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Dom Robinson reviews
Fox Interactive 
How best to describe this game based on the yellow family from Springfield USA?Erm.. how about “Crazy Taxi with The Simpsons”. Yes, that describes it perfectly.As such, you get exactly what you expect – a 3D representation of the town withall the characters, voiced by the regular cast, quipping as you drive abouttown.
Of course, I started driving as Homer, but you can choose to be any majorcharacter, starting with the family and unlocking the rest as you go, as wellas new cars and areas to drive around.
There’s three ways to play the game.
Road Rage is the main one. Drive about and get your passengers fromA to B within the tight time limit. You’ll occasionally get the chance to scorebonus points by avoiding traffic or hitting objects on purpose. Of course,once your clock’s down to zero then it’s game over, and Krusty will rate yourdriving.
In the Mission Mode, each character has their own missions to completewhich usually involves running a given number of things over as you drive aboutin your respective vehicle, with one mission per character.
Finally, there’s Sunday drive – the practice mode. Drive about and seeto your fares with no time limit to pressure you.
Graphically, with theJet Set Radio-stylecell-shaded graphics, it all looks and sounds exactly as you’d expect it to.The camera also switches position to the roadside to see you leap big jumps.
Regarding the sound, though, I found once that after about 10 trips, thepassengers stopped talking at me, so there appears to be a bug in theresomewhere.
The Simpsons: Road Rage is great fun as you knock everything over whilstdriving, but I’d recommend a rental first given that, apart from the theme,it’s no different in structure toCrazy Taxi.
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Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.