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The Simpsons Road Rage: Games
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The Simpsons Road Rage blends renowned Simpsons wit and edge-of-your-seat racing action into a rip-roaring, reckless and riotously-funny arcade-style driving game. Mr. Burns is up to his greedy ways again, purchasing the Springfield Transit Corporation and jacking up the fares. Refusing to shell out the high rates, Springfield citizens are forced into humorous “road rage” as they brave angry commuters, jam-packed back-routes and the challenge to make enough money to buy back the Transit Corporation before time runs out. No time for donuts, Homer.
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There are three different difficulty levels in The Simpsons Road Rage. Each level offers a different amount of time to start off with in the Road Rage game. Other than difficulty level, the various locations and characters add complexity to the task, as you have to learn new routes and vehicles in order to make good time in the game.
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The town of Springfield has never been recreated so well in any other Simpsons game before Hit & Run. Many familiar locales from the TV show such as the “Tomacco” fields are found in the game, and other references to classic episodes that one would think would be left forgotten in a Simpsons video game are included as well. For instance, a couple of years ago Springfield was split into two different Area Codes. With the rich part of town getting the original “636” area code, while the Joe Schmos such as Homer, Lenny, and Carl got the “939” area code. Oddly, this caused a mini Civil War, where newly dubbed mayor of “New Springfield” Homer J. Simpson built a wall (out of 90% recycled materials) separating the two districts and then tricking the British rock band “The Who” to ditch their originally scheduled concert at “Olde Springfield” to play exclusively at “New Springfield”… Now, what does this have to do with Hit & Run? Well, in the game you’ll notice signs which distinguish the area code changes made in that particular episode… While details such as these would prove to be a trivial aspect to most, fans of the show will definitely take notice.
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The Simpsons Road Rage brings the lighthearted mission-based driving of Crazy Taxi to the characters, settings, and amusing sense of ennui cultured in the popular animated television series. The physics model is purposefully exaggerated to allow impossible trick maneuvers and arcade-style control. ~ Scott Alan Marriott, All Game Guide
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Road Rage is no exception, even if it is by far the best Simpsons game ... far. Road Rage is a shadow of Sega's Crazy Taxi, the game it's clearly based on. The plot is, at least as zany as any found on the show, even if it doesn't ultimately matter. Monty Burns has taken over all the public transportation in Springfield, using radioactive busses no less, and charging exorbitant rates. Wanting a piece of the action, Homer decides to transform his pink family sedan into a taxi service.
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In a final bit of grace, EA Games has a special treat for Xbox owners who purchase The Simpsons Road Rage -- no load times between the games six maps! A treat indeed, considering Playstation 2 owners will just have to wait for each map to load during transitions.
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