Simpsons Hit & Run 2 Would Have Added Planes And Extra

The unique Simpsons: Hit & Run, launched 20 years in the past in 2003, ended up being an enormous hit and bought hundreds of thousands of copies. So a sequel, that includes planes, was deliberate. However then the writer shocked everybody when it handed on a sweetheart deal to create extra Hit & Run video games.

Developed by Radical Leisure and revealed by Vivendi, The Simpsons Hit & Run was a semi-open-world GTA-like online game starring the favored Simpsons household and a bunch of different characters from the long-running animated present. It was launched to constructive evaluations in September 2003 on PS2, GameCube, and Xbox. It additionally bought extremely effectively, was beloved by followers, and had a growth crew that was excited to create extra. And Fox, in addition to the oldsters behind The Simpsons, needed extra and supplied a deal to Vivendi that might have led to probably 5 extra sequels. However the writer handed, in keeping with people who labored on the sport.

In a new video interview from MinnMax, six of the unique builders and producers who labored on Hit & Run sat down to offer an oral historical past of how the favored sport got here to be. Throughout this dialogue, govt producer John Melchior (who labored with Fox) defined that the sequel was a “no-brainer” for everybody concerned.

In response to Melchior and the others, whereas the unique Hit & Run solely featured automobiles and vans, the deliberate sequel would have featured blimps, airships, and planes.“We had tons to go on The Simpsons [Hit & Run]. This was going to be a franchise, little doubt in anyone’s thoughts,” Melchior mentioned.  

Hit & Run programmers Cary Brisebois and Greg Mayer additional revealed that work was being accomplished on a towing mechanic that might have let gamers drag round wagons and trailers behind automobiles.

Sadly for followers of Hit & Run, Vivendi handed on the deal. Melchior claimed the five-game deal would have price the writer the identical or lower than it paid for the Simpsons license for simply Hit & Run. He defined that the deal was so good as a result of everybody at Fox and The Simpsons TV present was impressed by Hit & Run and needed extra. However as a result of Vivendi handed on it, EA swooped in and purchased the license to provide its personal Simpsons video games.

A Hit & Run remake? Perhaps…

After all, sequels appear unlikely now, however all the people concerned within the sport’s creation would like to see a remake. In actual fact, throughout the interview, all of them expressed admiration for YouTuber reubs’ UE5 remake, with one developer saying that Disney (who now owns Fox) ought to simply launch that fan sport because it’s higher than what they made.

That most likely received’t occur, and in keeping with Melchior a remake must contain each Disney and Activision (who owns the unique sport code). So don’t maintain your breath for a brand new Hit & Run sport anytime quickly.

Or do! However earlier than you go out whereas ready for a sequel or remake, I’d advocate watching the complete MinnMax oral historical past interview because it reveals extra details about the sport’s growth, together with who added these cool vacation cheat codes, what Fox made them reduce, how Simpsons’ writers tried to sneak in dirtier jokes than what the present would permit, and the way we nearly obtained a PSP port of the sport.

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