GT-Abe gateway drug The Simpsons Hit & Run‘s status a thing people my age remember from their childhoods has earned it a strong modding community, and the latest export to come out of it is a Futurama total conversion designed to mirror an official expansion. It’s predictably called Futurama: Hit & Run and has a demo out now.
For free, of course, so attempts to deploy the ‘shut up and take my money’ meme here are thoroughly misplaced. If you’ve already said it while reading that first paragraph, please submit to death by snu-snu. No wait, that makes it sound like I’m going to be the one doing the-
Getting back on track, Futurama: Hit & Run devs Slurm Team’s recreation of New New York consists of new 3D models built “from scratch”. There are four fresh story missions to sink your teeth into while playing as formerly freezered delivery boy Fry, plus a bonus mission. Naturally, the 30th century also has three new street races and a wager-based one. Prepare to eat some dust, pantless space ranger Zapp Brannigan.
There are six cars with which to bump cartoon pedestrians into t-posey ragdoll falls. four costumes to don, and 25 wasps to awkwardly jump-kick. Amusingly, the modders specify that their work contains exactly ten side-gags, including one elusive secret gag to hunt down. I assume all of them are buttons you press so that Ralph Wiggum says a thing, as all Hit and Run jokes should be.
It’s worth noting that while a full custom soundtrack’s up and running, Slurm Team have made clear they’ve used “AI-generated dialogue as temporary placeholders” in the demo. “Please note that these synthetic voices are included solely for demonstration purposes,” the modders wrote. “Professional voice artists are already engaged, and their recordings will replace the placeholder content in a future update.”
Personally, I think I’ll wait for that update to materialise before I think about giving the mod a go (I’ll also need to acquire a non-PS2 copy of Hit & Run). In a fun twist, the trailer’s seemingly caught the eye of Joe McGinn, a senior game designer on the original, and he’s left a comment indicating he’s keen to try the mod out.
To get Futurama: Hit & Run hit and running, you’ll need a copy of Hit & Run for PC, plus Lucas’ Simpsons Hit & Run Mod Launcher.
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