The Simpsons: Hit & Run

It's up to the Simpsons cast to save Springfield in this open-world driving game.

PlayStation 2

GameCube

Xbox

Overview

The game features iconic Simpsons locations.

The Simpsons Hit and Run is an open world action/adventure game based on the hit cartoon series The Simpsons. The game was developed by Radical Entertainment, published by Vivendi Universal and released for the Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, PlayStation 2 and PC on September 16th in North America and October 24th in Europe. The voice cast of the television series all reprise their roles as the residents of Springfield. The game received generally positive reviews upon release, with experts commending its fun gameplay and visual representation of the Simpsons universe.

The game is entirely backward compatible with the Xbox 360, with emulation only suffering from slight "screen tearing" at times.

Story

The story was penned by the writers of the television series and includes five different playable characters: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Apu. The player is tasked with discovering the root of the mysterious events happening in Springfield; as a swarm of robot wasps are unleashed upon the city.

Gameplay

The game employs an 'open-world' style of play, with many play elements borrowed from the Grand Theft Auto games, albeit with significantly more family friendly overtones. For example, instead of car jacking, the player simply gets in the vehicle with the driver.

Collectibles

Costumes

Over the course of the game, the player collects coins that can be spent in a variety of ways. One way of spending these coins is to buy additional outfits for the different characters, many of which are referential to specific episodes of the show.

Homer

Homer Casual
Homer Muumuu (King-Size Homer, Season 7)
Homer normal
Homer Chosen One (Homer the Great, Season 6)
Homer Dirty
Evil Homer
Donut-Headed Homer

Bart

Bart Tall (Radioactive Man, Season 7)
Bart Ninja
Bart Normal
Bart Football (Bart Star, Season 9)
Bart's Good Twin Hugo
Bart Cadet
Bartman

Lisa

Lisa Cool (Summer of 4ft 2, Season 7)
Lisa Floreda ($pringfield, Season 5)
Lisa Hockey (Lisa on Ice, Season 6)
Lisa Normal

Marge

Marge Normal
Marge Classy (Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield, Season 7)
Marge Police (The Springfield Connection, Season 6)
Marge Intimate

Apu

Apu Army
Apu American (Much Apu About Noting, Season 7)
Apu B-Sharps (Homer's Barbershop Quartet, Season 5)
Apu Normal

Vehicles

Like the clothing, many of the vehicles in Hit & Run can be purchased using coins. However, others are unlocked by winning races and completing character specific side missions both of which have one of each located within each of the games levels 7 levels.

The vehicles unlockable at each of the game's 7 levels are shown below: