cars and bikes

This game has some of the best humor and gameplay (ease of controls and responsiveness) of any game I've played in the last year or two.

It takes good things from other successful games, such as Grand Theft Auto and Crazy Taxi. These include the ability to drive almost anywhere in your environment and even hit pedestrians (without animated violence), while completing missions in a limited amount of time.

If you hit too many people either in their cars or while they're on foot, or if your destroying telephone poles and other objects gets out of hand, the police will come after you. You can evade them, but sometimes it's challenging to complete a mission at the same time. This provides an extra challenge in case you think some of the earlier missions are a bit boring.

This is easily the best simpsons game by far, with the best replay value (which is important to me when buying games).

Lastly, addressing all the reviews saying that the game is too hard... I found some missions frustrating, but it wasn't anything extraordinarily hard. You may play a few missions 2 or 3 times, but they've got such good replay value, that it just makes it that much more satisfying when you do complete a mission.

Normally, I shy away from new games that only cost $30, but, being a Simpson's fan, I figured at least my 8 year old son might enjoy it. Well, he hasn't gotten a chance to play it yet, becasue it's MINE, all MINE. Seriously, I was just going to try it out yesterday evening. Come 1A.M., I was still playing and loving every minute.

Great graphics, great character voices, great music, and plenty of fun stuff to interact with. All the characters from the show are here, although you only get to directly control 5 - Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart, and Apu. Most missions are driving based and either earn you money to buy stuff (clothes, cars) or unlock other vehicles to use. In the tradition of GTA3, between missions, you're free to explore Springfield at your leisure - on foot or in your vehicle. Ultimately, as you wreak havoc and mayhem, the police will take notice. The worst they can do to you, however, is take $50 of your money. The areas you have to explore are not as vast as Mafia or GTA3 (what do you expect for $30?), but there's TONS of detail and humorous touches to keep you and your kids entertained for hours.

Bottom line: Simpson's Hit and Run is a superb game for the money that can truly be enjoyed by all ages.

This game is very bad when installing it on a laptop. I tried to install it but got error messages and damaged my system. Soon called customer Support , which is a phone number u have to pay for because i live in NY but its in CA, then they couldnt help me and made everything worse. My computer is one month old and has a very very high quality , but this game damaged my laptop and I advise you never buy games from this company.