The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield

I like this game a lot. It has a lot of fun stuff to do! It is clear but it is not 3-d it is 2-d but it is still very cool. It is like making your own episode. The only bad things are that you can go to some places like Mr. burns mansion and other neighborhood houses another bad thing is that it is kind of hard to move and annoying at times but besides those things it is a great game.

All you really do in this game is look around Springfield and run into the occasional character. I finished the entire thing in less than 2 hours. Plus it is not very vivid or deep. You can only visit 2 classrooms in the Springfield elementary school, there is only 1 angle of Moe's bar etc. All you really do is LOOK at these locations that we are already familiar with and have the tiniest little bit of interaction with them. Plus the geography of Springfield in this game is not the same as the TV show. Which is also inconsistent in it's placing of many "sets". Moe's Bar has been in many different places for example. But, then again, in the HOMER BECOMES a garbageman episode, the town was moved to another site. Perhaps this is where it got all shuffled up.

There are a few little (and I mean little) games included. One of the main games is to simply find hidden baseball cards. A ploy to trick into clicking on the screen and revealing slight animation.

In total there is just under 25 minutes worth of animation here and it is cool that the original cast provided the voices. But unless you are a Die Hard Simpsons fan then I would leave this game be. Definitely only for younger kids.

Virtual Springfield is a good game. The graphics are great and their are many funny and interesting objects from the show. There are also some funny sight gags. It's interesting to roam the world of the Simpsons, though a major flaw is how limited travel is. Other than that, it's a good game and worth the price of buying or renting.

After playing through the game one time, it becomes unbearably boring. The few locales you can actually visit are repetitive and the "humour" of the game consist of either recycled/rehashed gags from the show or of simply poor jokes.

The first playthrough it is kind of interesting to walk through our

favorite town, but then leaves you wishing of what the game could have been vs. what it was.

Get it if you are a hardcore fan....but even then I wouldn't recommend it. Pretty poor.

As a huge Simpsons fan, I must admit this game got me pretty excited -- you get to walk around Springfield as though you were one of the characters on the TV show! It was also great that there are plenty of gags in this game that tie-back to the show (B-Sharps gold records, Apu's secret garden, and "Kwjibo"). But you can only truly interact with a dozen or so key locations (a couple of them are a little too simple), leaving the rest of the town (such as the Android Dungeon Card & Comic Shop) as "backdrop." It's a nice diversion if you're a true Simpsons fan, but not quite as complete as it could be.