Thursday, May 24, 2007

Someone Needs to make this..

A Simpson's First person shooter (FPS). That would be great. I was reading on Crave, a tech-blog for Cnet, and it was about EA making a new Simpson's game in line with the movie coming out next spring or something like that. Any way, I commented like I do on the site, and decided to try and go into more depth here. So if those of you who like the Simpson's, comment and add anything you would like to see on this new FPS game.
Setting: Springfield with other locations (maps) to unlock or load via the Internet. The city and everything in the map is user friendly. This means that you can play or enter buildings, jump on statues or benches. Anything in the environment is playable and will also be affected by gun play. For instance, if you say, throw a grenade at an enemy and they are near a trashcan and a light post, the trashcan and light post will fall down/ blow up, just as the grenade blows up. Or if you see an enemy walking past a store front, and you shoot him/her with a high caliber gun, then that person would get throw backwards through the glass window.
Playable Characters: Of course you can play as anyone of the characters you see from the TV series. From Bart to Homer, even Maggie if you want. You can be Sideshow Bob, or the Bee-Man. Or Ralph Wiggum or Lunch lady Doris. So any characters that you have seen in the show you can play. Of course with each character comes special abilities. If you play a kid, you will of course be some what faster and more agile. If you play as one of the mafia characters or police officers your aim is a little better. Just some small abilities but each character can win at any time or any day.

Weapons: Taking some characteristics from Crackdown for the Xbox game, any "movable" objects can be used as weapons. Let's say you shoot a parked car and it blows up or flips over and an enemy is right next to it. That explosion or flip of the car can hurt the enemy.
Here are some basic Weapons and Variations of these Basic Weapons that could be used or found in the game:

Basic Weapons
Variations
Comments
9mm hand gundual 9mm hand gunshand gun in both hands
Shotgun
N/A

Chain-gun / mini gunStreet sweepermy favorite weapon from Q2. Uses shotgun bullets as opposed to the regular ammo

Grenades
N/A

Grenade launcherMultiple Grenade launcher shoots multiple grenades at the same time
Rocket LauncherN/A

Sniper Rifle
N/A

Land mines
Trip-Wire mines

Machine Gun
Machine Gun with Grenade launcher

BFG (Big F*cking Gun)



Vehicles: Unlike other FPS games except for a few, this one will allow characters to hop on any vehicle found in the game / cartoon. You have your basic cars (Simpson car), marge's SUV, scooters, tanks, and the duff blimp.

Storyline: Not much of a story line. This is a straight multi player FPS game. Death matches, Co-op, Capture the flag. But mostly it focuses on the FPS shoot em up type of games. Where you get a group of friends together, link up some game systems and fight it out.
Technology: This may be far fetched but by linking game systems up, you can have this large about of shooting madness throughout a house on any platform. Lets say, that there are 3 TVs in the house. There are 3 different game systems connected to those TVs. Just pop in the Simpson's FPS Game into each console and load up the game. From there, it will find any game system via electrical outlet / configuration of that house, and link each system up. Once all 3 game consoles have been identified and loaded, the match begins with as many players as the game consoles and fit.

So this will be the game of the future if anyone decides to build upon it. I chose the Simpson's just because they have a game coming out. But also because I like the series. So if there are any comments or adjustments you may want to make, let me know.

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