Gummi Venus de Milos to turn into "Gummi-Homer", a big gummi ball to shoot gummi balls to enemies. His other power, which he gets later in the game, is inhaling helium to turn into "Heli-Homer", a big gas ball to float into the air. His main power is eating to turn into Homer Ball, a big ball to burst or slam enemies or walls. Similar to the show, the game pokes fun at popular culture, other video games and EA, its developer. The plot is self referential in nature, with the family discovering that they are forced to participate in another Simpsons video game. It is a third-person action game featuring an original storyline written by Tim Long, Matt Selman and Matt Warburton. The Simpsons Game is a video game which is available for the Wii, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, PSP The fighting in the game fares worst of all it's nothing more than blatant button mashing with iffy collision detection.The contents of this article or section are considered to be non-canon and therefore may not have actually happened or existed. It would also have been nice if the puzzles in the game were a bit more challenging, but they're all pretty much of the push the button or stand on the switch variety. The referential humor and visually interesting levels quickly begin to lose their appeal when you've had to replay the same jump sequence five times because you can't get a good view of your landing. Unfortunately, The Simpsons Game suffers from some of the same problems that plague most run-of-the-mill platform games, namely poor camera control and spotty jump detection. If you're going to poke fun at the generic nature of most platform games, then you really need to provide some great gameplay. "Ha ha, aren't double-jumps lame? OK, now double-jump your way across the level." The game missed an opportunity to come up with inventive ways to allow you to circumvent the clichéd platform play and you'll find yourself wishing that it hadn't, especially since the platform play itself leaves something to be desired. It's humorous, but at the same time it's also ironic that the game still makes you play through those clichés. Run into an invisible barrier, perform a double jump, or jump between moving platforms and CBG pops up to draw your attention to the fact that you're doing the same things you've done in countless games before. One of the running gags in the game is Comic Book Guy's appearance every time the game resorts to a videogame cliché to point out the fact that it is indeed a tired cliché. Yikes!) The writers have taken full advantage of this opportunity, and the game is packed with humor that fans of the series and of videogaming in general will undoubtedly enjoy. (Scary thought #232: The Simpsons has been on the air for the entire lifetime of today's high school students. The story provides the writers with ample opportunity to poke fun at videogames and make references to episodes from the nearly twenty year old TV series. What begins as a free-spirited romp for the Simpsons as they exercise their new powers soon becomes a quest to find their maker as they become aware that they are actually in a videogame themselves. By reading the manual Bart not only learns that he and his family have special videogames powers, he learns how to unleash them as well. The Simpsons Game opens when Bart happens upon a manual for a game that happens to be titled "The Simpsons Game". After all, how can you poke fun at tired videogame clichés and conventions and then turnaround and use those same conventions yourself? On paper this seems like a brilliant approach, because what couldīe better for a game based on a television series that parodies so much of what's on television than a game that parodies everything you find in videogames? In practice though it doesn't quite work as well as planned. EA was undoubtedly aware of this when designing The Simpsons Game because they've taken the approach of creating a videogame that parodies videogames. The show also has a long history of inspiring some really pathetic videogames. The Simpsons have a long history of expertly parodying popular culture.
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