To at the present time, gamers nonetheless love The Simpsons: Hit & Run, and apparently there might have been extra, if it wasn’t for somebody who helped publish the sport.
I am unsure if there is a PS2 sport extra universally beloved than The Simpsons: Hit & Run. I’ve simply by no means heard a nasty phrase in opposition to it, and even now persons are clamouring for a port or remaster, but one has by no means materialised. The Grand Theft Auto-esque sport offered effectively on the time, but in some way a sequel by no means materialised, and now we’d have some concept why. Earlier this month, YouTube Summoning Salt, who basically makes total documentaries on the historical past of varied video games’ speedrunning scenes, launched a video all about The Simpsons: Hit & Run, and as noticed by GamesRadar, a remark was really left behind from the sport’s lead designer, Joe McGinn.
McGinn’s remark was initially one simply saying how “extremely enjoyable and heartwarming” the video was to see as the sport’s lead designer, however he later shared in one other remark that truly, the movie might have had as much as three sequels, all with out paying the licence price for The Simpsons itself. McGinn defined that The Simpsons’ manufacturing firm Gracie Movies “provided our writer a deal to make three sequels, with all Simpsons rights and voice actors, for the popular worth of zero {dollars} (we would not need to pay something for the Simpsons licence in different phrases).”
With a proposal like that, and the sport being as profitable because it was, there’s clearly the query of, “why did nobody greenlight this?” Effectively, as McGinn continued to clarify, “some loopy particular person on the writer – we by no means came upon who – mentioned no.” That is clearly fairly the wild choice, and definitely a irritating one for the devs themselves, however alas, 20 years on there’s not precisely a lot anybody can do about it as of late. Possibly sooner or later we’ll get a port on the very least.