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Hit and Run is a video game based on The Simpsons. It was released in 2003 by Vivendi Universal and was created by Radical Entertainment. The game is available for PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, and Windows personal computers.

Playable characters

• Homer Simpson: levels 1 and 7, both in the suburban level of the game.
• Bart Simpson: Levels 2 and 6, in the downtown and squid-port levels.
• Lisa Simpson: level 3, squidport.
• Marge Simpson: level 4, nightime suburban level.
• Apu Nahasapeemapetilon (we don't know why he was used: it should have been Abe or Maggie Simpson): level 5, downtown level.

Gameplay

Hit & Run focuses primarily on driving missions. It employs the "sandbox" format, featuring a third-person view, an explorable environment, and drivable vehicles similar to the GTA series. While most cars can be hijacked or stolen, the non-playable characters' vehicles cannot be compromised in this way. Instead, the player's character can be seen riding in the passenger's seat of another vehicle while the owner drives. The game features a "Hit & Run meter" that brings the police after the player if it gets too high; if the player is captured by the police, (s)he is fined 50 coins. In the first 3 levels, only one police car is deployed to chase the player, but starting from level 4, two police cars are dispatched in pursuit. Not three four five six seven eighi nine ten twenty or one hundred police cars.

Progressing though the various story levels allows the player to control Homer, Lisa, Marge, Bart, and Apu; many other Simpsons characters such as Chief Wiggum and Professor Frink appear in non-playable roles, but will also drive you in some missions.

In addition to the story missions, players can optionally participate in "bonus" missions or races which typically award unlockable cars for successful completion. Coins, the currency in the game, are acquired by hitting objects such as trees or mailboxes, destroying wasp cameras or Buzz Cola machines, or simple collection (many coins are simply scattered throughout each level). Players can use coins to purchase new vehicles or outfits for the current character; many of these can be traced directly to specific episodes of The Simpsons (e.g. Bart's Space Shuttle-shaped Honor Roller soapbox racer or Marge's police uniform). Many of the cars come from The Simpsons Road Rage.

A number of "collector cards" depicting objects, characters, or scenes from the series are placed in each level, usually in hard-to-access areas. Collecting all of these cards in a level unlocks a track that can be played in a slot car-like racing game, and collecting all of the cards in the game unlocks an original Itchy & Scratchy short, "500-Yard Gash".

Plot

Part 1

Homer has to do several missions before work and ends up missing work. When he gets home he notices a van is spying on the house and he follows it to Mr. Burns' house. The van is revealed to be part of a pizza delivery service and Homer is fired.

Missions:

• Training mission: S-M-R-T
• 1: Petty Theft Homer
• 2: Office Spaced
• 3: Blind Big Brother
• 4: Flowers By Irene
• 5: Bonestorm Storm
• 6: The Fat And The Furious

Part 2

Bart wants a new Bonestorm game but it turns out they were sold out or destroyed by Marge, which he never found out. Bart goes to Professor Frink who has all the games to power his truckasaurus which Bart helps him build since it is better than video games. After Bart uses truckasaurus he dissapears into a bright light.

Missions:

• 1: Detention Deficit Disorder
• 2: Weapons of Mass Deliquency
• 3: Vox Nerduli
• 4: Bart'n'Frink
• 5: Better Than Beef
• 6: Monkey See Monkey D'Oh
• 7: Cell-Outs

Part 3

Lisa searches for Bart who is nowhere to be found and asks many people who don't know. Captain McCalister knows where he is and when Lisa finds him, he doesn't talk any sense.

Missions:

• 1: Nerd Race Queen
• 2: Clueless
• 3: Bonfire of Manatees
• 4: Operation Hellfish
• 5: Slithery Sleuthing
• 6: Fishy Deals
• 7: The Old Pirate and the Sea

Part 4

Marge believes that this has something to do with a mysterious crop circle by Cletus' house. Marge asks Grampa who explains that it looks like a planet with an antenna which is the same symbol as on the new buzz cola which Marge uses to bring back Barts memory who explains it is evil.

Missions:

• 1: For a Few Donuts More
• 2: Redneck Roundup
• 3: Ketchup Logic
• 4: Return of the Nearly-Dead
• 5: Wolves Stole My Pills
• 6: The Cola Wars
• 7: From Outer Space

Part 5

Apu looks for where the cola is coming from and finds out from Snake that it is in the Springfield Museum and with the help of Bart they find out it is from a crashed meteor being cotrolled by Kang and Kodos who have a tv show called foolish earthlings and the cola makes their ratings higher.

Missions:

• 1: Incriminating Caffeine
• 2: ... And Baby Makes 8
• 3: Eight is Too Much
• 4: This Little Piggy
• 5: Never Trust a Snake
• 6: Kwik Cash
• 7: Curious Curator

Part 6

Kang and Kodos are selling laser guns so the people who are drinking the cola will go mad and shoot people. Bart tries to tell Krusty to stop selling them but he doesn't believe him. Bart finds proof and destroys the gun stands. He and Homer go to the duff brewery and find out that the cola will raise the dead.

Missions:

• 1: Going to the Lu'
• 2: Getting Down With the Clown
• 3: Lab Coat Caper
• 4: Duff For Me, Duff For You
• 5: Full Metal Jackass
• 6: Set to Kill
• 7: Kang and Kodos Strikes Back

Part 7

After Homer protects the house from zombies, he finds the alien spaceship at the school and professor Frink reveals that the way to destroy the aliens is to use nuclear waste and Burns gives Homer the location to all the barrels. The spaceship is destroyed and Homer gets many Rigellian fans.

Vehicles

Phone Booth Cars

Level 1

Family Sedan, Lisa's Elctaurus, Duff Truck, Surveillance Van, Plow King,

Bonus:

Cletus Pickup Truck

Level 2

Honor Roller, Moe's Sedan, Limo, Fire Truck, Mr. Plow,

Bonus:

Grampa's WWII Vehicle

Level 3

Malibu Stacy Car, Book Burning Van, Donuts Truck, School Bus, Nerd Car,

Bonus:

Skinner's Sedan

Level 4

Canyonero, Willy's Tractor, Curator, Krusty's Limo, Clown Car,

Bonus:

Comic Book Guy's Kremlin

Level 5

Longhorn, "The Homer", Cola Truck, El Carro Loco, Police Car, Bonus:

Hover Car

Level 6

Bart's Ferrini-Red, Chase Sedan, Globex Super Villian Car, 36' Stutz Bearcat, Armored Truck, Bonus:

Snake's Lil' Bandit

Level 7

70's Sports Car, Zombie Car, Proffeser Frink's Hover Car, Hearse, Open Wheeled Race Car,

Bonus:

Mr. Burns's Limo

Secret Cars

Level 1: What: Jetcar Where: Between Stonecutters Tunnel and the Grocery Store. Parked in the front drive of the Gold Mansion in the rich part of Springfield.

Level 2: What: Monorail Where: The Rail tracks held above the road, as you come off the Highway near the roundabout where the escalator jump is.

Level 3: What: Jet powered boat car Where: In a container on the vessal ship (the C-Spanker) at Squidport.

Level 4: What: ATV (Quadbike) Where: Behind a caravan on the jipsy pathway in the suburban area.

Level 5: What: Obliteratron (Monster Truck) Where: Outside the stadium, to the left of the water fountain on a sort of plinth.

Level 6: What: Pink Convertible Caddillac Where: In Lisa's level (level 3) you get the last mission from the Sea Captain, the mission is called the Old Pirate and the Sea, it's in the wall (front first) on the other side of the building.

Level 7: What: Radio Control Buggy Where: Using the ramp on the back of two fire engines you can jump onto the roof of the building behind the Kwik-E-Mart using a SLOW vehicle. The vehicle you use must be something along the lines of a Civillian car because where you land isn't that far away from where you taike off

Costumes

During the game, it's possible to the characters buy different clothes.

Level One

• Homer Casual (Homer just wearing underpants)
• Homem Muumuu (Homer is obese, wearing a colorful dress and a white hat in reference to King-Size Homer)
• Homer Chosen-One (Homer wears his stonecutter's outfit)

Level Two

• Bart Tall (Bart is wearing suit with red and blue stripes in reference to Radioactive Man)
• Bart Ninja (Bart is wearing a ninja outfit from The Telltale Head)
• Bart Football (Bart is wearing a football outfit in reference to Bart Star)

Level Three

• Lisa Cool (Lisa is wearing a hat, glasses and a colorfull shirt on reference to Summer of 4 Ft. 2)
• Lisa Floreda (Lisa is wearing the Florida's outfit made by Homer)
• Lisa Hockey (Lisa wears a hockey outfit in reference to Lisa on Ice)

Level Four

• Marge Inmate (Marge is wearing a orange prisoner uniform on reference to Marge in Chains)
• Marge Classy (Marge is wearing the pink chanel dress on reference to Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield)
• Marge Police (Marge is wearing the police uniform on reference to The Springfield Connection)

Level Five

• Apu Army (Apu wearing an Indian Army suit)
• Apu American (Apu is wearing a cowboy hat and a baseball shirt on reference to Much Apu About Nothing)
• Apu Be-Sharps (Apu is wearing the Be-Sharps suit on reference to The Be Sharps)

Level Six

• Bart Hugo (Bart is in the shape of Hugo Simpson)
• Bart Cadet (Bart is wearing a cadet uniform on reference to The Secret War of Lisa Simpson)
• Bart Bartman (Bart is wearing the Bartman outfit)

Level Seven

• Homer Dirty (Homer is wearing dirty clothes with a green military jacket)
• Homer Evil (Homer is wearing his Devil cloth)
• Homer Donut (Homer has a donut-head on reference to Treehouse of Horror IV)

Collector Cards

At each level you can find hidden cards. When you collect all the cards, you get a bonus.

Level 1

• Home Made Football (Homer at the Bat)
• Crab Juice (The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson)
• Insanity Pepper (El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer))
• Spinemelter 2000 (Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?)
• Parchment (Homer the Great)
• Carbon Rod (Deep Space Homer)
• Mr. Sparkle Box (In Marge We Trust)

Level 2

• Head of Jebediah (The Telltale Head)
• AM Radio Toy (Radio Bart)
• Bonestorm Game (Marge Be Not Proud)
• Big Butt Skinner (Bart's Comet)
• Mr. Honeybunny (Lisa on Ice)
• Driver's License (Bart on the Road)
• Pregnancy Test (I Love Lisa)

Level 3

• Angel Skeleton (Lisa the Skeptic)
• Bart's Soul (Bart Sells His Soul)
• Lisa Lionheart (Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy)
• Lisa's Valentine (I Love Lisa)
• Lisa's Machine (The PTA Disbands)
• Evil Braces (Last Exit to Springfield)
• Soy Pop (Lisa's Wedding)

Level 4

• Mr. Plow Jacket (Mr. Plow)
• Burns Portrait (Brush With Greatness)
• Love Letter (Bart the Lover)
• "Homer" Bowling Ball (Life on the Fast Lane)
• Red Blazer (Realty Bites)
• Boudoir Album (They Saved Lisa's Brain)
• Pepper Spray (The Springfield Connection)

Level 5

• Apu's T-Shirt (Lisa the Vegetarian)
• Pin Pals Shirt (Team Homer)
• Prop 24 Sign (Much Apu About Nothing)
• Baby Feeder (Eight Misbehavin')
• Ganesh Costume (The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons)
• Chutney Squishee (The Otto Show)
• Hot Dog (Homer and Apu)

Level 6

• Radioactive Man #1 (Three Men and a Comic Book)
• "Bort" License Plate (Itchy and Scratchy Land)
• Bart T-Shirt (Bart Gets Famous)
• Australia Boot (Bart vs. Australia)
• Itchy and Scratchy Cel (Lady Bouvier's Lover)
• Gabbo Doll (Krusty Gets Kancelled)
• Bart's Flying Hamster Science Project (Duffless)

Level 7

• Soul Donut (The Devil and Homer Simpson)
• Krusty Doll (Clown Without Pity)
• Human Cookbook (Hungry are the Damned)
• Time Travel Toaster (Time and Punishment)
• Hell Toupee (Hell Toupee)
• Monkey's Paw (Lisa's Nightmare)
• "Smarch" Calendar (Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace)

Mistakes in the game

Suburban level

• It was Bart that had the digestive system model not Lisa.
• There is a very big lack of road junctions.
• In the game the trailer park is in Springfields run down area but it is really over 100 miles away according to Homer, although this may a foolish assumption on his part.
• Another distance error: you can see the worlds largest toilet on top of a hill yet it is really on a flat plain many miles from Springfield.
• The stonecutters hidden tunnel is hardly hidden and is not next to the highway but links with the power plant instead.

Downtown level

• Moe's Tavern is in front of a mafia building in the game but there is no evidence of this in the show.
• Once again there is a lack of road junctions there are more than in the previous level but for a downtown area it still doesn't have many.

Squidport level

• The androids dungeon comic book store is on a corner but as show many times in the show it is no where near a corner.
• The only bridge out of town is no where near the Springfield dam.
• Kamp Krusty is far out of town.
• The observatory and Springfield sign are close in the game yet the series shows they are on opposite sides of town to each other.
• The suicycle track was at Vegas not at Mr. Burns's casino.
• Mr. Burns's casino was demolished in the series, but is intact in the game.
• The Bowl-A-Rama is not by a slope of any kind nor is Wall-E-Weasel's.
• Yet another time there is a lack of road junctions.

See Also

• Characters in the Simpsons Hit and Run
• Locations in the Simpsons Hit and Run

External links

• The Simpsons Hit & Run Official Site