Difficulty:

Easy

Time Spent:

10 to 20 Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Waste of time"

Okay, where do you want to start... This game is the worse buy of the year for me. Too bad it was a present to someone else... man I feel bad for that... If you ever liked the multilayer Simpsons game or the NES Simpsons games, this is not the game for you. Heck, this is a game for no one.

Okay graphical style okay, execution of graphical style horrid. The style is actually great, but it was so cheaply done, that I wonder what the budget on this game was. (Maybe interns made this game....)

The graphics mixed with the horrible control scheme anyone playing this game could easily get car sick. At first I thought I was too close to the TV, but then I realized that I was twice as far as I typically am when playing this game.

The camera angles are horrible as well, who in the hell thought a static camera was a great idea? The camera controls reminded me of trying to play Oddworld: Munchies Odyssey on my X360, which was the worst camera controls on a game I was actually willing to play when I was younger. (I love Wii over X360, trust me, I just hate this game.)

Pop-up (cliche) okay, besides the fact of how annoying this is, it is pointless and stupid as well. It stops gameplay to let you know some tidbit of information. Well thanks buddy, but I could care less. I want to play games, not read.

The writing is good, but the sounds made by the character get annoying fast. The first level alone listening to homer say the same things over and over again. Best me up side the head in an itchy and scratchy cartoon, PLEASE!!! They sound was of good quality, but they needed higher quantity during gameplay. The sound FX were definitely up to par

I give them points for the humor in the game, but then again, that was created by the people who write for the cartoon. So all in all, anything EA did for this game was the wrong thing. EA needs to go to hell long story short. Enough about EA though, and their greedy executives that just care about profit.

The true value of this game is around $15 in my opinion. I gave it an honest try, and really wanted it to be of value, but it failed. It made me realize that limiting the games/expansions I buy from EA to one a year, is definitely an idea I am sticking to for now on. So I guess I am not buying Spore this year since I bought this lame game this year as a present for someone else. (Man, what the heck can I get now to make up for a lame present?)

-The Short-
Gameplay: 2/10 - entertaining for a little while
Graphics: 1.5/10 - good style, poor quality
Sound: 4/10 - great, but too repetitive during gameplay
Value: 1/10 - extremely low, but worth at least $5
Tilt: 1.5/10 - Unoriginal, but loved the parodies
Overall: 2.0

If you wonder where I got the Review Deck from look under bad, even though I think this game is terrible: http://www.gamespot.com/misc/reviewguidelines-old.html

[PS, when did GameSpot go lame and quit rating gameplay, graphics, sound, value, and tilt? Oh, was it when EA gave them some money to boost ratings for games made by them? That's right. It is like Angie's list, where companies pay more for them to delete bad reviews. {I dare you to prove me wrong and keep this up here, even if you delete this section in [brackets].}]