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The Simpsons (Xbox 360) | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £49.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 326
Platform: Xbox 360
Rating: To Be Announced
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 5030930059453
EAN: 5030930059453
ASIN: B000RO5J7S
Release Date: November 2, 2007
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 fun, funny December 18, 2008
This is premium Simpsons merchandise. Matt Groening has never put his name to a non-broadcast product anywhere near this good, and he's endorsed more products than there are grains of sand in the biggest sandy desert in the known universe (and that's including Dune the sand planet)!
The humour is generally top notch, good story with loads of references to the Simpsons cartoon and computer games in general. I preferred it to the Simpsons movie in terms of story and there are a comparable number of laughs in each (as far as I remember). The land of chocolate intro alone makes the game at least worth renting.
Although short for a computer game, it's more than long enough for me. I loved the GTA parody among others and although comedy is the most enjoyable thing about the game, the gameplay itself is pretty good in its own right.
(I ought to say I haven't played any platformers this century, so perhaps the gameplay's rubbish when compared to other games of its ilk. I have played GTA4 though so it's not like I'm a complete dinosaur!)
 i think its good August 31, 2008
This was the first xbox 360 game i bought and thought it was really good! I was a bit worried about buying it at first because i was worried it would be just another mildly amusing, game that would take about 2 hours to complete. As it turned out it was completley the opposite! It's original, fun to play and will keep you entertained for hours on end. I would recommend it for a first-time game to anybody with an xbox 360, wii etc.
My only trouble with it is that it is sometimes a bit to difficult to figure out how to do things, like find collectables or get to a certain lever. I think the age rating is partly that anybody younger might (and i say might!) have trouble working out what to do.
 boooo! July 6, 2008
there were alot of bugs in the game. Whilst im a fan of the simpsons this game is clearly nothing more than a rental. Its short and i really dont see the point of the city, there arent any cars, and its mostly empty, they simply included it to prolong the replay value. You can finish it in a weekend :)
X-BOX 360 and ps2 RIP OFF! March 6, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is just rediculuos that on X-BOX 360 the graphics are better there are better levels on it you can xplore Springfield on it. Whilst I bought it on ps2 and I thought I was playing a game from 1995! The ps2 version is so awful that I have thrown it away! On ps2 just looking at it makes you sick! IT'S SO BLUGHRY! Trust me get it on X-BOX or ps3 and you will like it DONT get it on enything else!
 Why you little!!!! February 24, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Well, after many a dodgy tie-in game, finally a game based upon the Simpsons IP that isn't a complete failure. It's not ground breaking either, but a middling, fun game.
If you're a Simpsons fan, then the humour is spot on and the cutscenes superb to watch - as you would expect given that the Simpsons writers themselves were involved in the game.
The bane of all platform games (camera angles) makes an occasional appearance, but doesn't ruin the game completely. It's not as good as say, Lego Star Wars II, but much better than many platformers.
In my opinion, there's too much emphasis placed upon collecting things - Duff bottle caps, Marge's saving coupons, Malibu Stacey's, Krusty stuff - it's like the developers needed to pad the game out - and they did, because you will complete the story line fairly quickly.
The video game cliches are reasonably funny and at least take a different tact on the collectibles approach, but again, they are just padding.
So, aside from a collectible overdose, you might be thinking I like this game. As a Simpsons fan, you're right. I loved the main story, enjoyed it and thought it was a reasonable game. However, there's a problem with the Simpsons on the 360 which others have also found and been left annoyed by - the autosave mechanism.
As you progress, the game autosaves. It does so when you get a collectible, cliche or complete a chunk of the story. However, the autosave is buggy and is known to corrupt the save file. Theory seems to be that it sometimes takes much longer to save than the game indicates, so after the autosave logo disappears, you exit the game and hey presto - your save is corrupted. This is shocking and something EA should have picked up in QA.
Unfortunately I fell foul to this bug after completing the main storyline and was about to embark on getting the missing collectibles - what a kick in the teeth!
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