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I love The Simpsons: Hit and Run.
I loved it as a kid, and I love it now.
And clearly I’m not the only one who loves it.
But I’m currently replaying The Simpsons' antics on my old PS2, and…
I honestly don’t think I want a remake.
And if you strip away the rose-tinted beer goggles, you probably don’t either.
But what caught me more off guard was how primitive themechanicsfelt.
The driving is springy and perfectly adequate, but pretty rudimentary even for the time.
Hit and Run is a creature of 2003, down to the DNA.
It’s both a fatal flaw and its greatest strength.
So it’s pretty vestigial.
The benchmark for remakes, as I see it, would be something like Resident Evil 2.
Filling it out with new mechanics would demand a completely different kind of game built around it.
And the elements that haven’t aged well can’t really be fixed.
Simpsons Hit and Run is a creature of 2003, down to the DNA.
