At Disney’s D23 event, Simpsons creator Matt Groening said that “the original game is coming back in some form,” referring to The Simpsons: Hit & Run. That was enough to throw the game back into the spotlight, even though there’s still been no official announcement.
Then Simpsons executive producer Matt Selman tossed in an “or not,” which is a pretty clear sign not to get too carried away. Nothing has been confirmed. Even so, that little exchange was enough to set off a fresh round of talk about a remaster, a remake, a port, or some other kind of comeback.
Anyone who played The Simpsons: Hit & Run in 2003 probably gets why people still care. The PS2, Xbox, GameCube, and PC release took a GTA-style open world, dropped it into Springfield, let you switch between characters, and packed in humor that actually felt like the show.
So if you’ve been waiting for a proper modern version of The Simpsons: Hit & Run, this is something to watch. The game still hasn’t shown up on current platforms, and fans have kept it alive with PC mods, online multiplayer, total conversions, connected maps, and even a fan remake in Unreal Engine 5.
The biggest problem still looks like the corporate side. Disney is part of it. Activision is too, along with Vivendi’s Microsoft ties, and Electronic Arts also complicates things because of its past Simpsons licensing. Selman has called it a “complicated corporate octopus,” though he also said “never say never,” and former Radical Entertainment developers have said they’d be happy to see it come back.
For now, the original The Simpsons: Hit & Run is still only playable on its older platforms, because there’s no new version to download yet.
Author: Jesús Bosque
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