Ram tells me about how their business model is more based on exchanges than simply the buying and selling of products, using a Samsung Galaxy S2 as an example of an item that you'd get a great trade-in rate for at their place compared to elsewhere. My email to CeX asked, basically, why an eight-year-old game that they've no shortage of still sells for $40. The first level has you playing as Homer in The Land of Chocolate Hell, keeping things strictly same-year here, there are loads of games from 2007 that are better experiences (both then and today) than EA's interpretation of Springfield and its colorful inhabitants: Crackdown, Virtua Fighter 5, The Darkness, BioShock, Halo 3, Assassin's Creed, Beautiful Katamari, and Lost Planet: Extreme Condition all come recommended ahead of The Simpsons Game, and that's before you consider titles that weren't available on Xbox 360. By which I mean too many potential waypoints for the path through the game in question to be anything but terrifically confused.īut here we are, in 2015, with The Simpsons Game costing $30 more than the much better Burnout Paradise. It's the game that 2014's The Crew desperately wanted to be, albeit on a larger environmental scale, but was expectedly hamstrung by Ubisoft's persistence for placing-to quote VICE writer Edwin Evans-Thirlwell – "angry bangles" all over their world maps. That's a game of innovation, of variety, depth, and compelling (re)playability. If you'd asked me then which of the two would cost gamers of 2015 more to pick up and play, I'd be opting for Criterion's open-world racer every second of any day. I bought The Simpsons Game in 2008 as part of a two-for-$45 deal, with Burnout Paradise my complementary selection. You know how it goes-"Value for an item keeps changing as per the market condition." That's the line I receive from Ram in the CeX "We Care" team when I contact them to ask why, as it's been on sale since 2007 and they have no shortage of copies (188 at the time of writing), The Simpsons Game for Xbox 360 retails for $40. As the months pass so the price drops, unless there's substantial demand for the game in question, in which case CeX can charge more. A game comes out, and while it's relatively current the cost stays barely beneath the RRP. It handles films and gadgets too, but a great amount of shelf space, physically and virtually, is given over to video games, from the PlayStation 2 era right up to the present day. With some 270 locations in the UK you've likely seen one at least, and perhaps even on your travels-there are 18 CeX stores in Ireland, 43 in Spain, 14 in the USA, and one in Mexico. Browse its website for new-release titles and you'll usually shave a few pounds off the brand-new asking price. While we may never see the return of Hit & Run, at least you can enjoy a version of it in Dreams, complete with Bart skateboarding sections, a saxophone-playing Lisa, and a gun-slinging Maggie-all of which can explore the town of Springfield.CeX is one of the UK's biggest traders of second-hand video games.
( Editor’s Note: Licensing agreements notwithstanding, particularly now that Disney owns Fox and its properties.) After all, the original game sold somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 million copies. Sane Trilogy, Spyro: Reignited Trilogy, and Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled are any indication, bringing back Hit & Run could be lucrative for those involved. Towards the end of 2019, the game’s producer Vlad Ceraldi talked about wanting to bring it back in some capacity but noted that there were no solid plans to do so at the time.
With remakes and remasters running rampant in the video game world, the idea of seeing The Simpsons: Hit & Run again isn’t outside the realm of possibility. It’s unclear if its creator plans to keep fleshing things out, but nonetheless, this looks and is presented just like the game you remember. Though the recreation still needs some work with its open-world aspects (like more variety in buildings and other features to make the world feel more alive), the foundation of an impressive game is there. Hit & Run features an open world similar to that of 2001’s Grand Theft Auto III, but done so in more of a satirical way, in typical Simpsons fashion. Each of its characters is identical to those in the original, with Homer, Marge, Bart, Maggie, and Lisa in playable form.