This The Simpsons review contains spoilers.
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Dec 07, 2001 At first it was fun to play as several of the Simpsons characters but when they started repeating their dialogue for the 50th time it became mighty tedious and tiresome. The gameplay is very simple. If GTA: Vice City is the Lego Technic of road rage games then Simpsons: Road Rage is, without a doubt the Lego Duplo. It is SOOO aimed at kids. Apr 23, 2001 For Rumble Racing on the PlayStation 2, GameFAQs has 52 cheat codes and secrets.
The Simpsons: Season 30 Episode 5
Homer has two unexpected partners in The Simpsons season 30 episode 5, “Baby You Can’t Drive My Car”: Marge and Mr. Burns. Neither turn out to be what we’d expect in the thirty years we’ve known them and that’s why this week’s installment is a near classic in the post-classic era of the classic series.
When “Baby You Can’t Drive My Car” opens, Homer is at odds with both his boss and his wife. He loses his job at the nuclear plant after recklessly dipping chicken fingers while driving and crashes through Burns’ window just as the old man is showing off his new Faberge chicken. Even at the height of his popularity, Krusty the Clown could only afford a few Faberge eggs, Burns gave himself the gift that will keep giving. But first he gives his ex-employee one of the best jabs in the flab he can muster. When Homer proclaims that being fired is the very thing he needs to turn his life around, Burns points out he’s lucky it’s only his life because he’d have to turn his body around in shifts.
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Jobless Homer is probably not much different than gainfully employed Homer. He discovers Korean soap operas and licks deodorant sticks like popsicles. His life has stopped its free-fall. The bagel has landed. He stops shaving until he grows neck-beard. Marge can’ take his cycle of getting and losing jobs, punctured by long hours at Moe’s bar. But it’s hard to get a job for someone who has such a specialized set of skills like Homer. He excels at doing nothing. He is at his best in his quest to do less.
Simpsons Road Rage Rocket Car Accident
Homer finds his dream job, doing almost less than nothing. He is a passenger in his own life, riding shotgun in the driver’s seat of a driverless car when CarGo moves to Springfield and brings jobs. Although Homer learns about the job at the same time he learns TV also talks to other people, the job he gets at the new company is as perfect for him as the one he got at Scorpio, the other evil corporation he worked at. That was the first time he was good at his job, but CarGo job seems custom-made for Homer: Road testing self-driving cars. His bad driving record is a plus, this is a guy who’s never used blinkers and once drove over himself. He has that can-do attitude that comes when road rage is home rage he brings to the streets.
You can write a novel while you’re driving, Homer is told, but he prefers shorter art forms. One of the best bits in the episode is Homer’s running commentary in the form of parody lyrics to Jim Croce’s song “Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels).” The best line from the song being “where is the seat belt cos I can’t find it?” The job is so special, his hiring concludes with a ritual, complete with the sacrifice of a goat. Or it would have if the goat hadn’t bitten the high priest in the ankle.
Simpsons Road Rage Wii
Just as it seems the job can’t get any better, Homer learns CarGo offers free food at work. This inspire him to new heights even as he and Marge discover the first holes in the corporate plan: all the special features of the workplace, like the exercise room and the in-office hockey rink, are as underused as the creative part of the brains in the overtired workers. Yes, Homer did this before when he suggested the workers be supplied with hammocks at Hank Scorpio’s Globex Corporation, but this time blasts the paradigm with Marge. Soon he gets a promotion, and Marge is hired. Although she promises to fix the paradigm.
People say:
I slagged the Xbox version of Road Rage a couple issues ago, not for its blatant plagiarism of Crazy Taxi, but rather for its many gameplay issues. I kept my expectations low going into the GameCube version this month and saved myself the disappointment. This is the exact same game as its Xbox and PS2 counterparts, which means you'll still have to deal with irritating load times and janky collision detection problems (it's easy to get your car stuck on objects and buildings). What's worse is that RR still has very little in the way of depth. Like CT, the object is to make some dough by driving the denizens of Springfield around town. The faster you truck, the bigger the buck. But man, did these cats miss the point of CT or what? RR doesn't reward you for weaving through traffic, pulling off jumps or causing near-misses. In fact, there isn't much technique here at all. Leave out these moments of skill and all you've got is a very bland rip-off starring the cast of our most beloved animated series. Sorry Simpsons fans, this is not the game it could have been.