons lying around to sully the wholesome reputation of those cuddly Simpsons. As a game so utterly indebted to Rockstar’s opus, it feels strangely neutered to remove an element so ingrained in mission-based driving games, although on a practical licensing level you can understand it.
What you’re left with, therefore, is a safe cuddly game with a stupendously excellent script hamstrung by some terrifyingly unambitious game design that thinks it’s fine to constantly wheel out the same basic ideas, make them harder, and then boasts about there being 56 levels of it.
It’s not necessarily that endless chase/destruction/collection driving missions aren’t fun. For a while they seem like they might be, especially when accompanied by one hilarious wisecrack after another. Indeed, it’s important to emphasise just how brilliant the storyline, script and voiceovers are when compared to your standard videogame. They promote such a feel-good vibe, that’s it’s almost possible to be fooled into enjoying what otherwise would be — at times — an utterly hateful experience.
Donut Mod 4 – обязательный атрибут Simpsons: Hit & Запустить мод
В то время как многие игроки ждут новостей от Ярдли Смита о Simpsons: Hit & Запустите 2, моддеры заняты добавлением в игру. Команда Donut проделала большую работу по созданию модов для Hit & Бегайте, от модов кампании до добавления новых нарядов в игру. Из этих дополнений, сделанных Donut Team, Donut Mod 4 может быть лучшим. Есть два новых уровня, дополнительные наряды для Гомера и Барта, измененные карты и 60 новых камер для охоты на ос. Игроки, которые помнят, как играли в Simpsons: Hit & Run лет назад, возможно, вам будет интересно попробовать этот мод, чтобы увидеть изменения, внесенные Donut Team.
Геймплей[]
Игра по геймплею напоминает серию игр GTA, также присутствуют миссии и «уровень розыска». Цели Миссий делятся на несколько типов
- Гонки
- Уничтожить определенную машину
- Избежать определенную машину
- Преследовать определенную машину
- Собрать несколько предметов
- Таранить определенную машину и собирать предметы
- Доехать до пункта назначения за определенное время
При провале миссии, дается выбор: Отменить миссию, перезапуск миссии или пропустить(Доступно только после определенного количества провалов). При перезапуске миссия может начаться с начала, или с определенного места(Контрольная точка). Вся игра разделена на семь уровней с тремя локациями(Жилой квартал, Центр и порт «Кальмар»).
Gameplay[edit]
After the dialogue between the playable character and the mission character ends, this screen appears
The main menu, with Homer sleeping and the wasp camera he destroyed. When some time has passed, a random character appears outside the window and says something
Hit & Run focuses primarily on driving missions. It employs the «sandbox» format, featuring a third-person view, an explorable environment, and drivable vehicles similar to the Grand Theft Auto series. Unlike Grand Theft Auto where most cars can be hijacked or stolen, instead, the player’s character rides in the passenger’s seat of another vehicle while the owner drives. The game features a «Hit & Run meter» that brings the police after the player if it gets too high; if the player is captured by the police, (s)he is fined 50 coins. In the first 3 levels, only one police car is deployed to chase the player, but starting from level 4, two police cars are dispatched in pursuit.
Progressing though the various story levels allows the player to control Homer, Lisa, Marge, Bart, and Apu; many other Simpsons characters such as Chief Wiggum and Professor Frink appear in non-playable roles, but will also drive you in some missions.
In addition to the story missions, players can optionally participate in «bonus» missions or races which typically award unlockable cars for successful completion. Coins, the currency in the game, are acquired by hitting objects such as trees or mailboxes, destroying wasp cameras or Buzz Cola machines, or simple collection (many coins are simply scattered throughout each level). Players can use coins to purchase new vehicles or outfits for the current character; many of these can be traced directly to specific episodes of The Simpsons (e.g. Bart’s Space Shuttle-shaped Honor Roller soapbox racer or Marge’s police uniform). Many of the cars come from The Simpsons Road Rage.
Other tasksedit
To complete the game 100%, the player must complete all missions including the bonus missions and perform another series of tasks:
A number of «collector cards» depicting objects, characters, or scenes from the series are placed in each level, usually in hard-to-access areas. Collecting all of these cards in a level unlocks a track that can be played in a slot car-like racing game, and collecting all of the cards in the game unlocks an original Itchy & Scratchy short, «500-Yard Gash».
Three street race missions are assigned each level by Milhouse, Nelson and Ralph (with the exception of Level 7 where they are assigned by zombies). If the player wins all of them in a level, they unlock a car. In addition, two cars are sold per level by Gil and a secondary character such as Otto sells another car which can sometimes be compulsory for certain missions.
There are three alternate outfits for the player character to buy in each level.
There are a certain number of wasp cameras in every level to be destroyed which become increasingly difficult to beat as the game progresses.
There are a number of small interactable «gags» in every level where a short animation occurs. An example of this is when the player causes an explosion in Homer’s office.
Levelsedit
Across the seven levels, there are three different areas. Levels 1, 4 and 7 take place in Evergreen Terrace and other major landmarks such as the Nuclear Power Plant and Springfield Elementary School.
Levels 2 and 5 take place in Downtown Springfield and features areas including Moe’s Tavern and Springfield Town Hall.
Levels 3 and 6 take place in the Springfield Squidport and the Springfield Dam.
Лучшие Симпсоны: Hit & Запустите моды персонажей
Игрокам доступны три модификации, которые позволяют им играть за новых персонажей, но не дают дополнительных сюжетных миссий. Первый мод, который вводит новых персонажей, — это Multi-Character Mod от Hadley Steel в Donut Team. Этот мод позволяет игрокам исследовать Спрингфилд в роли Моулмана, Клоуна Красти, Ральфа, Неда и Барни. Печально известный Simpsons: Hit & Выполнить bootleg может озвучка одного актера, но Multi-Character Mod озвучить персонажа из других игр и различных эпизодов. Однако с этими персонажами дополнительные миссии недоступны.
Вторая игра Simpsons: Hit & Модификация персонажей Run — это мод дополнительных персонажей, созданный Donut Team и Yzma. Этот мод позволяет игрокам играть за большее количество персонажей, таких как Энни Дубински, Сумасшедшая кошатница и Сайдшоу Боб. Жирный Тони и Кирк Ван Хаутен также доступны для игры, и у них есть дополнительные костюмы. Как и мод Multi-Character Mod, этот мод добавляет только персонажей и не содержит дополнительной сюжетной линии.
Еще один мод, который позволяет игрокам играть в Симпсонов: Нажмите & Бегите за нового персонажа по имени Мясной Человек. Игроки играют за кусок мяса, бегая по Спрингфилду и выполняя миссии. Это глупый мод, который не добавляет в игру никакого дополнительного контента, но он забавный. Meat Man был создан Duffhause и доступен на NexusMods.
Issues fixed[edit]
Refuses to load past initial copyright screenedit
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«When will they learn? Videogames don’t kill people; they just kill their minds…»
And it’s not just the game design that’s conspires to limit your enjoyment either. There’s a list of technical issues as long as my arm that would bug the hell out of even the most patient gamer. First of all, the actual driving physics are nothing short of atrocious, making the very basis of the game a chore from the off. Cars slide apologetically and unresponsively around the streets, and even after many hours it’s a struggle to ever feel like you’re in control. To compound the issue, it’s all too easy to trip up in among the game engine’s limitations, resulting in your vehicle getting caught up in all manner of improbable situations. One time, we made a leap of faith through an obvious short cut, only to nose dive into a bizarre gap that left our hapless vehicle wobbling desperately face down in an attempt to correct itself. This was by no means an isolated incident. Consistently your vehicle falls on its side, only to magically wobble back. What is this? Jelly Baby racing?
The dreaded camera issues persistently disorientate the player, with an unending array of sloppy incidents that make it regularly impossible to see what on earth is going on. Really, this is third generation PS2 gaming — and it’s unacceptable that games loaded with these kind of basic technical issues should be allowed to be sold for £40.
Reception[edit]
The game received generally favorable reviews, an average of 81/100 score from critics. The game did well in sales as well, selling over 5.5 million copies worldwide as of June 2009. The game received an editor’s choice award from GameSpy and it won the award for Fave Video Game at the 2004 Nickelodeon Australian Kids’ Choice Awards.
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The Simpsons: Hit & Run |
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| Levels |
| Level 1 • Level 2 • Level 3 • Level 4 • Level 5 • Level 6 • Level 7 |
| Characters |
| Homer • Bart • Lisa • Marge • Apu • |
| Vehicles |
| Pink Sedan • Honor Roller • Malibu Stacy Car • Canyonero • Pontiac Firebird • 70’s Sport Car |
| Locations |
| Evergreen Terrace • Downtown Springfield • Springfield Squidport |
| Others |
| References/Trivia • Appearances • Extras • Credits • Quotes • Cards |
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The Simpsons video games |
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| Console/Computer games |
| The Simpsons Arcade Game • Bart vs. the Space Mutants • Bart vs. the World • Bart Simpson’s Escape from Camp Deadly • Bart’s House of Weirdness • Bart vs. the Juggernauts • Krusty’s Fun House • Bartman Meets Radioactive Man • Bart’s Nightmare • Itchy & Scratchy in Miniature Golf Madness • Virtual Bart • Bart & the Beanstalk • The Itchy & Scratchy Game • Cartoon Studio • Virtual Springfield • Bug Squad! • Bowling • Wrestling • Night of the Living Treehouse of Horror • Road Rage • Skateboarding • Hit & Run • The Simpsons Game |
| Mobile games |
| Minutes to Meltdown • Arcade • Tapped Out • Itchy & Scratchy Land |
| Non-The Simpsons |
| Lego Dimensions |
| Pinball |
| The Simpsons • The Simpsons Pinball Party |
| Handheld |
| Bart vs. Homersaurus • Bartman: Avenger of Evil • Bart Simpson’s Cupcake Crisis • The Simpsons Electronic LCD Game • The Simpsons 20Q |
| Fruit machines/Arcade |
| Homer’s Meltdown • The Simpsons Skateboard Stomp |
| Other software |
| The Simpsons Comics iOS • The Simpsons Screen Saver • The Simpsons Ride Sneak Peak Bonus CD-ROM • The Simpsons Unleashed |
