- Publisher: Activision
- Release Date: Nov 20, 2012
- Also On: PC, PlayStation 3
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Dec 21, 201245When Multiverse is at its best, you'll enjoy its clever quips and competent shooting. Unfortunately, these highlights are all too rare.
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Dec 4, 201245Half of Back to the Multiverse is done exceptionally well. The other half is the polar opposite. The gameplay could fuel any generic shooter, and doesn't feel like it belongs with this property. Stewie and Brian deliver some good laughs that fans of the show will want to see, but working through gameplay this bad isn't worth the effort to others.
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Dec 16, 201240Only for fans of the TV series, and we're not even sure if they'll be able to like this poor game.
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Dec 6, 201240It successfully adopts the humor of the TV show and the original voices give it some extra authenticity, but at the end of the day, Back to the Multiverse is just another bad third person shooter.
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Dec 4, 201240Macfarlane is a man of many talents. Understanding what makes a videogame great is not one of them, unfortunately.
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Dec 3, 201240While licensed games seem to grow in popularity and quality, there are still titles that didn't even try to improve themselves. Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse is one of these games. Despite the fact that the game uses the fame of the cartoon series, it is just a collage of levels, most of which are just colorless copies of the situations we used to see in the TV series. Too bad for the Griffin family, they deserved a better game than this one.
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Nov 24, 201240None of the key features really hold up compared to other shooters, save for the appearance of Seth McFarlane and his crew of writers and actors. Even then, this would have made for a weakly written episode of the show. If it were down to a night with your buddies in front of the TV with a few drinks, then it would make for an alright rental.
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Nov 28, 201238The game isn't funny, and that's inexcusable.
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Nov 28, 201235Back to the Multiverse is complete nonsense. Small-minded and archaic shooting gameplay with little comedy and a boring story.
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Nov 27, 201235Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse is by far the worst game I've played this year, and I've played Kinect Star Wars! It's a title that's utterly marred by its own identity crisis, with gameplay more suited for kids but with subject matter aimed at adults, and too many recycled jokes to warrant a purchase for diehard Family Guy fans.
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Jan 19, 201330Appalling levels, terrible writing, repetitive gags and weak shooting mechanics make for one of the least enjoyable experiences of 2012. Be smart and avoid at all costs. [Issue#93, p.82]
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Jan 10, 201330Not good. Not funny. Which is a sin for a Family Guy game.
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Jan 2, 201330A functional, ordinary third-person shooter hobbled by simplistic AI and vulgar gags.
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Nov 28, 201230Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse is terrible, a bad idea that is malformed. Brian and Stewie deserve a better game. Not this unplayable, short and ugly TPS.
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Dec 4, 201220If you're the sort of person who doesn't inherently find the concepts of greased-up deaf people, Amish people commenting on their sex lives, older women grotesquely demanding group sex from frat boys, people in wheelchairs falling over, or "the gays" completely hilarious, do not get angry at Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse.
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Nov 29, 201220There is surely scope to make a decent Family Guy game - just imagine an adventure or puzzle title littered with acerbic humor and smart observations. But as a shooter, Back to the Multiverse is a hopelessly moronic, completely pointless experience that will please neither Family Guy fans nor people who enjoy games. In this case, the joke is most definitely on us.
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Nov 27, 201220A return to the very worst standards of video game tie-ins, with terrible gameplay and an equally incompetent attempt to mimic the show's humour.
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Nov 20, 201220Crude, archaic, sloppy, and unfunny, but I don't want the show to be blamed for any of it -- not because I wish to defend Family Guy, but because by blaming the show, we let this game get away with being the invidious dross it is.