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Family Guy Video Game in the Works
antifoidulus writes "According to Businesswire there is a Family Guy video game in the works, set to hit the street sometime next year. The game is being developed by Take-Two Interactive. The press releases contains only a few scant details, but the game will be a 3rd person action game that puts you in control of various members of the once cancelled animated family." From the article: "The massive licensing and merchandising program on tap will coincide with the new series launch for Family Guy on May 1st, and is expected to be one of the company's largest product blitzes to date."
Good luck and please make it so that it doesn't suck like the Simpson's video games have!
Ok, who told the Studio execs that there's other ways to make money than just produce a cartoon show?
Guess it was downhill from the first DVD, see how long it takes for the Stewey branded Diapers.
Waiting for an amusing sig.
I'm leaning towards lame myself. The Simpsons has a very rich background with tons of locations and characters that the Hit and Run game could draw on to make a neat 3rd person game.
Family Guy doesn't really have all that much to draw on. I'm thinking it's gonna be more "a 3rd person game with Family Guy characters" rather than a "Family Guy game".
Never know though. Hit and Run was a good game but the ones before it weren't exactly stellar.
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...slowly falling...
This kind of thing (animated series) doesn't need a video game, because it's GREAT the way it is. A video game, which who knows how seriously it will be taken (its production, not its content), is just cheapening the brand for true fans, ESPECIALLY if the game sucks.
And no, if it's good I won't take back my complaining. I just won't tell anyone I like it.
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After four seasons they were already heavily recycling jokes. I love futurama but I don't think it really has any mileage left. Be happy with the DVDs.
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The game might have the same characters, but I don't expect the game to have the same humour of the show.
I find Stewie and Brian to be the funniest characters anyway.
Maybe the voices will be more believable than in Simspsons: Hit and Run.
Umm, Simpsons: Hit and Run did use the original voice cast. All the people speaking in the game are the actual actors.
Only complaint I had about Hit and Run was that it was too short and the levels are too small.
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
correction: the TWICE cancelled animated family
If you want politically incorrect for the sake of being politically incorrect, without being funny, watch an episode of Drawn Together. Absolutely awful, and not funny at all.
Family Guy may not be PC, but it IS funny. The kind of biting humor that doesn't usually make it to network TV.
... movies based on video games, or video games based on movies (or a TV series)?
I caught the Mountain Wumpus! He gave me his treasure chest ($100) to let him go free again.
I actually gave the show a miss for the first half of season 1 because I got the impression of forced shock value and pandering from the marketing. Then I happened to catch an episode and discovered that despite the advertising focus it was very funny. The show was all about absurdity, pop culture, and nostalgia - with the shock value actually playing a decreasing role as the show went on.
[Set Cain on fire and steal his lute.]