Virtual Springfield

List Price: $29.98

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine	The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family	Simpsons Comics Simpsorama	The Simpsons Guide to Springfield

Customer Reviews:

Take a ride through Springfield [Posted on 2002-12-25]
VS allows you to take a humorous tour around Springfield,occasionally finding keys that will allow you to unlock certain places.Fun and funny to look at now and then.

I love it! [Posted on 2002-12-30]
Speaking as a big simpson fan I really like this game!It's not as much a game as it is an interactive envirernment ripped from the show!The 3d when walking on the street is okay but the 2d areas look great!Plus the characters are voiced by the voice acters from the show.And there are many many events that fans will reconize from the show!Oh and it contains two new itchy and scratchy shorts!I could keep going on and on with the details on this but I don't want to waste your time.So I will finish by saying that if you are a simpsons fan get it!

I love it! [Posted on 2002-12-30]
Speaking as a big simpson fan I really like this game!It's not as much a game as it is an interactive envirernment ripped from the show!The 3d when walking on the street is okay but the 2d areas look great!Plus the characters are voiced by the voice acters from the show.And there are many many events that fans will reconize from the show!Oh and it contains two new itchy and scratchy shorts!I could keep going on and on with the details on this but I don't want to waste your time.So I will finish by saying that if you are a simpsons fan get it!

The beginning of what is known as the Simpsons Curse for me [Posted on 2005-02-14]
While the curse began with "Cartoon Studio" for many Simpsons fans, it began with Virtual Springfield for me. Now, I'll began by saying that this is one of the worst designed game ever. The developers attempted to use the "Kids game" excuse, but they even fail at that.

Using myself as an example, I first got this game when I was seven years old. At this particular time in my life, I was EXTREMELY easy to please, but this game couldn't even achieve that.

The first and instantly noticeable problem with this game is that it is choppy and poorly programmed. I first played this game on a poor PC, but I later got a high end PC. I decided to give this game a second chance and I discovered something in the process. The game is choppy because it is poorly designed and programmed, not because my old PC was bad. If you were to look at the requirements, you could see that is is VERY low. The high end PC I had contained specs at least 5-10x higher than the requirements, yet the game was STILL choppy.

And it's not just some parts of the game, it's EVERY part. When you turn, when you walk, when you do ANYTHING, you will notice the choppiness. That is, of course, assuming you have 20/20 vision or are wearing your glasses. Then again, you might notice it either way.

The next and the second most noticeable problem is that the game has no substance. There are very few things you could do and the few things you could gets boring quickly. For example, the main thing you will be doing is simply exploring Springfield. This is all nice and good, but what happens when you explored everywhere? Absolutely nothing. The game ends there. Of course, you could also collect cards, but it is so ridiculously easy that you can probably finish by the time you're done exploring. Hell, at the time I first got this, I couldn't solve ANY kind of puzzle, yet I did it anyway. In addition to this, the few minigames that are here are simply terrible. They were made to only take your attention for a minute or two. There are freeware online that are better than these minigames.

Now, Virtual Springfield has already committed two of the the worst possible crimes for PC games (bad programming and no gameplay), but to make the whole package even worse, it's expensive. At the current time of this review, the lowest price offered for this game on Amazon is $10.99. Selling a game THIS bad and that you could beat in less than one day for anything higher than $3 should be a federal offense punishable by 50 lashings.

Overall, it is a terrible game that has once again proven that the old saying "Don't judge a book by its cover". I had thought that since this was a free roaming Simpsons game, it would rock the casbah, but I now realized my mistake. Don't make the same mistake I did.

virtual springfield - waste of money [Posted on 2005-07-07]
I purchased Virtual Springfield for my sons. The computer disc came promptly, sooner than expected. The disc worked one day. Since the one time that the children used this disc, it has not worked. I have tried it on 2 PCs, 3 MACs (it is supposed to be read both by PCs and MACs). I have taken it to work and tried it on my computer at work. We have tried it on the original computer where it worked the first time. The disc no longer works. It is not damaged in any way that I can discern. When I called the technical support number, it rings to a private residence. The answering machine states that it is not the technical support desk. This leads me to believe that I am not the only one who has had problems with this computer disc. Needless to say, my childen are immensely disappointed. Under no circumstances would I ever recommend that this item be purchased. If I could give it less than one star, I would.

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