Facelift in textures, models and cinematics!
All of us who grew up watching the misadventures of Home and company keep great memories of The Simpsons: Hit & Run, a game that came out for PS2, Xbox and Game Cube in 2003. A action game and open world in the purest GTA style that he managed to capture the whole essence of the series and add one more point of hooliganism, despite the fact that he did what he could with the technology of the time. There are currently several projects trying to remake the game with modern engines, although there is one modder in particular working on remaster The Simpsons: Hit & Run in an incredible way.
Unlike the rest of the remake projects, this work by El Gato del Tejado is a mod for the original game, although looking at the results, it could be a completely different game. Not only does it have a new cell shading visual section, it has also improved 3D models and tweaked cinematics of the game.
The Simpsons: Hit & Run with a new look thanks to the work of a modder
As we can see in this new trailer shared by the modder, the project begins replacing some very low quality textures by improved versions, such as some billboards. The next thing he touches up are the bart and lisa 3d modelswith Lisa’s being the more complicated of the two because of her hair, which she decides to recreate in 3D instead of as a flat texture.
As for the cinematics, The Cat on the Roof set out to give them a facelift, but instead of animating them in 3D he decided do it in 2D in a similar way to the aesthetics of the series. To do this, he had to learn to draw in Matt Groening’s style and do it by hand, since techniques such as rotoscoping offered very irregular results on the characters.
The next mod development update will be coming in a couple of months and will again focus on high-resolution textures and more detail on animation. It is unknown if once completed it will be accessible to the general public, currently it does not appear to be the case.
Will The Simpsons: Hit & Run return officially?
If it depended on the desire of the fans and those responsible for the series and the original game, we would already have a remake or remastering of The Simpsons: Hit & Run on the way, but unfortunately that will not be the case. The final decision is up to FOX, now also disney as the parent company, and neither of the two companies has shown any signs of wanting such a project to be carried out