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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."
the object of the game will be to end the life of the wife, with the knife!
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.
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Family Guy Tennis
Family Guy Go-Kart Racing
Family Guy - Stewies Quest for World Domination RPG
and
Family Guy: Apocalypse, using the super uber cool Half-Life 2 engine.
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I'll stick to drawing boobs on the etch-a-sketch...
This game is freakin' sweeeet!
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Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Okay, the answer is obviously "to make money", but it's still sad. Shows rarely seem quite the same after all the movies, video games, etc based on them come out.
Nothing bugs me quite like a video game based on a tvshow/movie that uses the same characters but different voices.
"The talented voice cast includes: Seth MacFarlane (as Peter Griffin, Brian Griffin, Stewie Griffin and more), Alex Borstein (as Lois Griffin), Seth Green (as Chris Griffin), and Mila Kunis (as Meg Griffin)."
According to that statement it appears they will use the regular people for the voices! Excellent.
Maybe the voices will be more believable than in Simspsons: Hit and Run. Heck, maybe it'll be a better game overall... but I doubt it. Games made after TV/Movies are usually fun for a while, but not for extended amounts of time (for me, anyway).
Maybe, but somehow Uwe Boll would get the rights to it.
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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 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.
Product blitzes! Mechandising programs! That sounds like an AWESOME game.
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If they don't do the "Remember that time when..." scenes, it's not family guy. :)
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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.
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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.
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Another game which is tied to a marketting schedule and not a development schedule. I'm sure it will be a rising success like the Matrix game and the recent Lord of the Rings game.
Congratulations, Take-Two Interactive, the last horse finally crosses the finish line.
correction: the TWICE cancelled animated family
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Why do the chins on all the male characters look like a pair of testicles?
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Also, it's not hard to come up with comical juxtapositions of particular cultural icons. Observe:
Peter: "Hey, i-it's like that time that the Beav witnessed that mob hit!" [cut to black-and-white scene of child looking in horror as gunshots are fired, perhaps injecting a bit of Road to Perdition by having Ward as one of the mobsters]
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If this is anything like the Simpsons games, it's going to be friggin' awesome! Anyone who can take a comedy show that pokes fun at family and culture and turn it into a game where the characters run around bashing things is getting my hard-earned dough.
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How come no Kent Brockman on the radio whilst driving? Not to be the pedantic Simpsons fan, but Brockman is on TV. KBBL would've been good though...
Yeah but IMHO the cell shaded 3D scenes esp. the space fights and such were really worth it. I thought the animation was some of the best I had seen on TV. I like the one when Bender is floating through space with a civilation growing on his stomach. I love Family Guy, but I miss Futurama almost as much I wish they would create a super cartoon block (Simpsons 8, Futurmama 8:30, Family Guy 9, and then get rid of malcom and put arreted development at 9:30) best sunday night ever.
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I bought one game from Take Two - Lemmings. It didn't work. After hours talking to support, they realized it was because I had a wheel-mouse. They said wheel-mice weren't popular in their offices, so they never tested them. After an exhausing Alta-Vista (pre-Google) search, I found that the game failed to work with many PS2 input devices and would also crash if a USB device was plugged into the computer. Since they refused to give a refund for an unplayable game (remember, in-store policy is if it is opened it can only be exchanged for THE SAME game), I won't buy anything from Take Two again.
The previous comment is purposely vague and generalized, but all of the facts are completely true.
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican party. An elephant and a bit fat white guy who's afraid of change."
Yes, very conservative... But the show doesn't pander. I think you're reading a bit too much into it. They pretty much insult everybody.
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... movies based on video games, or video games based on movies (or a TV series)?
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Boss Battle: Peter versus Giant Chicken.
That'll teach that chicken not to hand out bad coupons!
Chris: Where do you think you go when you die?
Sam: I learned from church that if you're good you go to heaven but if you're bad, you go to a place where the dead believe they're still living and they pray for death but death won't come.
Chris: UPN?
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.
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