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Game Rage

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you are a BIG fan of the Simpsons, go buy it you will like it no matter what anyone says.

Now for those of you looking for something to play. This game is very easy to play which makes things nice. The down side is the missions are so boring. Once you figure out which pattern to take the game becomes incredibly easy. Go to point A to B to C to D to E back to A and repeat.

The extra missions will [upset] you.... You wait for 1 to 2 minutes to load a 20 to 50 second mission. When you win you wait another 1 to 2 minutes to save. On average you will play a mission 3 times. So lets do some math here. 10 missions x 2 minutes x 3 replays = 60 minutes of waiting. 10 missions x 45 seconds of play x 3 replays is 22 minutes of play. Thats worse then watching TV.

I would like to say the game can be for children buy I cannot. All be it the game is easy. It has some very annoying hangups.
1. The simple road rage patterns take the fun out the of the game.
2. The missions only give you just enough time to complete it make one steering mistake and you bought it. Make the correct steering choice and you will have 5 seconds left at the end of the mission.
3. Minor glitches add to the frustration. You can be driving straight and just hit something invisible. This is not an issue in Road Rage, but it is in the Missions which will [upset you] after the first time it happens.
4. The look and feel of the game could have been better, personally.

Not worth the money to buy this, rent na, borrow maybe.

If you got this as a gift I am sorry.

Stupidest Game Ever!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I first got this game for Christmas I though it was going to be the Greatest Game Ever...ANT! WRONG ANSWER! It was sweet at first but then it just got stupid and boring! The graphics give you major hedaches and dizzyness and they just arent good. If your lookin for a ssssswwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeettttttt drive-&-pick up game, definatly get one of the 3 Crazy Taxies.

What a load of crap

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is just like Crazy Taxi except done in the most horrific way possible...

1 out of 5 stars! This game had like no good gameplay except pick up people and drop em off and a very short story mode...Which is also crap...

Nothing really to do except listening to annoying bad music which isn't even good and really really bad gameplay....

Hit and Run is waaaaaaaaaaaaay better then this malarchy....

1 out 5 HORRIBLE GAME!

Lates..

LOAD TIME IS WAY TO LONG

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

THis game is horrible. I bought it because it was $20, I should have ordered a pizza. The load time is horrible, you sit and sit waiting for the game to load and then within a minute or so the mission is done and then you are stuck loading again. It is so irritating. I ending up yelling at the TV I was so mad at all the loading. The story line is stupid and so are all the missions. Don't get this game get something else.

Not enough to it

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 17 / 36
Date: October 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The simpson games have always been fun to mess around with. But, as far as buying this game; there isn't enough to it the levels are short and the overall replay value of this game is weak. Dont buy this game, rent it on a rainy day. Im serious..
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Short Lifespan

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The novelty of this game wears off very quickly. At first it was fun to play as several of the Simpsons characters but when they started repeating their dialogue for the 50th time it became mighty tedious and tiresome.

The gameplay is very simple. If GTA: Vice City is the Lego Technic of road rage games then Simpsons: Road Rage is, without a doubt the Lego Duplo. It is SOOO aimed at kids. No one over the age of 13 will be particularly impressed with this. It's just far to `safe'. The Simpsons TV show is full of satirical humor and intelligence but this game is just a cheap spin-off aimed at a much younger audience.

Get the DVDs instead- more laughs, better value

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: May 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Anyone from Minneapolis or Montreal is likely to play this game and think it's a simulation of driving in either of those cities with the added attraction of extreme property damage. I had debated buying this game for many months and while I am a huge Simpsons fan, many of the PS2 games I have played have been really awful. In fact, from where I stand, about one game in ten is worth playing, much less actually own it. I also usually try to never pay full price of a PS2 game if I can and if that means waiting for it to be reduced in price or made a `Greatest Hits' title, then so be it.

`The Simpsons: Road Rage' is one of those games. I can't imagine anyone paying full price for this game, playing it and think it was a good bargain. Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad game on the same level that `Time Splitters' was a bad game, rather there just isn't enough to do but pick people up and drop them off somewhere else as quickly as possible or running things down in the so-called `Mission Mode'. Destroying stuff would be at least be visually pleasing if when you crashed into something, instead of the polygon model breaking apart, it exploded like most things in the Simpsons (rabbits, Chief Wiggum in a garbage can), I mean, how many times has a car crashed in the Simpsons and NOT exploded? Right, about 4 times.

What's worse is it isn't even that funny. The dialog never seems strained, the actors do their part wonderfully, rather what they say isn't going to win any Emmies. My question here is, in 14 seasons of the Simpsons there have been about 10,000 really funny lines and even if only 5% pertained to cars and driving, they could have just sampled them and stuck them into the game. But no, we get lines like "Everyone's a psycho but me." from Lisa or "You'd make me the happiest Christian in the world if you could take me to the church!" from Flanders. Would have been so hard to go to Gracie Films and borrow some of their writers for this game in order to get some GOOD lines? Funny video games are possible, anyone remember `Sam and Max Hit the Road'?

Also, the game presents some funny glitches, like two Apu's standing on opposite sides of the street waiting to be picked up. Or the time when driving as Bart I dropped Marge off at the `She She Lounge'. I found Marge waiting to be picked up in the middle of Lake Springfield standing on an island. Later, I found Krusty waiting there as well. Graphics are so-so. A mixed bag of great character models and detailed locations seen in the show, but almost everything else is pretty low-rez and over anti-aliased. Some buildings don't even have textures on all sides. The physics model actually isn't that bad and I wish cars in Gran Tourismo handled as well as the ones in the game do. In that vein, all cars drive and handle the same- whether it's Bart's soap box racer or Marge's Canyonaro.

As a Simpsons fan I can barely justify the twenty clams I laid out for this game. It will actually be worth it when it gets to half that.

Not very fun

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: September 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Normally, I'm a big fan of the Simpsons but this game really did no justice to the name. Aside from the snide remarks that the Simpsons crew throws out constantly (which in my opinion is the only entertaining bit to this game), the game is very repetitive and boring. The graphics were very choppy and sloppy. It was like time turned back, it was 1983 and I was playing Pac-Man on my Atari.

It plays like Crazy Taxi, which too, was also a bad driving game. This is really not a game for the older gamers but kids will enjoy this very much because of it's simplicity. I hated it but maybe you'll like it. Have fun and Happy gaming!

WHAT A WASTE OF TIME AND $$$ !!!!!!!!!!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: January 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The serious Simpsons fan would enjoy this game thoroughly. However, I am not a Simpsons fan, at all, therefore, THIS GAME IS AWFUL!!! Fortunately, I bought this game with a gift certificate. Because I own and really enjoyed Crazy Taxi 3 and thought this game would be similar, maybe even better. HUGE MISTAKE. Let me put in simple terms;
-average/poor graphics. PS2 is capable of much, much more
-*EXTREMELY REPETITIVE GAMEPLAY* incredibly boring after 25min
-incredibly long "Loading" screens
-mission modes last anywhere between 15 and 45 secs and the loading screen takes about 2-3 mins.
-characters have VERY limited dialogue (i.e. repetitive jokes)
-passenger locations and drop-offs exactly the same, every time
-overall gameplay is limited and, again, repetitive
Get the picture...?
The one and one only reason this game got 2 stars instead of 1 is because of the amount of characters there are to choose from (after unlocking them all, which is boring and tedious)
So, I hope I have been of some help to everyone interested in this game, dont forget this is my opinion, and obviously, rent the game first, if you insist on checking it out.

There's no reason to get this game.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty boring. It's just like Crazy Taxi, just with the Simpsons as the cast. The game is just the same thing over and over again, you pick up passengers and drop them of at the designated area in the time limit you are given, so the game is to repeticious. I rarely play it anymore. The only thing I really liked were some of the silly things that the characters said, other than that, there's no reason to get this game.

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