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PC, Commodore 64, Arcade Games, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 Make room in your house for America's most animated family. The Simpsons sensational action arcade game is here for the home computer. With Homer, Marge, Bart and Lisa racing to reunite the family after Maggie's nabbed during a jewel heist. So choose a Simpsons character and trek through.
Let's not beat about the bush and get straight to the obvious: Simpsons Skateboarding is diabolical. It doesn't take a genius to work out that licenses like this are hacked together in fifteen minutes by marketing 'geniuses' just before they all knock off to some seedy club for the evening. As a fan of the Simpsons for as long as I can remember, it irritates me that some fabulous characters have to be put through the mill like this - just leave it alone.
D'oh!
- Nov 12, 2002 Watch the latest and greatest trailers, movies, gameplay videos, interviews, video previews of The Simpsons Skateboarding.
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'First of all, we'll take Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and ruin it.' And they have; using the RenderWare engine, the designers have proceeded to suck the basic - and I mean basic - mechanics of THPS and present them to the unwitting audience with all the style and grace of Liam Gallagher taking ballet lessons. On each level there are the usual assortment of objectives required for unlocking subsequent levels like letter collecting and object locating, although unlike THPS there is no clock for the session, only for individual challenges. Accompanying each level is a trick tutorial and a competition round, although the latter is unreasonably hard due to the former's complete inability to be of any use to anybody whatsoever, only teaching you the simplest of grabs and grinds which are printed in the manual anyway.
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The stages are huge, but perversely this is another down point as timed challenges (e.g. find five kids skipping school) become ridiculous goose chases trying to find objects in the over-large levels. Despite the enormous working space, the level designers also seem to harbour a complete inability to create a decent skating line and so interesting combos are an extreme rareity. However, even if the developers had been able to design properly, the controls are so damned unresponsive that you'll be hard pressed to pull off even the most rudimentary of lines, particularly with a mysterious manual function that seems to make its own mind up as to whether or not it's going to work.
As if the gameplay weren't bad enough, it's coupled with some of the most truly abysmal graphics we've had the misfortune to see moving in a long time, and a whimsical non-event of a soundtrack - why couldn't they have incorporated the proper Danny Elfman theme and elements of a decent comedy cartoon score instead of shoving in some dodgy pieces of synthetic Ska crap which sound like they were hashed together in five minutes with Dance eJay? The voices are the game's only saving grace for about five minutes, until the spot comments from your boarder and the constant repetitive quips of commentator Kent Brockman begin to grate as much as the rest of the game.
Make it stop!
It's a simple conclusion really: avoid at all costs. Simpsons Skateboarding is a cash-in in the purest sense of the term. There are barely any redeeming features, it's practically devoid of any humour, the graphics, levels and physics are terrible, and it simply exhausts any entertainment value it does harbour in about five minutes flat.
2 /10
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The Simpsons Skateboarding is an extreme sports video game based on the animated sitcom The Simpsons. It was released for the PlayStation 2 in North America on 11 November 2002 and Europe on 6 December 2002. The game was developed by The Code Monkeys and published by Fox Interactive and Electronic Arts. The story and dialogue were crafted by writers from The Simpsons, with all character voices supplied by the actual cast.
This game has been given largely negative reviews and is considered one of the worst games ever made.
Gameplay
Simpsons Xbox Game
Springfield has been converted into a skate park for the Annual Skate Tour, full of skate-able objects and landmarks from the television series. Players are able to choose one of the nine characters available to compete for the grand prize. All of the characters' voices were recorded by the actual voice actors from The Simpsons. Each character has over forty unique moves. Players can test their skills in either a two-player head-to-head skate off, or in one of the fast and furious modes: Freeskate, Skate Fest, Trick Contest, and a game of skateboard H-O-R-S-E, unlocking additional characters, locations, and skateboards. Players can also choose to learn all the skateboard moves and tricks before they begin the actual game in the Skillz School mode.
Why it Sucks
- Extremely weak plot; the prize for winning the skateboarding contest is $99. Which is a small amount of money when you think about it, because how are you supposed to buy a Ferrari? Or pay for a month's rent? Even the easiest objective in THPS2 pays more than this!
- Every time you pick a character, you have to wait for that character to finish talking to show his/her stats.
- With almost every challenge, you get rewarded with only $0.10 initially.
- Clumsy controls don't fully copy what Tony Hawk's Pro Skater does, making the game extremely frustrating to players used to the controls in that series.
- The worst offenders are the left analog stick used for forwarding movement which just doesn't feel natural nor even comfortable, and the L1/R1 buttons used for spinning which doesn't even work most of the time. Instead of being tight and responsive, the controls just feel slow and sluggish. The physics also don't help the least bit.
- Poor level design that does not take combo potential into consideration. Going back to Tony Hawk, the levels had set pieces that were subtly integrated into their designs and they felt natural as a result; here though, rails and ramps are randomly plastered throughout the map with very few combo opportunities.
- Only a handful of tricks that you can perform; there's no wallride or reverts here to extend your trick combos in any way, for example.
- Grinding is far too easy as the balance meter will stay at the dead center as long as you don't move to the left or right while you're actually on the rail.
- The ollie height is very inconsistent, making even simple flatland tricks hard to pull off.
- Lengthy load times that almost veer into Sonic 06 levels (no pun intended) of long.
- Many unoriginal goals. Like getting Ralph's golf ball out of the water.
- Many bugs and glitches such as passing through rails.
- The game's overall tone tries way too hard to be hip and cool, including pluralizing everything with a Z (as Caddicarus said: 'Make it more hip')
- Kent Brockman never stops talking. For example, he constantly says the name of every trick you do. Some of his other lines are unfunny (ex. 'Somebody get a really big band-aid!')
- Very poor graphics, comparable to an early Dreamcast game. Jet Set Radio looked better than this!
- Poor lip-syncing.
- No GameCube, Xbox, or PC versions exist despite the other 6th gen Simpsons games being multi-platform, not that they are missing anything from this game!
- Recycled voice clips from Road Rage.
Redeeming Qualities
- The voice acting is good, backed up by the actual Simpsons cast.
- Good soundtrack.
- You can turn Kent Brockman's voice off.
- You can upgrade your character's stats from the Pause menu, something that even Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 and 3 didn't allow you to do.
- Easily the best out of all of The Code Monkeys games, as at least this, along with Shrek: Treasure Hunt, is at least playable (even if it's broken) and slightly enjoyable compared to theirlater'games'.
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Simpsons Skate
Apparently the worst Simpsons game next to the Simpsons Wrestling.
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