Grab your joystick and get ready to unleash your inner Peter!
Family Guy Video Game! is a, well, video game about Family Guy with much Continuity Porn, released in 2006 for the PlayStation 2, the Xbox and the PlayStation Portable. The game was developed by High Voltage Software and published by 2K Games. It has three playable characters, each with their own playstyle and story:
- Stewie's story is about him trying to defeat Bertram, his Arch-Enemy from "Emission Impossible". His gameplay is based around a third-person shooter.
- Brian's story sees him falsely accused of impregnating Carter's greyhound Seabreeze (just like what happened in "Screwed The Pooch"). His gameplay is based around stealth.
- Peter's story is about finding Mr. Belvedere, whom Peter believes has kidnapped his family after a blow to the head from his PTV (from the episode of the same name). His gameplay is based around a Streets of Rage-esque beat-em-up.
Tropes:
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: After defeating him in the first phase, Bertram grows to an enormous size for the rest of the fight.
- Bolt of Divine Retribution: It's possible to punch God during one of Peter's levels. He'll retaliate by killing you with a lightning bolt.
- Clear My Name: Brian has to prove that he was not the one who knocked up Seabreeze by sneaking out of jail and gathering evidence.
- Continuity Porn: Tons of it everywhere. The number of episodes from the first four seasons that aren't referenced in some way can probably be counted on one hand.
- Brian disguises himself as a lamp at one point, much like Peter did in the pilot.
- Cheesy Charlie's from "Chitty Chitty Death Bang" appears as a level, complete with the evil version of it that Peter made up.
- The PTV satellite from the episode of the same name falls on Peter early on.
- Stewie's plot is based on "Emission Impossible".
- Brian's plot is based on "Screwed the Pooch".
- Stewie and Bertram have their final battle on the playground, just like they did in "Sibling Rivalry".
- The Final Boss is a fight with the Giant Chicken from "Da Boom" and "Blind Ambition".
- Stewie mind-controls Lois into chasing Brian with a vacuum cleaner, just like she did in "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein".
- Some of Peter's costumes throughout the course of his plot include Rufus Griffin from "If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'", the hooker outfit from "Mr. Saturday Knight" and A.N.N.A. from "The King is Dead".
- Geronimo's Palace from "The Son Also Draws" makes a return in two of Peter's levels.
- Some of the cutaway gags include:
- Stewie trying and failing to bid on a death ray from "The Story on Page One".
- Peter forgetting how to sit down from "North by North Quahog".
- Brian asking someone to try his "smoked meat log" (which gets him punched) from "Brian Wallows and Peter Swallows".
- The fire truck stalking its prey from "Petarded".
- Cutaway Gag: Naturally. Since it's a video game, they're all interactive, and winning them nets you bonuses - Stewie's grant more parts for ray gun upgrades, Brian's grant temporary invisibility, and Peter's grant extra snack meter power.
- "Fantastic Voyage" Plot: A good chunk of Stewie's plot involves him shrinking himself and going into Peter's body to defeat Bertram, much like in "Emission Impossible".
- Final Boss: The Giant Chicken, whom Peter fights in a similar vein to the other times they fought.
- Flipping the Bird: After the final battle with Bertram, the resulting cutscene has Betram flip Stewie off after calling for one of his mothers to take him home.
- Non-Standard Game Over: The Game Over message usually reads "You died!" (for Peter and Stewie) or "You've been caught!" for Brian. However, one level requires you to rescue a guy from a sawmill as Brian, and letting him die nets the Game Over message "You have failed!" instead.
- Running Gag: Throughout the course of Peter's plot, he gets hit in the head with various objects, usually transforming him into different identities.
- Video Game Perversity Potential: Parodied in one cutscene where Brian reads a code in a video game magazine involving a supposed hidden sex scene. Pressing any input in attempt to apply the code instead skips cutscenes.Brian: Huh. "Hidden pornographic scene viewable by pressing up up down down left." Huh. Horny gamers believe anything.
- Womb Level: Many of the levels during Stewie's plot involve him inside Peter's body in order to locate Bertram's lair.
