Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse

Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse is a simple shoot 'em up game based on the animated series, the first in nearly six years. Just like the show, it has crass jokes, reused lines from the show, local multiplayer and a story mode featuring the dynamic duo of a baby and a talking dog. It uses the same engine as Heavy Iron's previous seventh generation games.

The game was met with a poor critical reception and was removed from the digital storefronts just two years after release due to development issues. Oh, well. At least they got to bring Adam West to E3.

To do: Document the game's troubled development. It started out as a third-person zombie shooter called Family Guy: Road to Death, but was reworked due to Seth MacFarlane's disapproval. Unused zombie sound leftovers from the Road to Death era.

Unused Audio#

Test Audio#

There's a snippet from the Season 7 episode "Road to Germany" near the beginning of the DIALs_00.fsb archive in the Media\En_US folder.

There's also a snippet from the Season 8 episode "Road to the Multiverse" in the end of the DIALs_00.fsb archive, albeit a bit compressed.

Placeholder Intro Audio#

This is an early version of the opening scene, with placeholder audio recorded by the developers before Seth MacFarlane and Wallace Shawn recorded these lines for their characters. Found in the DIALs_00.fsb archive in the Media\En_US folder.

Placeholder Bruce Audio#

Has Final variant

Unique

DIA_AMXX_s1_BRUCE_05
DIA_AMXX_s4_BRUCE_05
DIA_BPXX_s1_BRUCE_02
DIA_BPXX_s1_BRUCE_04
DIA_BPXX_s1_BRUCE_05
DIA_BPXX_s1_BRUCE_08
DIA_BPXX_s1_BRUCE_13
DIA_BPXX_s1_BRUCE_15
DIA_BPXX_s1_BRUCE_16
DIA_BPXX_s1_BRUCE_19
DIA_BPXX_s1_BRUCE_20
DIA_BPXX_s1_BRUCE_21
DIA_BPXX_s1_BRUCE_22
DIA_MCXX_s1_BRUCE_06
DIA_PIXX_s1_BRUCE_01
DIA_PIXX_s1_BRUCE_02
DIA_PIXX_s1_BRUCE_03
DIA_PIXX_s1_BRUCE_04
DIA_PIXX_s1_BRUCE_05
DIA_PIXX_s1_BRUCE_06
DIA_PIXX_s1_BRUCE_07
DIA_PIXX_s1_BRUCE_08
DIA_PIXX_s2_BRUCE_01
DIA_PIXX_s2_BRUCE_02
DIA_PIXX_s3_BRUCE_01
DIA_PIXX_s3_BRUCE_02
DIA_PIXX_s3_BRUCE_03
DIA_PIXX_s3_BRUCE_04
DIA_PIXX_s3_BRUCE_05
DIA_SSXX_s7_BRUCE_03
DIA_SSXX_s7_BRUCE_04
DIA_TFXX_s1_BRUCE_05
DIA_TFXX_s1_BRUCE_09
DIA_TFXX_s1_BRUCE_10
DIA_TFXX_s1_BRUCE_11
DIA_TFXX_s1_BRUCE_13
DIA_TFXX_s1_BRUCE_14
DIA_TFXX_s1_BRUCE_15
DIA_TFXX_s2_BRUCE_06
DIA_TFXX_s3_BRUCE_05
DIA_TFXX_s3_BRUCE_06
DIA_TFXX_s3_BRUCE_07
DIA_TFXX_s3_BRUCE_08
DIA_TFXX_s3_BRUCE_09

Similarly, in the DIALs_01.fsb archive there are a multitude of unfiltered unused lines for Bruce, using placeholder audio by the developers. Other than DIA_AMXX_s4_BRUCE_05, these lines were not redone by Bruce's voice actor, Mike Henry, and Bruce was replaced with Seamus in the final version of the pirate level. Notably, most of these are for the pirate level (PTXX).