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The Simpsons Road Rage: Games
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As an unconventional driving game, The Simpsons Road Rage turns the various characters from the much loved TV show into glorified taxi cab drivers. You begin the game with the main Simpson clan as the available selection of drivers. Each has their own special car, and as you play the game and earn money from cab fares, other characters and cars are unlocked. You ... start off with one location, Evergreen Terrace, a section of Springfield that includes the elementary school and church, as well as Krusty Burger and Kwik-E Mart. You also unlock other locations during the game by earning money.
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[W]hile the two games share the same premise, The Simpsons Road Rage controls nothing like the game it tries to emulate. Road Rage suffers from a number of problems, not the least of which is bad collision detection. You'll often find yourself clipping a corner of a building or slamming into another car even though you have room to spare. Likewise, the car physics are somewhat suspect--they simply don't feel as "solid" as those in Crazy Taxi. Instead, they feel extremely slippery and are overly sensitive to any kind of control input. The loading times before and after each game ... a little long, and you'll often find yourself mashing buttons in frustration during the numerous results screens that you're not allowed to skip after each session.
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To be fair, The Simpsons Road Rage offers a few perks its predecessor did not. First and foremost: it's The Simpsons. You have all the original voice actors doing their characters, all the familiar locations of Springfield, and more than one familiar visual gag that will bring out the Simpsons fan in you. that certain other game recently, this title will seem more than a bit familiar to you.
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The Simpsons Road Rage solves the biggest problem associated with 3D racing games on Game Boy Advance: delivering a credible sense of speed at a solid frame rate. The action moves briskly without a hint of slowdown, but it comes at a cost most players won't be able to accept. In order to keep the game moving at a fast-paced clip, the developers decided to flatten the courses to a single plane reminiscent of Mode-7 titles on Super NES or Super Mario Kart and F-Zero on the handheld. While this system works fine for "pure" racing titles on clearly defined tracks, it's horrible in a mission-based game that is supposed to give players complete freedom of movement.
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The Simpsons Road Rage blends renowned Simpsons wit and edge-of-your-seat racing action to create a fun, reckless and riotously funny arcade-style driving game. In this new interactive Simpsons episode, players can take control of one of 22 of their favorite characters including Apu, Barney and Marge, as they embark on the wacky, but skill-based missions. In order to earn enough money to buy back the Transit Corporation from Mr. Burns, gamers must drive through the city picking up passengers and taking them where they want to go. Players must drive like hell, crash through obstacles, dodge traffic or bash their way through passengers and cargo before time runs out.
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Overall, Simpsons Road Rage is a very average game that fails to really deliver on either the Simpsons license or the Crazy Taxi inspired gameplay. It is fun for a while, but the gameplay is so shallow that the game will probably become boring rather quickly. For die-hard fans of The Simpsons... it is sort of entertaining to just play through and see all of the characters. It is an average game through and through, but the license is enough that it may be worth a purchase for some people. For Simpsons fans, it is fun enough to spend a weekend with if you get the chance, but everyone else should avoid the game the same way you avoided the console versions.
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