It’s essentially an over-the-shoulder-type shooter where you can’t really hit anything by firing from the hip. It’s not even very good at being a third-person shooter. I don’t honestly think that the shooter fan base and the Family Guy fan base have a lot of overlap, and even if they do, I wouldn’t expect they would take time out from their busy Gears of War 3, Halo 4, and Black Ops II schedule to play a game based on Family Guy. The game is a shooter, which is one of the most bizarre choices for a Family Guy adaptation. Of course, this is a video game, so good gameplay could potentially save a bland, humorless, entirely referential story. I get the feeling that this is why so many people don’t like Family Guy in the first place. In fact, most of the game’s plot is really nothing more than a ball of references to older Family guy episodes. However, in Back to the Multiverse, all of universes that Brian and Stewie visit are essentially themes after old Family Guy jokes. In the original “Road to the Multiverse” episode, Stewie and Brian visited a variety of themed universes, such as the Disney universe, which included an amazing musical number “It’s a Wonderful Day for Pie,” and the Robot Chicken universe, which existed solely as a way to poke fun at Seth Green. Frankly, if I wanted to see these jokes again without any clever spin put on them, I’d just watch the episode they came from. It’s not re-inventing old Family Guy jokes or referencing them in an interesting way it’s just doing them all over again. It’s not giving us anything we haven’t seen before. This is the biggest problem with the game.
Granted, the game markets itself as a sort of unofficial sequel to that episode, but even so, it still feels more like a retread than a sequel. It’s essentially the Season 8 episode “Road to the Multiverse” all over again, with Bertram thrown into the mix in order to add tension. It’s up to Brian and Stewie to use the Multiverse Remote in order to chase Bertram and put a stop to his evil scheme before their home universe is lost forever.ĭoes this plot sound familiar to you? If you are a Family Guy fan, it should. Stewie’s evil(er) half-brother Bertram is hopping between different universes in order to raise an army to destroy Stewie’s home universe. The game’s story takes the form of a Stewie and Brian episode of the show.
Yet, regardless of the fact that it has the show’s actual voice cast, regardless of the fact that the its cel-shaded graphics make it look exactly like a Family Guy episode, regardless of the fact that Seth MacFarlane himself had a hand in developing it, Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse somehow manages to screw it all up. I love the cutaways, references, surreal humor, and yes, even the chicken fights. You see, I actually still enjoy Family Guy. There is only one thing I want from a Family Guy video game: I want it to be funny.
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