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."

...Why?

[Pantero Blanco]

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.

Re:FCC?

[t_allardyce]

About a year ago if i had said the FCC would be censoring cartoon butts you would have laughed and said "the FCC doesn't do that", next year the FCC will regulating video games and the year after that they will be regulating what you say in public..

Re:Ugh

[UWC]

Objection! Family Guy took a few comedic elements that the Simpsons used in some of the middle seasons, and the show is pretty much a hasty framework on which to hang predictable cutaway gags, random and consistent placement of widely remembered pop culture bits in unlikely positions, and hit-and-miss attempts at real humor. An episode here and there is amusing, but when one watches it consistently, the reuse of maybe three humor devices becomes predictable, and one begins to see the hastily assembled show underneath. Despite that, I still watch it on occasion and enjoy some of the humor. And the more general riffs on some broad cultural feature can be amusing. One of my favorite bits in the show is the Brian and Stewie-hosted introduction to the Treehouse of Horror/Anthology of Interest-style episode in the (until recently) final season, as it's not (to me, at least) obviously pulling from any single source, but is definitely using some vaudevillean standard base.

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]

Re:try this theory for size...

[nofx_3]

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.

-kaplanfx

Re:Am I the only one...

[Atzanteol]

"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.

Re:Good luck!

[poot_rootbeer]

I'm a fan of the classic Simpsons arcade game! You know, the one with up to 4 players that wasted an incredible amount of quarters?

That was the one that was licensed by Konami, and was basically the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game with new graphics. And it was killer.

Unfortunately all the other Simpsons games of the era were licensed by Ack! Lame! (say it out loud), and sucked eggs on toast. (As did most games from that publisher, and most console games written by people with American names during that era.)

I was once jealous that a friend of mine had played all the way through to the end of the NES game "Bart vs. the Space Mutants" and I had never gotten past level three. Now, I just feel sorry for him.

Re:Good luck!

[randallschleufer]

PLEASE for Gods sake, don't make this game 3D. I know it will be 3D, and the BEST we can hope for will be cell-shading.

That alone is just a shame. Nothing destroys the look of a 2D character like trying to force them into a 3D world. 2D characters have their own unwritten physics, whereas 3D is to stiff.

Look at the old cartoons, where they used a lot of squash and stretch for motion (2D). We don't see that anymore, because of this 3D crap- someone needs to write a solid squash and stretch 3D engine.