Family Guy

We admit it: when we first heard about plans for a Family Guy game, we cringed. And when we heard that it would be developed by High Voltage, creator of the craptacular Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, our testicles retracted into our bodies so fast that the impact collapsed our lungs. Don't get us wrong - we like Family Guy, but games like this tend to be horrible. Now that we've played it, however, it looks like our fears were unfounded. Not only is Family Guy shaping up to be a good time, ...

If you think Family Guy is a peculiar cartoon, wait until you see what the Griffin family get up to in the game. Baby Stewie's battling his half-brother Bertram (see the episode when Stewie goes inside Peter's body Inner Space-style) as both try to take over the world. Meanwhile, Brian the dog's been wrongly imprisoned for impregnating Mr. Pewterschmidt's greyhound Seabreeze and Peter thinks he's starring in a videogame after taking a bang on the head from a satellite dish. Oh, the ...

"Though it gets the show's style of humor down pat, Family Guy is derailed by frustrating and uninteresting gameplay."

"Family Guy tries to do a whole lot of things, what with three different genres packed into one game, but none of them work well at all. It's repetitive, boring and even frustrating way more often than it should be. Die-hard fans of the show may find a small bit of humor here, so it might be worth renting for an hour or two if you're really bored, but certainly don't waste your money on the full purchase price."