Electronic Arts today announced the upcoming release of The Simpsons Game (working title, like The Simpsons XXII). The Simpsons Game is said to feature a hilarious, sprawling, and mind-busting storyline crafted by the TV show’s Emmy Award-winning writers. The action-comedy will also feature the full cast of voice actors from the TV show who will reprise their roles for the cel-shaded game with over 8,000 lines of dialogue. Developer EA Redwood Shores Studio, has scheduled The Simpsons Game for release in Fall 2007 for the PS3, PS2, PSP, Xbox 360, Wii, and DS to go along with the DVD release of the upcoming Simpsons movie.
In The Simpsons Game, Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa get sucked into a video game and then use exciting, all-new powers to save the world from rising chaos. You’ll be able to switch between two characters, and split screen co-op will be available. To help the Simpsons, gamers at home must journey through 16 levels all around Springfield and beyond, vanquish an amazing array of villains, and fight their way through parodies of multiple popular games. Everything from RPGs to World War II shooters. Itchy and Scratchy join in with their own controversial true-crime videogame, “Grand Theft Scratchy: Blood Island.”
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“Our goal in developing The Simpsons Game is to create the most original game ever, which is a lofty goal and only possible given the close collaboration with ‘The Simpsons’ creative team,” said Scot Amos, Executive Producer of the project. “We’re also especially proud of the game’s warm visual feel, which captures – for the first time ever in a game – the look of the TV show.”
Added Amos, “As Comic Book Guy says, ‘Best. Simpsons Game. Ever!'”
“The EA group was so enormously talented and beyond belief energetic that I am thinking of suing for second hand exhaustion,” said James L. Brooks, Executive Producer of ‘The Simpsons’.
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