Hit & Run received "generally favorable" reviews on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic,[10][11][12][13] and many consider it to be the best Simpsons game to date.[38][39][40] Praise focused on the move from the Simpsons television series to the video game format, while criticism targeted some aspects of gameplay. Hit & Run won the award for Fave Video Game at the 2004 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.[41] Over one million copies of the game were sold as of June 2004,[42] and three million as of July 2007.[43] The game's PlayStation 2 version received a "Diamond" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA),[44] indicating sales of at least 1 million copies in the United Kingdom.[45]