The Simpsons, who doesn't love them?
Now for their PSP game.
Well, the story starts off strangely, with homer being stuck in a dream of chocolate world..here you learn the controls of homer Simpson whilst trying to kill of chocolate rabbits and reach the end of the stage. However, when he awakes, Bart soon finds a game manual, dropped from god. It allows the Simpson's characters to have 'special powers'. After this, you have a series of 16 stages to complete, which are all of varying difficulty, which can mean its one of those games that you keep in the drawer as you have been stuck for so long! There is a large variety in the 16 levels in the game, as each character is used from the Simpson family, including Maggie!
After Bart finds the game manual, each character has their own special abilities, with homer having a variety of different styles of homer, such as slime homer and Bart having a different mode also, being bartman.
The Simpson's Game in my view, can be categorised into a puzzle game. Most of the game is using your grey matter, taking a while to get used to using hidden buttons to open doors etc. The cut scenes in the game are superb, and look the same on TV quality.
Now for the bad. Which is sadly, a very large list.
The in game graphics are very poor, some of the poorest seen on the portable gaming device. Combined with a bad camera angle, can be very annoying also, especially when you fail the mission due to bad quality graphics and camera angles. Although the controls are very easy to pick up and use, there is no challenge with fighting off enemies etc, all you have to do is some button mashing and you could easily kill off a couple of baddies. The loading times can be very long indeed, with up to 20 seconds of waiting to get onto the next stage in the game, and can even take 5 seconds to get from pausing to back into the game!
Also, although there is thousands of unlocks to fully complete the game, with 5 separate collect ables in the each stage, you don't seem to get rewarded for getting any/all of them? The only point here is seemingly, to extend the game value and replayability, which it lacks also.
However, the movie unlocks are fun to watch back over and when watched in sequence, are a full Simpson's episode, with TV quality, with both graphics and sound, which is surprising from the average sound and poor graphics in the game play. There is a lack of multiplayer also, which could be a nice bonus to such an average game.
Being a disappointment, lacking where games need to exceed, The Simpson's Game gets an average 6/10. The only thing that i found fun was the amount of time it takes to complete the game (for me was 10 hours, which was mostly being stuck at 'the god danceoff level'.
Next week's PSP review is of Worms:Open Warfare.
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Thanks for the beginning, I missed that as I played through most of the game with a friend, but missed that level. The co-op on the PS3 is amazing tbh, as both players work together playing as different roles to achieve what would otherwise be done by the AI player.
ReplyDeleteWhat did you think to the ending; assuming it's the same as the PS3 (with Bender, Matt Groening and Dr Zoidberg)? I loved it, and remember feeling that it was like a good episode of the simpsons with pretty good gameplay. Perhaps that didn't transfer to the PSP that well. Although I think it was more fun to play it co-operatively than it would've been to play alone.