Worst. Demo. Ever.
Well not quite, but it is disappointing. A lot of nice things have been said about this game and it looked very pretty from the videos.
The demo is set in a small area with Bart and Homer fighting Lard Boy, the giant Donut carrying icon brought to life in a Treehouse of Horror episode. There are also loads of mini evil Krustys running around (brought to life by lard Boy from a Krusty burger sign). I?m not sure what game this is supposed to parodying (unless it?s other crappy Simpsons? games).
The good and the bad:
Woo-hoo: It looks lovely and they have captured the colours of the Simpson?s world very well. It is in 3D but looks closer to the 2D episodes than previous games. The voices are all the real characters and a few of the lines are fairly funny.
Doh! : It plays like a 3D game from ten years ago. The camera is horrible and gets stuck behind scenery. Controls are sluggish and sometimes even the jump button does nothing. Bart has a lock-on for his catapult, but getting it to target where you actually want it to is a nightmare.
Lardboy is defeated by hitting a flashing spot on his back shows a hatch. Hit this and it reveals his circuitry. You then have a few seconds to disable it. Repeat this three times with different hatches on his body (which are frustrating to reach because of the crap controls) and that?s it ? demo over.
It?s just so uninspired. The level is also littered with pointless collectibles such as Duff bottle caps. Apparently you collect ten to unlock a trophy (I didn?t bother).
And why do all Simpsons games struggle to capture what the Simpsons is really about? Bart and Homer act completely out of character all the time. Homer has special powers where his burp stuns enemies or he can become very fat in an instant and roll around. And Bart changes into??.you guessed it, Bartman. Why does every Simpson?s game have to feature Bartman, a character that hardly ever features in the Simpson?s world apart from that crappy song?
Why can?t we see a game more like the Simpson?s episodes, a bit like Bully with Bart and Lisa in his school, Homer in the nuclear power plant and Marge and Maggie at home?
Having played loads of ****e demos that turned out to be good games (hello Chromehounds and Kameo) this could be pretty good. But they had better have sorted out the camera and controls, else this is just another wasted effort.
Well not quite, but it is disappointing. A lot of nice things have been said about this game and it looked very pretty from the videos.
The demo is set in a small area with Bart and Homer fighting Lard Boy, the giant Donut carrying icon brought to life in a Treehouse of Horror episode. There are also loads of mini evil Krustys running around (brought to life by lard Boy from a Krusty burger sign). I?m not sure what game this is supposed to parodying (unless it?s other crappy Simpsons? games).
The good and the bad:
Woo-hoo: It looks lovely and they have captured the colours of the Simpson?s world very well. It is in 3D but looks closer to the 2D episodes than previous games. The voices are all the real characters and a few of the lines are fairly funny.
Doh! : It plays like a 3D game from ten years ago. The camera is horrible and gets stuck behind scenery. Controls are sluggish and sometimes even the jump button does nothing. Bart has a lock-on for his catapult, but getting it to target where you actually want it to is a nightmare.
Lardboy is defeated by hitting a flashing spot on his back shows a hatch. Hit this and it reveals his circuitry. You then have a few seconds to disable it. Repeat this three times with different hatches on his body (which are frustrating to reach because of the crap controls) and that?s it ? demo over.
It?s just so uninspired. The level is also littered with pointless collectibles such as Duff bottle caps. Apparently you collect ten to unlock a trophy (I didn?t bother).
And why do all Simpsons games struggle to capture what the Simpsons is really about? Bart and Homer act completely out of character all the time. Homer has special powers where his burp stuns enemies or he can become very fat in an instant and roll around. And Bart changes into??.you guessed it, Bartman. Why does every Simpson?s game have to feature Bartman, a character that hardly ever features in the Simpson?s world apart from that crappy song?
Why can?t we see a game more like the Simpson?s episodes, a bit like Bully with Bart and Lisa in his school, Homer in the nuclear power plant and Marge and Maggie at home?
Having played loads of ****e demos that turned out to be good games (hello Chromehounds and Kameo) this could be pretty good. But they had better have sorted out the camera and controls, else this is just another wasted effort.
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