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. Summary: The Simpsons Game features a hilarious, sprawling, and mind-busting storyline crafted by the TV show's Emmy Award-winning writers. The action-comedy also features the full cast of voice actors from the TV show who reprise their roles for the game. In The Simpsons Game, Homer, Marge, Bart, The Simpsons Game features a hilarious, sprawling, and mind-busting storyline crafted by the TV show's Emmy Award-winning writers. The action-comedy also features the full cast of voice actors from the TV show who reprise their roles for 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 popular games.

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'The Simpsons Game' is a video game which is available for the Wii, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation Portable. 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.

.: November 5, 2007.: November 9, 2007.: November 15, 2007,Mode(s),The Simpsons Game is an based on the animated, made for the,. The game was developed, published, and distributed.

It was released in North America in October 2007 and worldwide in November 2007. It features an original storyline written by The Simpsons writers,.

In the plot, the family discovers that they are forced to participate in another The Simpsons video game. Similar to the show, the game pokes fun at, other video games, and Electronic Arts, its publisher.The game follows the five Simpson family members—, (with ), and —who learn they are part of a video game and are given superpowers to resolve several situations. Eventually, they must save their predecessors from, and the creator of their video game character selves,. 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.The game was met with mixed reception from video game critics. They praised its visuals and writing, which included many parodies of other video games, while they criticized its short length and poor, which did not always function properly. The Simpsons Game received the Best Game Based on a Movie or TV Show award at the 2007 and was nominated for Best Video Game Writing at the. As of January 31, 2008, four million copies of the game have been sold worldwide.

Bart and Lisa battle Dolphins in the episode – 'The Day of the Dolphin', showing both the gameplay and the graphical style.Homer is the first playable character available in 'The Land of Chocolate' level. His abilities involve turning into the 'Homer ball' by eating food to let him roll and slam objects; turn into a Gummi Homer by eating small to shoot gummi; eat hot to become Insanity Pepper Homer to use and fire bombs; and inhale to become a balloon to float in the air. Homer's special power is a giant burp, which can stun enemies. Bart first appears in the second level of the game 'Bartman Begins'. He can turn into, allowing him to use, climb certain walls, glide over long distances, and do other acrobatic feats.

Bart's special power is releasing a flood of bats towards enemies. He can use his to defeat enemies and hit targets from afar.Lisa is introduced in the fourth level 'Lisa the Tree Hugger'. Her main attack style is kicking, and her power is the 'Hand of Buddha'. She can use it to flick, smash, freeze, or send lightning bolts to enemies, as well as lift certain items.

Lisa's special power is playing her to attack and stun enemies. As the levels progress, Lisa can use her saxophone to turn enemies against each other. Is the least-playable character. Introduced in the fifth level, 'Mob Rules', Marge learns her power is to make large crowds obey her. She can use her mob to break down obstacles, build objects, attack enemies, and repair objects.

Maggie is, in effect, an extension of Marge, briefly playable in air ducts and other small spaces. Plot The game begins with Homer having a candy-induced fantasy about a world of chocolate (from the episode ') where he tries to catch and eat a white chocolate rabbit; upon waking up he is upset to find that it was just a dream.Meanwhile, Bart goes to the video game store and coerces the clerk to let him buy the new and violent Grand Theft Scratchy game (a parody of ), despite him being underage; only to have it confiscated by Marge once he leaves the store. While Bart mopes with boredom, a video game manual falls down from the sky in front of him. Reading through the manual, Bart discovers that he and the rest of his family have special powers. Bart uses his Bartman powers to stop the school bullies, and from stealing from the Natural History Museum sent by to use the museum exhibits for the science class, Homer uses his ability to become a huge ball and win an, Lisa uses her powers of meditation to stop a project, and Marge uses her powers to influence crowds to stop the release of Grand Theft Scratchy in, although Lisa points out it is ironic that she used violence to stop a violent game from being sold.During dinner in the evening, the family is euphoric with their new powers.

However, it leads to an argument about what they should be doing with them. Aliens decide to strike Earth, and an unfolds. Realizing none of their powers are strong enough to defeat the aliens, Bart and Lisa visit. They visit his house to find him not there, but they stumble upon a portal that sends them to a place called the where all video games are created.

After saving him from a (in a level similar to the 1981 arcade game), Frink gives them The Simpsons Game 's player's strategy guide to teach them how to better use their powers as well as gain new ones, and the Simpson family soon sets out to try and stop the alien invasion. First, Bart and Lisa assist in fighting back mind-controlled dolphins that are attacking the city aquarium. Then, Bart and Homer defeat the Lard Lad statue which has come to life. Finally, they save the Springfield Mall and from an alien force led by.In order to find out the truth, the family turns to the Internet to discover more about the powers they have in the game, but are accidentally sent to the game engine when Homer accidentally spills a can of over the keyboard. There, they discover, who is destroying copies of an old The Simpsons game entitled Escape From Krusty Island (a spoof title based on ) and its characters.

The family manages to save their 8-Bit predecessors before they are destroyed by Wright, and discover that they will also become obsolete when the next The Simpsons game is released. The only way to prevent this is to talk to the creator of the games and convince him not to destroy them.

In order to access his mansion, the family needs to acquire four key cards from four upcoming Simpsons games. First, Homer and Marge defeat a two-headed dragon whose heads are those of Patty and Selma in the Neverquest game. Marge and Lisa travel to Grand Theft Scratchy, eliminating all offensive material and replacing it with more family-friendly material. Next, Homer and Bart travel to during to thwart Mr. Burns' plan to steal priceless French paintings, in the Medal of Homer game. Lisa and Homer travel to ancient Japan to defeat the evil Mr.

Dirt and his 'Sparklemon' in the Big Super Happy Fun Fun Game.Once they have all four key cards, Bart and Homer infiltrate the creator's mansion. They are greeted by, who sends characters and after them. The family manages to defeat them, however, Groening admits that he is only creating new games for the money, and destroys the game engine. The Simpsons, along with several other characters from the games, escape to Springfield, where the aliens are still attacking.

Lisa uses her power to create a stairway to heaven in order for the family to ask God for help. Along the way they have to defeat deceased historical figures and, and several other recycled enemies that the family tormented in previous episodes. After God is defeated in a game of, he reveals that the video game that they are in is a mini-game in another video game about Earth. He dropped the video game manual by accident, thus endowing the family with superpowers. Realizing his mistake, he promises to restore Springfield, let them keep their powers, and to improve the working conditions of all video game characters.

He also gives Homer three wishes. Lisa asks if God ever wonders if he is a character himself in a video game. As God nervously scoffs at this theory, it turns out that is playing the entire game before he looks at the screen, wondering who was looking at him. Development. Electronic Arts' Redwood Shores team, based in, developed The Simpsons Game, and Electronic Arts published and distributed it.The game's storyline was written by, and, who are all regular writers on The Simpsons.

They wanted to create something that appealed to the fans of the show, and was, in its own right, 'a great new game'. And the writers had continuous feedback on the game's content, from its 'look and feel' to its puzzles and gameplay. The game's, Scot Amos, said it was an amazing partnership between the writers and the developers. Selman, the head writer, says the reason they decided to call it The Simpsons Game and not add a subtitle was because they felt it was a restart of 'the 'Simpsons' gaming franchise. a big, new, fresh game that takes on video games and hilarious things of all time'. Matt Selman was the head writer of The Simpsons Game.The Simpsons Game was published by and developed by its subsidiary,; the company had signed a contract for the video game rights to The Simpsons in 2005.

The game's lead designer, Greg Rizzer, said that when he asked his bosses if they could parody some Electronic Arts games including, they were enthusiastic about it. The Simpsons Game, which parodies video games from 30 years prior to 2007, was forced to have some of its content removed after several video game companies complained about it.

Although, Electronic Arts were still allowed to make parodies of previous games they had published. Rizzer, however, was still pleased with the amount of parody in the game and considered The Simpsons the 'perfect vehicle to poke fun at the games industry'. At the 2007 in, a poster for 'Grand Theft Scratchy', one of the levels in The Simpsons Game and a parody of, was asked to be taken down by an employee of, the company that develops the Grand Theft Auto series of video games. Several companies, however, embraced the game's parody of their video games, including developers from, who were pleased with the game's 'Sitar Hero', a parody of Harmonix's video game. In addition to game parodies, The Simpsons Game also features several cameos with satirical spins, including Matt Groening as himself and Will Wright as an antagonist.The graphics for the game's characters are, and an implemented technique helps flatten the character models from any angle that the camera views them from, in order to recreate the 2D, hand-drawn look seen in the show.

The development team found it particularly difficult to render Lisa's spiky hair as 2D in the game's 3D environment. There is a different cover for the game on each console.On October 28, 2019, a Simpsons prototype dating back to March 8, 2004, was uncovered by Hidden Palace user Tdijital on an Xbox XDK hard drive alongside files for, another title developed by EA Redwood Shores, possibly meaning EA was developing a Simpsons game before even acquiring the rights. It is believed to be a proof of concept.Reception ReceptionAggregate scoreAggregatorScore69% (DS)68% (PS2)71% (PS3)59% (PSP)64% (Wii)71% (X360)Review scoresPublicationScoreB+ (DS)6 of 10 (X360)7.25 of 10 (PS3)7.5 of 10 (DS)7.0 of 10 (PS2)6.5 of 10 (Wii)3.5 of 5 (X360)7.9 of 10 (X360)GameZone7.9 of 10 (DS)7.3 of 10 (X360)7.7 of 10 (DS)7.7 of 10 (PS3)7.0 of 10 (PSP)7 of 10 (X360)The game received mixed to positive reception, receiving an aggregated score of 71% on for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version of the game. Praise focused on the game's visuals and writing, which lampooned the gaming industry and the show itself. The Simpsons Game won the award for Best Game Based on a Movie or TV Show at the 2007, and was nominated for the first-ever award for Best Video Game Writing at the. As of January 31, 2008, four million copies of the game have been sold overall. Its PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS releases each received a 'Platinum' sales award from the (ELSPA), indicating sales of at least 300,000 copies per version in the United Kingdom.

ELSPA presented the game's Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation Portable versions with 'Silver' certifications, for sales of 100,000 units or more each in the region. Peter Nowak of named it the third-best game of 2007 and described it as 'easily the best game starring the wacky residents of Springfield'.The game's use of The Simpsons-style humor received a mixed reception. Both and said that the game delivered more than enough laughs to make it worth playing through at least once. It was considered enjoyable for both hardcore and casual The Simpsons fans by and, who also called it a particularly appealing game for diehard fans.

Despite the few problems that the game had, said that it was worth it to see the humorous parodies. 's Tom Bramwell, however, believed that the game's humor could only carry it so far, and suggested that those interested in The Simpsons humor should purchase a of one of the television series' seasons instead. Joe Juba of called the game an average experience. He elaborated that the game would appeal primarily to fans of the television series, but would not be worth playing for people unfamiliar with it.Eurogamer praised the involvement of people from The Simpsons television series with the game's development and GameZone enjoyed the two-character mechanics of the game and had fun collecting unlockable items.

GameTrailers thought the graphics and animations looked great and appreciated the hand-drawn appearances, even though they found it obvious that the characters were 'never really meant to jump into the third dimension' because of their second-dimension roots.Criticism of the game focused on its short, uninspiring gameplay and troublesome. GameSpot considered the gameplay 'nothing special' while GameZone called it a 'pretty shallow' game that depended too much on repetitive jumping puzzles and a weak combat system. The game disappointed IGN because it did not include an online feature and it was deemed too short. The camera system was found to be problematic by both GameZone and GameSpy, who called it 'a pain' and a 'busted' feature; GameDaily also found it bothersome because it often got stuck.The DS version of the game, which was significantly different from the other versions, received praise for its unique gameplay, but criticism for its short length. IGN lauded the DS version's unique gameplay experience and GameSpot proclaimed that it was satisfying from start to finish.

GameSpot and GameZone, however, were both disappointed that the game was extremely brief. 1UP found that even though The Simpsons Game parodied numerous 2D platform game conventions, it used them anyway, making it a pointless endeavor. Cancelled sequel Electronic Arts planned to produce a sequel to the game, entitled The Simpsons Game 2, along with a Nintendo Wii version of, but both were cancelled in 2011 because the studio decided to make room for other projects. ^ Ahearn, Nate (2007-10-29). Retrieved 2008-12-13.

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