Simpsons Road Rage - Gamecube Game

There's road rage, and then there's road rage - Simpsons style! Refusing to shell out the high rates, Springfield citizens are forced into humorous Simpsons' "road rage" as they brave commuters, jam-packed back-routes and the challenge to make enough money to buy back the Transit Corporation before time runs out. Complete up to 60 unique passenger deliveries in story mode, or take a leisurely Sunday drive through the fair Springfield. No time for donuts, Homer.

Product Details

UPC: 014633144253
Condition: Used
Genre: Racing
Platform: Nintendo Gamecube
Region: NTSC (N. America)
ESRB: Teen
SKU: GC_SIMPSONS_ROAD_RAGE

This game is fully clean, tested & working. Includes the Disc/Cartridge Only. May have some minor scratches/scuffs. This description was last updated on October 28th, 2020.

The Simpsons: Road Rage

The Simpsons: Road Rage is a 2001 video game base on the animated television series The Simpsons, and is part of a series of games base on the show. It was release for PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube. A Game Boy Advance version was release in 2003. The Simpsons: Road Rage was later add to the Backwards Compatibility program of the Xbox 360 for original Xbox games.

The game stars Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa, as well as Mr. Burns and several other characters from the show. The Simpsons: Road Rage is similar to Sega's 1999 video game Crazy Taxi, in that the main objective is to drive pick up passengers to their destinations as quickly as possible. These similarities led to Sega suing Radical Entertainment and Electronic Arts for patent infringement, though it was settle before going to court. The game receive mix reviews, being consider a bare-bones Crazy Taxi clone and criticize for its poor graphics. A spiritual successor, The Simpsons: Hit & Run, was release in 2003 and develop by Radical Entertainment.

Gameplay and plot

The Simpsons: Road Rage is base on the animated television series The Simpsons. In the story of the game, Mr. Burns has bought all transit systems in Springfield and has begun to create radioactive buses that threaten the public health. Because of this, the citizens of Springfield must use their own cars as a means of safer public transport and earn money in an attempt to pay back Burns to get rid of the radioactive buses and return the town back to normal.

The citizens of the city (control by the game player) earn money by driving around a vehicle for a given amount of time, picking up passengers and taking them to their destinations. The player receives money upon successfully dropping off each passenger. And bonuses are obtain when they are transport in a short amount of time. Players have to avoid certain hurdles, such as other vehicles and Burns' nuclear transit buses. The game contains sixteen different collectible vehicles, six starting locations. And ten different missions. In order to collect the vehicles and unlock starting locations, players must earn progressively more money for each vehicle or starting location they want to get. In order to complete missions, players must do certain things (such as protecting Krusty the Clown from a fan mob by driving him away, and getting Homer to his workplace unnotice).

At first, the only playable characters (taxi drivers) are Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Grampa. But as the game progresses more characters are unlock. There is also a multiplayer mode in which the two players compete to pick up the same passengers and drive them to their destinations.