The Simpsons Game, one of the few licensed games we’ve previewed that actually appears to rock as much as its source material, has shipped to retail stores in North America today for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PS2, PSP and DS.
The Simpsons Game includes an original script created by the TV show’s Emmy Award-winning writers and is voiced by the original cast from the TV show. The gameplay scenarios also ooze with traditional Simpsons style and irreverance, with parodies of pop culture, current events and the video game industry itself.
Gamers can play along as their favorite yellow, dysfunctional TV family members: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as they battle to break free of the video game world and save Springfield. Each Simpson has special abilities (smash as Homerball, zip-line as Bartman, rally Mobs as Marge or unleash Lisa’s Hand of Buddha), and switching between characters will spice up the mid-missions gameplay.
With more than 40 minutes of new animated scenes by the show’s writers, the game is like getting two never-before-seen episodes of the Simpsons. There’s also more than 8000 lines of in-game dialogue.
