Since the Simpsons’ TV showed launched in 1989, more video games have been made about them than just about any non-game franchise this side of Star Wars and Dragonball Z. Unfortunately, the medium doesn’t have much to show for it.
With Halo 3′s “Believe” ad campaign winning advertising awards left and right, it’s time for EA to step up to the award podium, or at least EA’s trailer producers, Hammer Creative. They’ve just been awarded the “Best Video Game Trailer” award at the 9th Annual Golden Trailer Awards for their The Simpsons Game: Medal of Homer trailer. A spoof of EA’s own Medal of Honour series, the ad features Bart and Homer invading Franchise, belching, and scratching their asses…truly the hallmarks of a truly great trailer, ever since Humphrey Bogart garlic-burped in Ingrid Bergman’s face in the classic Casablanca teaser. Hammer Creative is no stranger to the Golden Trailer Awards, having won last year for the trailer to Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent and the year before for The Godfather: The Game. Hit the jump to see the award-winning clip in all its pristine glory.
The Simpsons game was a great concept. Had some good moments. Pity those were all cutscenes, then, and not the parts you actually got to play. Which leaves Simpsons fans in a pickle – how to enjoy the animated sequences and gags without having to submit yourself to cash expenditure and hours of gameplay? YouTuber TheCockCrew’s got your back, and has gone and filmed the entirety of the game. Cutscenes and all. Links’ below, if you’re at all interested in saving yourself a few hours time. TheCockCrew’s Videos [YouTube, via GSW]
Check out one minute, 20 seconds or so in to see Will Wright deliver a message to the gamey versions of the Simpsons. In it he describes himself, as he tucks his glasses firmly up the bridge of his nose, as the “nerdiest nerd in the computerverse”. And “Will Wright bitch!”
EA product placement in an EA game, the mind boggles.
Looks like someone at the EA marketing department thought they’d have a laugh and swipe the hard work of Gawker Media’s crack design team. Sorry, EA, but we have a patent (pending) on viciously nauseating colour schemes. You’ll be hearing from our lawyers. We’re obviously willing to settle for nine complimentary copies of The Simpsons Game, including one for the Kotaku archives, but might play hardball for a tenth.
Seriously, not funny. We’re all smoldering with generic rage right now. And by smoldering with generic rage, I mean giddy and thrilled that someone at EA added us to The Simpsons Game parody target list.
Moetaku [EA - thanks, Nathan!]
The more I see of The Simpsons game the more I want to play it. Good thing they aren’t releasing it anywhere near that abortive movie. What a piece of crap, I can’t believe how bad it was.
The Simpsons Game might be the best selling Simpsons game of all time—that is, if EA keeps pumping out marketing gold like this Rockstar Games inspired clip. I may justifiably hate The Scorpions like they were responsible for the murder of my family, but even I reflexively fist pumped to this new The Simpsons Game spot. Sure, the game may turn into a derivative putrid stew, but can you deny the power of this clip?
In this latest Simpsons Game clip we get a look at Marge’s special attacks. I suspect that the game is going to be much better than the movie, but that wouldn’t be too hard to do.
The Simpsons Game We sat down with EA’s The Simpsons Game at Games Convention, rumps firmly stuffed into the Fatboy beanbags at Microsoft’s Xbox 360 beach booth for a bit of split-screen multiplayer with Bart and Lisa. Our co-op adventure took us through a Lisa appropriate themed area, a redwood forest being slashed by a menacing lumber company, complete with foresters armed with back-mounted wood chipper guns.
I, as Bart (and Bartman), and Crecente, as Lisa, helped each other overcome obstacles and take down a mechanised lumber processing monster by using our special powers. Bart, armed with an electrified slingshot, took out most of the overall-clad bad guys (which happen to infinitely spawn from a port-a-potty, by the way). Lisa was given puzzle solving duties, using her Buddha palm powers to lift great tree trunks, arrange buzzsaws wedged in trees, and work out pipe puzzles with her all powerful mystical grip. Crecente looked like he was having an easy go of it, while I spent my time platforming, picking up bonus Krusty Koupons and wiping out angry workers.
