Platform: PS2/GameCube/Xbox
Genre: Racing
Publisher: EA
Developer: Fox Interactive
Website: http://www.simpsonsroadrage.com/
Dear Springfildchane with you again, your precious Anton Peregruzkin and implacable evil, next to your humble servant at his heels! At this time the whole matter in our familiar bad guys - 104h year old man Montgomery Burns. This parasite has decided to acquire the company that owns the urban passenger bus to be used for the transport of radioactive cargo from its nuclear power plant! Do nothing, we'll have to get out of their warm seats to earn a million of money and return home town auto company, and with it, and bought buses. And how? Then, they are video games that everyone can become a hero.
But where do we get a million U.S. cash? There is a way - once a city of such a huge vacant niche as a passenger by road, so be it, and take! Get in your car, look for passengers and take me to wherever onomu necessary. Need to remember only one thing - the clock is ticking inexorably, if we do not have time, then ... too late. Buses will be radioactive, and the citizens of a peaceful American town forever and ever will be forced to go to work on foot. And perhaps after such a "walk" through the city you still have power on the TV, beer and belching? No! We need to save your happiness!
Well, now to business. Who do you think would save Springfield? Well, of course, the Simpson family is headed by an ideal father, who would like to see their ancestor almost all children of the world - the inimitable Homer. As much as three ultra-top boxes (XB, GC, and PS2), we again can see the famous cartoon family, which is second in popularity except that two eMTiVishnym Nerds. We climb into the car and go!
But before the climb, we must choose whom and where.And here starts the real disaster! How then to choose when, together with the restless family, including a grandfather, even Bart's, we have about seventeen of our favorite characters (the bulk of which we will need to declassify, finding secret places and earning bonuses). And the main task in selecting the heroes will be to identify the parameters that you need means of transportation. Each character will have its own car, and the car will have its weaknesses and silnosti: someone more like sinevolosaya lady - Marge Simpson, mother of Bart, in his "Kanenero. Oddly enough, but the ladies in this game went to a purely masculine characteristics: slow and purposeful. Her car is like a fortress, which is not so easy to push to the margins, but also to accelerate it quickly fail. Alternative Marge - Bart himself. His car space shuttle cow color starts in blink of an eye, but on the road The above holds as a cow on the bank. However, in spite of all the above, any zapravsky pristavkovladelets simply be obliged to play all the characters. Who does not want peretiskat gave us at the mercy of characters: Homer, the family jalopy, Professor Frink with his flying machine, the guard Willie on the tractor, Herschel Krastoffski (in fact so called amateur porn Krusty the Clown) introduces us to his incredible multi-colored miniature cars and many others?
Now, let's see where we will be. Thanks to the incredible capabilities of modern consoles, the talent of programmers and, of course, The Simpsons creator Matt Groiningu we find ourselves in the present cartoon Springfield, divided into six stages: Evergreen street, park, Burns' nuclear power plant, dam, Downtown and surrounding mountains. Here we are finally able to see themselves, to go round on all sides and even a little potaranit those houses, shops and other attractions that always show us on TV. Looks like it's a solid top five, all three consoles show Springfil and its inhabitants in all its virtual glory, except that the PS2, of course, unable to keep up with newer and modern consoles and picture on it looks a bit more washed out and "lumpy".
For the same to all in the game look more animated, the game engine supplied with a special effect, familiar to us by "Jet Seth Reid, video screensavers for worms, advertising toothpaste forever gnawing beavers and many other computer advances of art. Bulk lines and characters "tint", after which they begin to look like painted, despite the presence of the charm of 3D world. So, even though the family Simpson markedly oTriDElo, they look great and appear to us exactly as we used to see them. For greater realism, a world in which we have visited, complements the music, familiar to us multserialu. But that's not all on the creation of the game had to work hard the actors, voiced by all the 30 characters appearing in the game (game characters, I remind you, 17). So, landing behind the wheel of cars of a hero, we'll hear just one voice, which are used to hearing in dozens of series.
Finally, it seems we know about the game has almost everything. It now remains only to insert the correct disk in the right console and press the gas to evaluate the game with the most important player to this point of view. Graphics, popular cartoons, brilliant music and tons of tinsel - nothing compared with what some call pley abiliti, some gameplay, while those in the school taught the Russian language - playability. You guessed it, the principle of "Road Rage" is not too far away from his elder brother, «Crazy Taxy». It was with her and you want to compare races, and because the similarities, I think it is already obvious, let us deal, perhaps the differences. Of course, the first two games differ slightly by age, color, and emotional mood. Simpsons though and give not less adrenaline and lust for speed, yet it is more good-natured game, with native Simpsonovskim humor, which, of course, is no different complete absence of cruelty, but where kinder and nicer, such as Beavis and Batheda.
The department between "Taxi" and "The Simpsons" also exists a slight difference, they can not not affect the playability. Despite the fact that the "Road Rage" no place trying to mimic the real car control (compare with at least «Porshe Unleashed»), it is more cheerful and lively than in "Taxi", which are nothing but drifting "on the brakes, raising a lot of dust. Likewise, if you wish, you can totally get to pig squeal, admiring flight along the highways and the expanding mailboxes and newspaper machines, the huge auto-jumps and the war on buses Mr. Burns. I do not know about you, but I'm thrilled by this.
As an outcome of my present slovobludstva I say this: I liked the game! BUT! You probably know this proverb, "every man to his own taste." Think about the following issues: whether you like cartoons, the Simpsons, fun and rock, beer and fumes? If you choose first - bravely go to the store for the game!
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