The 2000s were a weird time. When I was 11 years old, I went on a fun day in Geelong where my mum bought me this game. We later saw Epic Movie at the cinemas (lmao). Replaying this game recently made me remember I actually finished it in 2007, hence why I'm logging it.

In any case, Family Guy Video Game! is one of the most uniquely awful video games I've had the displeasure of playing. The gameplay as easy as you'd expect (I mean, this was a game marketed to fans of the show and not gamers), but the writing is painfully unfunny (which is important for a comedy themed game NOT to do--yet it's also Family Guy, who what did I expect?). I think the weirdest part of the whole game is how it feels like a children's platformer/shooter/action-adventure, borrowing elements of the Futurama game or even The Simpsons: Hit and Run, but those games are geared to a younger audience.

Was Family Guy Video Game! also trying to appeal to a younger audience despite the risque humour? I'm not sure, but it feels like a confused mess gameplay-wise. Also, it overstays its welcome with its lame humour. There's a reason I forgot that I finished it.

Es lo que esperas de un episodio normal de padre de familia pero con mecánicas, aquí tengo varios puntos:
1.-Los niveles de Brian que se vayan al demonio, que mal juego de sigilo
2.-Los niveles de Peter son un tipo beat em up y aquí hacen que un personaje op tenga dificultades ahí le doy puntos pero luego se pasaban de verga y había algunos enemigos que tenias que golpearlo como mil veces para acabar con el o a veces el enemigo te quitaba la vida en un parpadeo
3.-Los niveles de Stewie son los mas entretenido son un shooters en 3ra personaje pero cada vez que pasabas los niveles te hacías mas poderoso
4.-Esta chido el warioware que metieron aquí
Este juego es bueno si tu dios es Peter Griffin, si no eres un familyguytard tantito lo recomiendo mas por la partes finales que se pone mejor sobre todo con el jefe final

This game is just... horrible. It really is. I'm sorry, but my god is it badly designed. Some of the jokes definitely hit. Stewie sections are honestly decent. The cutaway gag minigames are good and funny. I like how each character has different gameplay. And yeah that's all I have to praise.

The platforming isn't all that good during the Stewie levels. They can be annoying. The Peter levels went from being decent and fun to being incredibly awful. The beat em up style gameplay for him is incredibly badly designed. But oh my god don't even get me started on the Brian levels. They are so awful. Even worse than the Peter levels. His stealth levels are horrible. It made me incredibly frustrated through the entire time I played as him. Especially when some of his sections made it infuriating to go through without being caught. Also them gave him a meter to have him get out of the opening to piss and do.. other stuff that I'm not gonna say. Also why is Spongebob music in this game?

Overall, I honestly gave up on this game. I don't wanna play it ever again. Fuck this game. Never gonna play it again. Outside of the Stewie levels, the gameplay is entirely frustrating. Nothing to praise. Hopefully Back to the multiverse is better but... I don't even know.

I played this a ton as a kid, and I'll admit it now. I had terrible taste.

The Stewie sections are the best ones of the bunch. The platforming can be weird since really it's only the shadowdrop that's telling you where you're landing. The shooting is basically Galaga when it comes to having to deal with waves, everything else is an inoffensive lock on system.

Brian sections are ass. The line of sight is inconsistent, so sometimes the enemies are blind and other times they've got eagle eyes. I also experienced a glitch where Brian would pop up on a table he was hiding under.

Peter sections were the worst. Sometimes his fight combos just wouldn't input proper, which really makes the game a complete nightmare when it comes to bosses, which are a simple Simon Says with broken inputs. The giant chicken and the Black Knight were god awful.

The humor is on a worse level than the show if only because a lot of their jokes are basically quoting the show, or when wanting to make a celebrity reference they just have to say "that guy who was in that thing with that other girl" to avoid litigation. And 1 "video games are hard to make you guys" jokes was enough, they didn't need to go for 2 so close to each other.

Let's just say that this game aged about as well as any Family Guy episode. Terribly. Do yourself a favor and if you're really gonna play it? Just emulate it. Do not, by any means stick around for this one.

There's a reason Family guy episodes are only 20 minutes long.

Unless you're a huge fan of the show there really isn't anything here for you. Even if you are. You're probably better off just watching the show.

Sort of feels like the kind of thing that would have ended up in a young adults bedroom just so he could say to his friends "haha family guy game".

It's not good.

Game-development has trended away from my preferred genres over time, and playing this in 2024 has inflated the relative quality of this game.

I like the genres represented here: platformers and STGs are, of relative intensity, represented in Stewie's sections, Peter gets the beat-'em-up portions, and Brian gets some straightforward stealth-gameplay. None of these are executed in particularly fleshed out or polished ways, and it's not fair to expect them to be since these 3 types of gameplay should be the sole focus of 1 individual game and not all be part of the same game. Though, the dev should be blamed for including the 3. It's an ambitious undertaking, and, even if all 3 were executed to perfection, the game shouldn't be alternating between them. They have to be this simple by necessity since they're all here. The game was doomed to fail by their simultaneous inclusion.

Stewie's sections are the best. They have the most variety and polish, and I imagine they got the most dev-time. He's got a double-jump, a glide, multiple charged shot-types, an upgrade-system, and a very deliberate sliding-mechanic. There's also a context-sensitive grapple-mechanic, but, aside from latching on for some optional collectibles, it basically just moves you to point B for free with no strategy behind it.

Peter's sections are next best. Enemies and objects are susceptible to a variation of attack-types and combos. Some enemies only take damage from punches, some only from kicks, vehicles only take damage from the head-butt combo, etc. He's got a meter that builds from item pickups, and allows use of a few special attacks. The early game spin-kick does high enough damage that it'll clear crowd-fights in 1 use, and can even take out the entire health-gauge of most boss-fights. His tackle knocks enemies over, and downed enemies can be picked up and thrown to instantly kill them and any enemy (enemies?) hit by them. The final super attack seemed to do high damage, but it's rare that you'll have the time to get it out in an actual fight due to its high-charge time. A spin-kick can usually achieve the same effect instantly.

Brian's sections are the weakest. Even as a fan of stealth-games, they're simplistic to a fault. You have an extremely limited set of options for manipulating "guard" patrols. There's a gauge that fills when they see you that leads to being caught as opposed to just instantly being seen, and you can briefly appear in their sight-line to stop them in place. I didn't personally find a use for this in my 1 run. The other option is to interact with a context-sensitive prompt that'll automatically move the guards somewhere else for you with no other input required from the player. You have a variety of disguises (cosmetic in terms of variety, not function) that just cause "guards" to ignore you, or not be able to see you when you're standing still. You have a simple crouch that allows Brian to hide behind walls or get under objects to hide. The last gimmick are objects that cause Brian to take control of the player to waste time with the added penalty of losing whatever disguise is equipped until Brian enters shadows. Shadows make Brian undetectable to all "guards". That sounds like more than it is, and there isn't a single section that puts it all to use at once.

The cutaways return in the form of minigames. They're sometimes placed at incredibly inopportune moments, like the beginning of a difficult section right after the checkpoint, but they're typically worth winning. Stewie's especially for upgrade-parts, Peter's vary in usefulness (they give meter, so it depends on if you need it or not), and Brian's give temporary invisibility (sometimes let's you skip entire sections, sometimes doesn't do much).

This game was not worth playing in 2006, but I'd take it over the majority of today's AAA releases. That opinion is based on what I grew up playing and my own sensibilities, and definitely may not apply to you. Again though, it's not good. Just good enough to finish. 2/5