GTA meets The Simpsons. A match made in heaven?
The Simpsons: Hit & Run America’s favourite cartoon family has released yet another game this time instead of a skateboarding game (The Simpsons Skateboarding) or a pure driving game (The Simpsons: Road Rage) they’ve made a game more like gta but without guns and a believable story line. Hit and Run follows the Simpsons and Apu Nasapeen-Nasa-Nasa you know his name around Springfield. Each character has their own part of Springfield like Homer has Evergreen Terrace, Bart has Downtown (on the 2nd level) and so on. Each character has their own clothes to wear as well as the ordinary clothes, on each level there are 3 outfits to buy from places like the Kwik-E-Mart, Moe’s Tavern and the school. Each costume has a reference to an episode like Apu’s american outfit is from when all immigrants without an american ID would get sent back to their “home” country and uses a fake made by the mob. On every level there’s a variety of unlockable cars to be had by buying them or winning them after completing bonus missions or winning all 3 races on each level. Some of the best cars in the game are Professor Frink’s Hover car (it turns invisible when going a certain speed), the open wheel race car (really really fast) and Snake’s Bandit. There is a variety of secret cars hidden around Springfield, 1 per level, they are:
1st level-rocket car
2nd level-monorail
3rd level-speed boat on wheels
4th level-quad bike
5th level-monster truck
6th level-?
7th level-remote control car  In Hit and Run there is a assortment of secrets like the collector cards, if you get them all on one level, 7 per level, you unlock an extra race track from the main menu and if you get every card on the game you can buy a movie ticket on Lisa’s level and watch a special Itchy and Scratchy cartoon in 3D. Each card has something to do with an episode (like the clothes) and if you look in the pause menu option for collector cards you’ll see a quote from the episodes. The cards normally have something to do with the person but on the last level where Springfield’s overtaken by zombies the cards are based on the Halloween specials. Hit and Run also features alot of secrets called gags you need to get all these to complete the game plus you get coins (for buying clothes and cars) for each one these are like flinging cats out of catapults and talking to Mayor Quimby through an intercom about how he wants to spend an evening home with the “sigh” wife. A number of flying wasp cameras are hiding around Springfield and need to be destroyed to complete the game and give out LOADS of coins but for each level they become better so at the start it’s really easy to kill them but at the end they have shields so you need to hit them twice to kill them.
 (spoiler warning) The killer wasps may be a bit confusing but the reason they’re in Springfield is Kang and Kodos, the aliens, are filming Springfield for intergalactic television and when the humans drink the new Buzz Cola they have their minds taken over by the aliens. The aliens then let Buzz Cola into the water streams making the dead rise from their graves, make sense? Oh yeah and the wasp cameras are for filming the humans. Although I’ve only really talked about the secrets the gameplay’s the star of the show it’s like the kids’ version of GTA you can drive around, beating people up (you can only kick). The cars on Hit and Run don’t handle very well but are still great fun to drive, I can still remember my first Hit & Run. After driving along the pavement hearing someone shout “This is the worst town in America!” as I ran them and everyone else over, the police came speeding round the corner like mad men, back then I followed the roads but they banged me into a wall and got me BUSTED! but now I will take every shortcut and I’ve mastered the dodgy handling so I rule over the police HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! ahem. V
Although there are some problems with it, it is a great game which takes brilliantly from GTA and gives loads to fans with lines and jokes from the show. Plus it recreates springfield perfectly, you'll spend ages just messing around on it.


P.S. note good glitch use press L3 for car to jump cheat, squarex3 triangle, then when at waterfall on Lisa’s or Bart’s(6th) level press L3 to jump into the sea, NOT the waterfall!, you can now drive about ON the sea!!!!!!