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Not Compatable

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 35
Date: November 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this product for a brand new highest end Dell laptop on the market. When I tried to get this game to install on my computer, it would not work. I called customer support (which was very poor) they told me that there was no laptop on the market that has the video card needed to play this game.

I can't comment on the game, but DONT BUY THIS GAME UNLESS YOU HAVE A DESKTOP WITH THE SPECIFIED VIDEO CARD. I am very dissapointed.

Homer Has the Right Opinion....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: December 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This video game sucks. I never thought anything could make me hate the Simpsons, but this game is it. On a PC, you can't control the vehicles well enough to get a car out of a driveway without hitting something, which would be all right if there weren't a time requirement for every mission. Afterr hitting something coming out of the driveway, you proceed to hit everything in sight until your time is up and you've failed the mission, at which time the game asks you if you'd like to waste another 5 minutes failing the mission again. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!! IT IS A COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY!!!!

I HATE THIS GAME...IT's TOO HARD!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: January 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

the game starts out so awesome, exploring the Simpson's world is great. But by level three it sucks. the races are IMPOSSIBLY HARD. It is leg-poundingly frustrating. You'll end up doing a race 40 times before you give up. and they are just the same repetitive stuff every level. Its almost worth it to ignore the races and just explore the levels which are great, but how could anyone think this is fun when its so hard? The game designers really screwed up.

A shame...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: February 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

At first, I could install the game, but I could not play it. I got a message that an error occurred in Simpsons.exe, which seemed utterly ridiculous.
Then, I upgraded to XP, and I couldn't even install the game! I kept getting an error that I had the "wrong volume" of the CD in the drive. The readme file said that it was because my drives' drivers were out-of-date (even though I could install the game previously). Thus, the game is basically a coaster because thus far, nothing I have done has worked.
I *have* actually played the game, and it is loads of fun, but I think it is almost criminal that software companies can sell games that do not work.

Might like it- if it would work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: April 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I can get as far as installing it. Then whenever I try to start it I get DirectX 3D errors. Don't get the PC version if you have a laptop- and even with a desktop, make sure all your audio/video card drivers are up to date- or this game is essentially a $30 coaster. I've uninstalled it and am waiting for Vivendi to release a patch(if they ever will, that is). My brother has a Gamecube, so I bought that version of the game, and It was good. But I never could get this one to work on my laptop.

Crashes on startup

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: November 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The commercials look great; the clips on their site also look fun. It's just too bad I cannot play this game.

My machine meets the requirements, but the game crashes when I try to start it. Wait for a patch before spending any money on it (assuming, of course, that one will be released).

What, no option to give it 0?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: February 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is THE worst electronic game ever written.

Oh sure, I've played a lot of (beep) games in my life. Realmz, Guest, Streets of SimCity, The Sims, You Don't Know Jack, Lemmings: Revolution, Super Nisqually, Toon Twister 3D, CroMag Rally and the old-fashioned Super Collapse (#1)! But nothing can ever top The Simpsons Hit & Run. Even a programmer who had made no games would have a hard time writing one as bad as this.

I can come up with 10 things I hate about this game:

1. They show little movies and don't let you skip them.
2. There are less than 5 kinds of different missions.
3. Painful's the kindest thing to say about the missions. They give you so little time to do ANYTHING. Your opponent is given the benefit of Super Suspension, making his vehicle much faster. The programmers will do everything they can to make sure U lose!
4. The animation is boring--the direct same as The Simpsons: Road Rage.
5. No original lines of dialogue--and Homer's lines have cursing in them.
6. When you try to break through the glass, you have to go really fast, otherwise you will fall through.
7. The camera is frequently framed as if it weren't sure where it was.
8. If you lose the missions, you can press the "No" button when it asks "Do You Want To Try This Mission Again?" only to have you redo it.
9. I own a Gateway computer and so did not having trouble installing; however, the installation on other computers sounds absolutely agonizing.
10. This is probably the worst part of all: At the end of the game, a hypnotic symbol comes up telling you to think that everything about the game was a grade up from not only Bart vs. the Space Mutants but also Virtual Springfield and yes, The Simpsons: Road Rage, thus making U think that it is the best Simpsons game of all time. Thank god electronic games don't have a user rating at the IMDB.com or else this game might be in the Top 250, with The Godfather and Se7en and countless others.

Anyway, whenever I hear Vivendi Universal's name mentioned I retch. Universal should feel some contamination or at least embarassment for their association with this garbage. If there is a worse game, I don't want to know.

Rating: -1/10

THE WORST GAME EVER WRITTEN!

A Pity

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: January 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I must say this because of the fact that the missions are impossible. They don't give you enough time in any of the missions. If you do complete it, your lucky. In the races they don't give you even the slightest bit of equality in the later races. If you do want a chance to beat the races get every car ahead of time and good luck.

As the comic book guy Would say: WORST GAME EVER!!!!

Yuck!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: January 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I got this so called "best simpsons game ever" for christmas. It started out good, with nice un-frustrating missions. But then you get up the the "frustrating point". This game is EXTREMELY frustrating. Okay, Okay, I'm not a very patient person, but if you've played this then you'll know excactly what I mean. Although the extras like costumes from Simpsons Eps like Homer with A Donut Head and Lisa as Florida are pretty cool, this game is still annoying. "The First Great Simpsons Game Ever" oh please, more like "The Third Worst Simpsons Game Ever". This is not worth $70.
PS: I LOVE The Simpsons TV Series.

THE WORST GAME INSTALLATION EVER!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: July 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I GOT THE SAME ERROR MESSAGES AS OTHERS BELOW WHEN TRYING TO INSTALL THIS PIECE OF CR*P 5 TIMES, AND EVEN HAD TO RE-INSTALL MY DIRECTX FROM MICROSOFT'S WEBSITE TO RESTORE THE ONE THIS GAME CORRUPTED!!! I NEVER EVEN GOT A SINGLE GAME SCREEN & I PLAY GAMES ALL THE TIME!!!! SAVE YOURSELF THE TROUBLE & BUY BIG MUTHA TRUCKERS, OR MONSTER TRUCK MADNESS 2!!!!

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