it was a average evening for me, you know walking to the store and what not but i had discovered something rather strange...

after my usual purchase of a drink for the walk, i was on my way home, when i saw something that confused me in a small box  labled "Free". now i assumed "tag sale leftovers" and for those of you who dont know, a tag sale is literally a yard sale or garage sale, but anways, the box had only one object in it. a PS2 Game Case for the Simpsons Hit N' Run. it looked old, the plastic and cover were torn, but it looked like the disk was inside. i picked it up and took a look at the case, then opened it, the clips that held the usual adds and gameplay book were broken and nothing was there, figures from a used game, but still, the disk looked pretty decent. it had a small scratch over the cover art, like it got chipped off , and that reminded me to check the back of the disk, it had a little crack on it, but one so minor i figured it'd work, i mean i've had plenty of damaged working copies of the game, and i still had my save-data on my memory card. so i grabbed the case and headed back home.
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this is where it got weird though, as soon as i put the disk into the ps2, the loading screen, usual developers screen and all that were normal as can be. until it got to the Press l> to start screen. now when i pressed the Start Button, on the controller, it didn't do anything. but you know every controller is like that now and then so i just ejected and put the controller back in, that seemed to work and the screen vanished like usual.

Now, i expected the usual menu screen, you know with homers fat-a** on the couch sleeping with the window and tv and what not, yada yada, but it loaded right into the game, on a loading screen.   Odd, but i shrugged it, maybe i hit resume and didnt realize. 
however, the newspaper had a article that i'd never seen before.
SEPTEMBER 1
Primary Article:
SPRINGFIELD IN POST APOCALYPTIC RECOVERY
TOWN IN QUARANTINE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Secondary Article:
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN CONFIRMED ON POWERPLANT

so i figured "You know, must be a rare edition of the game or something with a level 8?" the load screen was normal too with poor scratchy strapped to the dynamite. so i was like whatever as it loaded.

anyways it loaded like normal, and i found myself playing as Homer, he was wearing his Casuals, but they looked a little dirty, probably part of the map or something i figured. i wasnt in the simpson house though, i was right outside the power plant, which was blocked off by quarantine at the front gates. my car was a rusty looking Level 1 Sedan,  *in the cartoony hit n run style* and i noticed the sky was a normal blue color. perhaps it was going to be a map about cleaning up springfield?
and thats what it was....until the end.

The entire maps gameplay was pretty simalar to the other maps, and i kinda liked the new design. the tomado field was gone with burnt looking plants in placement, as if they tried to get rid of the "polluted" plants, some of the houses in the shitty part of town were boarded up, and others looked normal, the trailer park looked all the same. and the traffic consisted of Police cars with generic cops in them, normal SUV's with their regular color, Delivery Style Vans, kinda like the book burning mobile, but like, repaired versions that said "Apocalypse Cleanup Crew" probably a non-reference based joke, and the rest of traffic was just the trucks and whatnot that are normal cars but anyways, springfield all around was pretty expectable for what i saw, some houses had boards on them, some didnt some had broken window textures with generic painted rooms. the cementary was open, and like on level 7 the rich area was still under government protection.
a odd thing though was that the tire fire was re-textured to be a pile of Zombie corpses, and the sign was Labled "Springfield zombie disposal". probably just dark humor.

The missions were pretty much the same as before, but ill name a few of the objectives
"Collecting Zombie remains before time runs out and bringing them to the cementary to be re-buried by the guy there who you get the mission from" 
"helping chief wiggum stop the few remaining ghosts and skeletons lurking springfield by destroying their cars"
"finding supplies around springfield to help repair the school"

and corny stuff like that. however, the last few missions got a little dark, and i hadn't noticed, but so did the sky, the texture wasn't rendered properly anymore and it was almost transparent, showing a pure red color behind the blue, creating kind of a purple, which to me personally looked kinda pretty , but still odd.
one of the missions towards the end was called "spreading the end of the spread"
the mission was from marge, homer was supposed to use a modified version of the plow king, basically just it with the light removed, and the salt replaced with a few generic zombie bodies, and dull spikes on the plow. homer was supposed to chase down cars that had "infected indivisuals" in them and destroy the cars to contain them" now heres the creepy part, the cars avoided traffic, and props , but hit pedestrians quite often if i got too close, now normally they do, but these drivers actually seemed terrified of me. the closer i got the faster they drove, and more they seemed to drive in a panic when i damaged their cars.
the first car blew up, and i expected a npc to appear to mimic them jumping out of the car, but when it exploded, nobody came out, instead, a skeleton model appeared in a driving position in the drivers side of the broken car frame you get when your car explodes, i was gonna try to get into it, but wasnt able to leave the plow king during the mission, so i was like whatever and chased after the next driver, however i failed the mission and got a weird screen. i couldnt cancel i could only retry, and so i did and did the same routine making it to the second driver.

now this was a mission that was based around distance from the driver and damage, there was no timer thankfully because i chased them from the school all the way to the power plant area before finally destroying their car. this time i was expecting the usual explosion with the skeleton and what not, and i did get that, but i noticed something odd, it did the yell that a female pedestrian does if you hit them, yet this area had no pedestrians at all. i also noticed that the driver was a generic male driver but was like whatver probably a glitch. i had one more driver to defeat in this and started to chase them, this one was easy though since the car glitched into a fence near the barn with the cows, and i just kept ramming it till it blew up. i got the mission completed screen and the game glitched, instead of homer doing some kinda funny gimmic like he normally does it sounded like he said "What have i done?"

i had a shiver go down my spine, but ignored that, i decided to see what the next mission was, and if it was just as unusual i wouldnt continue it. the next one i had to go find lisa near the Retirement castle ..no clue why but i did. when i went there the mission dialogue was about how bart was accused of being a infected indivisual and was taken by a mysterious car.

the mission was about me chasing the car before time ran out to figure out where it was going. it was kind hard with traffic but i did manage to do it, it took him all the way to the Quarantine by the school where the ramp was. mr.burns was there, and the dialogue was homer accusing him of taking bart. the audio cut out and it was jus them talking. and then the mission complete screen appeared. but instead of jumping in joy, homer just stood, and the sky was turning more red now as the blue vanished, the mr.burns npc, walked through the quarantine and i noticed it merge through the ramp and vanish.

the model of the car was still there, i dont know if i mentioned it, but it was the Armored truck model, this one was different though, you could see a driver, and bart in the back window. just staring straight out with a blank look, the driver was generic, like all traffic, and i figured it was there until i looked away. so i walked down the road and looked back. it was still there. so i tried to get into my car but homer wouldnt get in the drivers side, he entered as if a AI was in it on the passanger side.
the car could be driven though oddly, kinda like the glitch with the Bee's when they shoot a driver in a convertable. so i went along with it to see where this went.