Frankly, the fact that The Simpsons Game is selling huge numbers at this moment should make me want to vent my spleen all over this page. Twisting the knife for us is the fact that it comes from EA a company known for producing licensed games with high-production values, but occasionally with little regard for originality, quality or the original source material. Instead they buy The Simpsons Game because they know the name and they know the characters. Or they could or saving their pennies for Super Mario Galaxy or Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction. Those people could be out buying The Orange Box or Metroid Prime 3 or Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass. We know it’s going to sell millions, and many of those to people who buy two or three games a year at the most. You can see the same thing when games reviewers look at a game like this one. The critic can’t help wishing the crowds would go and see or buy something more worthy, but at the same time they know that whatever they say isn’t going to make a damn bit of difference. You can see it every time some broadsheet film critic goes to see something like Transformers. You can see it every time a band like Coldplay releases an album and the critics sulk that people who aren’t really music fans are picking it up when they do their weekly shop at Tesco. It’s a sad fact that most critics have a love/hate relationship with the public at large. ”’Platforms: PS3, PS2, PSP, DS, Wii, Xbox 360 – PS3 version reviewed.”’
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