Family Guy Video Game?!!

[Tidus5]

I ran across this in another forum. Wanted to know what everyone thinks about this. Discuss!


GTA: Quahog? Family Guy gets game deal

"It seems today that all you see is violence in movies and sex on TV." The first line of Family Guy's theme left one thing out--Family Guy on a video game system. Take-Two Interactive and Airborne Entertainment have attained the rights to publish games based on the animated dysfunctional family.


Under the arrangement, Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two can produce Family Guy games for multiple platforms. Take-Two is currently developing a third-person action game based on the show and will publish it under its newly formed 2K Games brand. The game is expected to get into gamers' hands in 2006. No specific platforms have been announced.

[kikimm]

Uh.....where did you get this? Or, where did that forum get this? :bigsmile:


:D

[Shlup]

Not surprising. They make games for everything that's even remotely successful.

I just hope it's good.

[Hawkeye]

I just hope it's good.

[Tidus5]

Here is the link to the site.

http://sims2place.5.forumer.com/a/family-guy-video-game33_post318.html

[Winter Nights]

Why is this in general chat? And..

I just hope it's good.

EDIT: Why is there no link to an ACTUAL news site? A forum quote doesn't come off as plausible.

[kikimm]

Oh, dear.....I think I'll put my money somewhere else, thank you very much. =D


:D

[Tidus5]

Why is this in general chat? And..

I just hope it's good.

EDIT: Why is there no link to an ACTUAL news site? A forum quote doesn't come off as plausible.

I didnt say this was 100% true, I was just throwing it out there to see what everyone else thought. I think it seems a little far fetched myself.

[Shoeberto]

I think I remember reading about this in EGM a few months ago. It might've just been a rumor.

[eestlinc]

clearly it will be just as exciting as the tv show

[crashNUMBERS]

Holy sh**!! WTF!! Where!!!??!?

[Shoeberto]

clearly it will be just as exciting as the tv show
The cutaways would be kind of like Eternal Darkeness' sanity effects, except they'd be dissapointingly predictable and lame compared to the promising premise given in the game.

[Winter Nights]

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3138213&did=1

It's valid.

[Buschmaster]

Can't say I'm suprised... but still...

[Tidus5]

Here, I found more links from an actual respected gaming site. It appears as though they are planning on releasing games on Playstation 2, XBOX, and GBA. I hope this gets everyone off my back for posting a link to a forum. Jeez.

http://ps2.ign.com/objects/728/728066.html

They are also going to make a UMD for PSP called the Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story. The link is here:

http://psp.ign.com/objects/758/758120.html

[eestlinc]

sounds groundbreaking

[Erdrick Holmes]

NOOOOOO!

How can they combine something so cool with something so LAME!!

[eestlinc]

quite easily.

[Winter Nights]

Note that the PSP item is not a game.. Whatever game they come up with is for PS2.

[Eternal Sphere]

Looks like they will taint another name with a substandard game. :(

[GooeyToast]

Just hope it doesnt turn out as lame as most of the Simpsons' series.


~Keep it gooey~

[PhoenixAsh]

Hang on, can we wait before passing judgement a little? Sure they might mess it up, as has been done with The Simpsons, but they also might not. I never played it, and this isn't my whole arguement so if I'm wrong ignore me, but I remember hearing good things about the Futurama game.

I don't really see how the game will work because a lot of the best bits in Family Guy involve scenes which are thrown into the main story quickly, and then basically ignored for the rest of the show (flashbacks and The Passion 2 etc.). Capturing that would either mean PHENOMENALLY fast switches between play and cut scenes so as to avoid broken gameplay, or using whole missions (ie. the chicken fights).

Still, playing as Brian or Stewie might be fun, I don't think it would be good having the other characters playable (unless its for mini-games), as their characters are either too weak, or they are meant to act illogically, which would either have to be ignored, or become frustrating to the player.

[SilverWind]

Ehh...as a Family Guy fan I'd say a game would be great and all, but then again, Family guy, and GTA definitely don't mix...<_<

[Erdrick Holmes]

You don't mix ANYTHING with GTA. It's about as bad as mixing wet hands with an electrical outlet.

[PhoenixAsh]

I don't know, Spider-Man 2 wasn't too lacking in the GTAness, that kicked ass.

For the record I've just stopped a VERY LONG session on San Andreas, man that game kicks all kinds of things.

[Excelsior]

not only is it probably lame, but i wont buy it just on general principle. i seriously dont understand why people by games based on movies/tv shows/etc...

[Cz]

Oh dear.

[linksfantasy]

i hope they do that would be awsome