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"The Simpsons Game" is a video game which is available for the Wii, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation ii, and PlayStation Portable. Each version has an exclusive encompass art. It is a third-person activeness game featuring an original storyline written by Tim Long, Matt Selman, and Matt Warburton. The plot is self-referential in nature, with the Simpson family discovering that they are forced to participate in another Simpsons video game. Like to the show, the game pokes fun at pop civilization, other video games, and EA, its developer.

Playable Characters

Homer Simpson

Main commodity: Homer's Powers

Homer'southward super-attack is burping. His main power is eating to turn into Homer Ball, a large ball to burst or slam

enemies or walls. His other ability, which he gets afterward in the game, is inhaling helium to plow into "Heli-Homer", a big gas ball to bladder into the air. Another of his powers is eating Gummi Venus de Milos to turn into "Gummi-Homer", a big gummi ball to shoot gummi balls to enemies. In the Xbox 360 and PS3 version, Homer's shield item is a hot-pepper to plough into "Lava-Homer", a big lava brawl that tin walk on hazardous terrain, like barbed wire and defeat enemies and destroy things by touching them, although he tin can't use any abilities other than the aforementioned ones.

Bart Simpson

Bart can shoot rocks or other things with his slingshot, which later becomes a wrist rocket. He can also turn into Bartman: he can glide opening his greatcoat, climbing walls and ziplines and grappling into grapples. In the Xbox and PS3 version, Bart's shield item is a metallic caput to turn into "Robo-Bart", a robotic version of himself to shoot lasers through glass, but he can't use Bartman abilities nor the charged shot. In the PS2 and PSP version, Bart's major power is making bats fly out of his greatcoat.

Lisa Simpson

Lisa tin can stun enemies playing her saxophone. She tin can also enter a meditation point in on a Buddha statue to employ the Hand of Buddha: she can pick up and drop large things controlling her hand with her mind. She can subsequently flick, electrocute or freeze enemies with information technology. In the Xbox and PS3 version, Lisa's shield item is a comic volume to turn into "Clobber Daughter", a superhero version of herself to destroy things but Marge'due south mob can intermission, merely she can't use the sax nor the Hand of Buddha.

Marge Simpson

Marge has a megaphone to recruit people to a mob and tell them to destroy, fix or build things and to pace on platforms. She tin also place Maggie into crawlspaces. In the Xbox and PS3 version, Marge's shield item is a police chapeau to turn into "Marge Cop", which makes her stronger and invincible while her mob tin throw rocks at enemies (She'due south the only character that doesn't get nerfed when invincible, merely that she tin can't use the megaphone blowback).

Maggie Simpson

Maggie has no powers, simply Marge tin can send her through pocket-sized openings into shafts that her family can't admission.

Levels

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The game has 16 levels. Some of them can exist picked upwardly randomly, while most of them take to be completed to get to the next one. There are several hubs in which these tin be picked up: the Simpsons house, the backyard of the house, and the game engine. In the Xbox and PS3 version, all of Springfield can be explored and the levels are started from certain buildings, depending on the main location of the level.

The Land of Chocolate

Homer is in a chocolate earth when he meets a white chocolate bunny. Homer then attempts to run after. along the fashion Homer kills some brown chocolate bunnies and climbs a big block before he wakes up and it was all a dream.

Bartman Begins

Bart buys Grand Theft Scratchy from the Sequel Stop merely to take it confiscated past Marge (she puts it is Homer's underwear drawer along with his BB gun and swimsuit magazines) and so when Bart goes in an alley exterior he finds the Simpsons Game transmission. When Bart tries out his powers (he turns into Bartman), he finds Homer and they get downwards the human being hole near the Springfield Natural History Museum (Homer was going to shoot bats while reading swimsuit magazines). While underground, they find out that Jimbo, Kearney and Dolph have been sent by Primary Skinner to steal museum artifacts. Bart and Homer stop them and the law arrest Skinner.

Around the Globe in 80 Bites

Using his new powers, Homer competes in the almanac Duff Ultimate Eating Challenge contest with Bart helping him. Homer goes through Mexico, Australia, and Germany before climbing upwardly the Eiffel Tower and destroying Stone Hedge in Scotland and a behemothic meatball in Italy. Homer also destroys the Statue of Liberty and a giant hamburger. Moe (Homer's coach) and then congratulates him but Homer accidentally bites off his arm. The terminal twelvemonth'southward winner Akira presents him with the winners belt but it doesn't fit.

Lisa the Tree Hugger

Bart tells Lisa of her new powers and decide to stop Mr. Burns' lumbering company from cutting down trees. Afterward destroying several machines, they salve bird-watchers Lenny and Carl stuck under a tree on a conveyor belt. Once destroying the primary factory, however, Bart and Lisa accidentally lay off hundreds of workers. Mr. Burns decides to accept his goons rough up Al Gore at the destruction of his plant.

Mob Rules

Marge watches every bit Martin Prince carjacks Ned Flanders' hatchback later on purchasing the new video game, Grand Theft Scratchy and decides to protest against the violence in the newest video game, despite Mayor Quimby's taking of bribes. She uses her powers of mob forming to form a group of protesters consisting of Ned Flanders, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Edna Krabappel, Waylon Smithers, Abraham Simpson, Moe Szyslak, Snake Jailbird, and Seymour Skinner. Though the law forces intervene, the mob is able to brand information technology to the town hall to find that the mayor has declared information technology Itchy and Scratchy Twenty-four hour period. Maggie is able to crawl through the ventilation system and watches Quimby take bribes. Maggie is able to heat up the pool forcing the mayor and the video game representative to leave. After seeing the destruction and the mob, the video game representative takes back his bribe and Marge is pleased, though Lisa points out the irony of Marge's use of violence to get her way, which was what she was objected nearly.

Enter the Cheatrix

After the aliens attack, Bart and Lisa get to see Professor Frink, but he has been transported to a different world and they decide to follow him. When they achieve the globe it is a behemothic videogame world full of versions of popular videogame characters such as versions of Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog. They observe that Frink has been kidnapped by an ape (a parody of Donkey Kong), but Lisa uses her new Paw of Buddha powers to ship the ape into the acid (Equally the Ape is sent into the acid, he gives a thumbs up, similar to the T-800 when being melted down in Terminator ii: Sentence Twenty-four hour period. Frink gives them crook codes, but decided to stay in the videogame earth because he was marrying a Koopa (from the Mario franchise).

The Solar day of the Dolphin

After existence zapped by a ray by Kang and Kodos, evil dolphins (from Treehouse of Horror XI) invade the pier , and Bart and Lisa need to assist the Bounding main Captain to defeat the dolphins and aliens. It appears that when y'all levitate as Lisa in the last part of the level, the Sea Captain says dump the jellyfish in the water, Snorky goes into the h2o, and then like the Treehouse of Horror Eleven episode Snorky is the king dolphin. The level ends with possibly killing Snorky and a good end of the level, until Kang and Kodos are in their spaceship waiting for revenge, and egg rolls to be done.

Shadow of the Colossal Donut

(Similar to Treehouse of Horror VI) The level starts with the news ballast Kent Brockman talking to Bart and Homer, saying "Are you insane!?". Then Homer starts talking into the camera before running of to defeat the Lard Lad Donuts mascot. Bart shoots his slingshot at 3 hatches on Lard Lad and he has to hop on a hatch and disable his wiring. Then Lard Lad collapses. At the end of the level Homer is seen punching Lard Lad's crotch and yelling "Eat fist! Lard Crotch!" The aliens seek revenge.

Invasion of the Yokel-Snatchers

Bart and Homer go to relieve the Springfield Mall and Cletus from aliens. Homer uses his helium power to fly over to every switch, and when you pull them steam comes out that Bartman can fly over. Once you reach the mall's car park you lot both stand up in front of 2 doors and they open and you become sucked into the space ship. And then yous salvage Cletus. While Cletus and Bart are fighting the aliens, Homer uses his brawl power to impairment energy things. Then they find out that Sideshow Bob is backside it.

Bargain Bin

The Simpson family unit is confronted by an alien spaceship commanded by Kang and Kodos. After Bart points the piece of cake and repetitive way to his family, the alien duo decides to cover up their weak point, making them indestructible to the family unit. When Homer accidentally spills beer all over the keyboard while the family are on the net, they are sucked into the estimator and are sent to the Game Engine. They discover Will Wright and discover that he is destroying all of the copies of an old 8-bit Simpsons game. Afterward saving the games from devastation past disabling the manufacturing plant and Will Wright ranting almost his jealous enemies at EA, the video game families meet. The older 8-bit family informs the electric current Simpsons that their game will be destroyed as well in the time to come, but the Simpsons tell their older selves that their world is already being destroyed. The 8-bit Simpsons tell them that the only way would be to talk to the creator. And to become to him yous would need the four fundamental cards found in four other Simpsons video games.

NeverQuest

The eleventh episode, titled NeverQuest, consists of the characters Marge and Homer. Equally they prepare to enjoy a level without the kids, iii hobbits (being Rod Flemish region, Todd Flemish region and Ralph Wiggum) pass them fleeing from a 2-headed Patty and Selma dragon. While Homer battles the dragon with his girth, Marge leads a mob of children to repair the houses damaged by the dragon. Later wounding the dragon enough, it flees to its mountain base of operations. Homer and Marge continue through a magically sealed door by kicking it open. With the aid of a mob of children they go through a magical castle while laying waste to any orcs (Moe Syzslak) or ghosts (Otto) in their style. They face the dragon once more and Homer'due south gummi ability slays Selma and Patty. They notice the Selma/Patty fundamental menu in the monster'south nest and Homer clutches information technology calling it "His Precious."

Grand Theft Scratchy

Marge and Lisa are in Caninewood, the setting of the Grand Theft Scratchy game. Seeing all the run-downwards buildings, cat prostitutes and constant gunfights, Marge decides to take matters into her ain hands and tidy upwardly the place. So, she assembles a mob of dogs to fight off violence and ready the buildings into more kid-friendly ones. Eventually, they cross the span to the other island, where Poochie sends suicide-bombing cat hos to destroy the ice cream trucks. But, Lisa fends them off, allowing Marge's mob to go and destroy Poochie'south concert phase. After that, the Senator from "Mob Rules" appears and is pleased to announce an cease to video game violence. However, a heart-shaped decoration on the candy shop'south sign falls onto her. Marge and Lisa discover the Poochie central bill of fare in her purse, then slowly back away.

Medal of Homer

Homer and Bart receive their mission information from Admiral Abe Simpson, and so wind up in a small French town. There, they see Uter throw a rock at one house. Almost immediately, 24 white flags pop upward in surrender. Admiral Simpson tells Homer and Bart to get those white flags before the French accept a gamble to kiss German butt. Individual C. Montgomery Burns suggests that they take the paintings for "safety-keeping". After Homer and Bart take all the white flags, Admiral Simpson gives word that Private Burns stabbed them in the back and is retreating with the paintings on his own cargo ship. There, Homer and Bart accept to accomplish the top of the gunkhole where Individual Burns is, planting C4 explosives where necessary. Somewhen, using Bart's gliding and Homer's helium abilities, they reach the top and take Private Burns into custody. As cheers, the mayor of the village rewards Homer with one of their prize paintings—which conveniently has the Private Burns primal card!

Big Super Happy Fun Fun Game

Homer and Lisa announced in a Japanese landscape. Backside them appears Mr. Dirt (aka Milhouse, only bigger and he looks almost like Katamari Damacy's King of All Cosmos). Lisa once again refuses to be his queen, resulting in him complaining on what more he has to do to win her over, leaving. So, Homer and Lisa achieve the village, where blue sumos (appearing similar Comic Book Guy) sally from the filthy h2o. Lisa uses the Hand of Buddha to identify the three lanterns dorsum in their slots around the well. From it appears Mr. Sparkle, who tells of the disrespectful energy company seeking to take over the country. To restore harmony, Homer and Lisa have to find the three Sparklemon (a parody of Pokémon) in the three corners of the earth. Crossing a field of lava to the Well of Fire, where fire-sumos mock the duo and even make references to Kingdom Hearts by quoting Ansem'southward iconic line, "Every heart returns to darkness.", Homer and Lisa battle Jimbo'southward Pikachu-similar Sparklemon in a Pokémon-style cutscene boxing. After that, Mr. Sparkle converts the Sparklemon into its container. Then, Homer and Lisa go to the Well of Ice, where they defeat Ralph'southward Squirtle-like Sparklemon. Then, riding an balloon into the sky, they enter the Well of Air, defeating Sherri and Terri's unicorn Sparklemon. After that, they restore the Sparklemon to the village'southward well, freeing Mr. Sparkle from Mr. Dirt's banishment. As he leaves, Mr. Sparkle cleans the place and turns Mr. Dirt into the ever-pathetic Milhouse, who surrenders his Mr. Dirt key menu. As Homer and Lisa leave, the three Sparklemon beat up Milhouse.

Using the fundamental cards, the Simpsons gain access to the Creator'southward mansion. The eight-bit Simpsons can't believe, notwithstanding, that they fabricated information technology this far and only got 4 points (referring to the primal cards, which they thought was the Simpsons' score). Inside the mansion, Homer and Bart start things off by peeing in the Creator'south m. Meanwhile, the Creator, AKA Matt Groening, sees the two delinquents in the deed and sends out the attack force—after correcting his secretary that information technology's pronounced "grey-ning", not "groaning". Eventually, Homer and Bart fabricated it to Groening's private chambers, where he has them boxing Benders and Dr. Zoidbergs summoned through quick sketches. Withal, Homer uses his brawl form to roll up a slope and break the catwalk that Groening stood upon. After that, Homer and Bart start kicking him. Lisa asks why he betrayed his own creations. Groening pretends to exist lamentable, presently before hitting the Game Engine'southward cocky-destruct push. He escapes in his helicopter, merely before leaving, he writes his signature in midair.

Game Over

The characters from the games escape from their crumbling worlds. The Simpsons and all the characters escape through the only portal that held—the Springfield portal. Safe in the Simpsons' house, Bart points out that the aliens are even so attacking. Lisa and then decides to become to the one say-so higher than Matt Groening—God. She uses her Hand of Buddha power to construct a tower, which the Simpsons and other inhabitants of Springfield employ to achieve Heaven. Earlier Homer and Bart can get through the gate with Marge and Lisa, William Shakespeare closes them off. For no reason, he starts attacking using exploding Yorick skulls. After Homer and Bart defeat him, Bart and Lisa explore Sky. There, they encounter powered-upward enemies (only with halos over their heads), including aliens, loggers, chocolate rabbits, and dolphins. Eventually, they build some other Skybuck'due south, and from the other i comes Benjamin Franklin, who attacks them using lightning from his fundamental. Later they defeat him, they proceed upwards the stairway... They then see God playing a video game. They need that he end the madness, but instead, he attacks the family in a Trip the light fantastic Trip the light fantastic Revelations battle to "Rock You Like a Hurricane". The family has to defeat his Praystation, Xodus Box, and his Hii (Iam in Wii version) by stepping on the arrows in the correct time to destroy the enemies and keep them from pain his life bar. After the Simpsons eliminate God'due south consoles, Bart threatens to drop God's retentiveness carte if he doesn't help them and explain everything. Since he'southward at the final dominate of Oblivion and tin't bear to first over over again, God concedes. He explains that the Simpsons are only video game characters designed by computer nerds in cubicles to exist controlled past other computer nerds in their bedrooms. It appears that God has go immersed in playing a game called "The Planet Earth", in which The Simpsons Game is just a mini-game of. God then explains how Bart found the game transmission. After God agrees to gear up Springfield and all the other games, give video game characters better working conditions, let the Simpsons keep their powers, and supposedly granting Homer three wishes, Lisa asks him if he wonders if he's a video game character, besides. While God claims how dumb that sounds, the camera shows that Ralph Wiggum was playing the game. Then, he notices the player and tells his dad that people are looking at him.

Gameplay

Players are able to command four of the five members of the family, each with their own unique abilities. Maggie is, in result, an extension of Marge, briefly being playable in air ducts and other small spaces. Two dissimilar family members are playable on each level, aside from The Land of Chocolate tutorial where only Homer is playable, and the final level, which allows all of the family unit members to exist used on the PS3 and Xbox 360 (In the Wii, all characters except Marge is used). The game contains 16 levels, known as episodes. Each episode requires specific skills related to the characters in that episode. For example, in Lisa the Tree Hugger, you are required to use Lisa's Hand of Buddha skill to move large objects, and Bart's slingshot skill to shutdown numerous machines. Unique enemies are featured in all episodes with the exception of the terminal level, in which the enemies are "recycled" with different colors and a halo over their caput.

Several subsequently-episode challenges be. These include finding all the collectibles for each character, finding all the videogame cliches, completing the episode under a certain amount of time, not dying once, and in the PS3, 360 and DS versions, completing a certain chore related to the episode'due south plot in a time trial. While the game for each system includes two episodes set in Springfield, a Springfield hub is besides included that can exist explored freely without any goals, and contains additional collectibles and cliches. These ii versions also have extra mini-games, including parodies of Joust, Pokémon and Space Invaders. All versions take mini-game parodies based on Gauntlet, Missile Command, Frogger, and Dance Dance Revolution. Each family fellow member has their own abilities, with the PS3 and 360 version having character-unique power-ups. Bart is similar to a traditional platform graphic symbol, with slingshot, grapple and cape to glide, the power to apply ziplines and a power-up that turns him into a RoboCop-esque RoboBart, with invulnerability and lasers that can go through glass and destroy enemies and obstacles in i hit. Homer's abilities are similar to Katamari Damacy, every bit he turns into a giant ball to eat food and outburst through obstacles and enemies, and he can also burp, inhale helium and turn into Gummi Homer, enabling him to shoot candy projectiles at enemies. His ability-upward is a spicy Guatemalan chili that transforms him into an invincible brawl of lava. Marge plays somewhat similar to Captain Olimar from the Pikmin series of games, by recruiting a mob of civilians she can use to destroy, repair and build parts of the environment, and to set on enemies. She can also utilise a megaphone as a weapon to accident back and sometimes impale adversaries, Maggie, inside a carrier on Marge's dorsum, tin can exist deployed into small areas for certain objectives and her ability-up is Marge Cop, giving her strength and invincibility, and arming her mob with rocks. Lisa has a saxophone, that can both stun and kill enemies, and her main power is using Hand of Buddha ports to movement objects across the mural, and to motion-picture show and smash enemies, and send lightning bolts to the ground, and plough enemies into ice-cubes. Her power-upward is Clobber Daughter, giving her super-force and invincibility.

Development

EA revealed the game on May 2, 2007 with a countdown timer in a parody of Rockstar Games' countdown to Grand Theft Machine Four in April 2007, with only the number "XXII" on the page (referring to the fact that it is the 22nd video game in the Simpsons franchise).[3] The game was officially unveiled at The Simpsons 400th episode party at 20th Century Fox studios on May 8, 2007.[four]

Earlier, several sources had reported apparent plans that a game directly based on The Simpsons Movie was to exist released equally a necktie-in, due to EA'due south handling of other licensed film necktie-ins and later the game with the current title was found on a retailer product listing.[5][half-dozen] The official site is featured as the viral site of a game named "Thousand Theft Scratchy: Blood Island", the aforementioned game which Marge is trying to boycott in the game's plot. It has iv trailers, one with "Grand Theft Scratchy" based on Grand Theft Auto, i with "Medal of Homer", a parody of the Medal of Honor games, "Big Super Happy Fun Fun", a parody of Japanese civilisation and anime, which includes Milhouse with two tubes coming out of the sides from his head (a reference to Katamari Damacy), and "Neverquest" a parody of Everquest, Fable of Zelda, and Lord of the Rings.

This game features cel-shaded graphics, in contrast with the "solid 3D" rendering used in the previous three Simpsons games released (The Simpsons Road Rage, The Simpsons Skateboarding, and The Simpsons: Hit and Run). The PS3 and Xbox 360 versions use a "flattening" technique to return true 2nd graphics, instead of the traditional 3D cel shading method, and the DS is a 2.5D platformer. Many cutscenes characteristic the 2D fashion, shown like a normal Simpsons episode (except for the DS version, which has 3D rendered cutscenes).

Gallery of covers

External links

The Simpsons Game official website
The Simpsons Game Trailer & Data
The Simpsons Game Neverquest Trailer #ii
The Simpsons Game J Pop Trailer

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Levels	The Land of Chocolate ● Bartman Begins ● Around the World in 80 Bites ● Lisa the Tree Hugger ● Mob Rules ● Enter the Cheatrix ● The Day of the Dolphin ● Shadow of the Colossal Donut ● Invasion of the Yokel-Snatchers ● Bargain Bin ● NeverQuest ● Grand Theft Scratchy ● Medal of Homer ● Big Super Happy Fun Fun Game ● Five Characters in Search of an Author ● Game Over
Characters	Homer ● Bart ● Lisa ● Marge ● Maggie ● Enemies ● White Chocolate Rabbit ● Will Wright ● Matt Groening ● God ● Abraham Simpson
Powers	Homer Brawl ● Heli-Homer ● Gumi-Homer ● Bartman ● Hand of Buddha ● Marge's Megaphone
References/Trivia ● Appearances ● Credits ● Extras ● Quotes