Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse Review

Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse doesn’t suck. That might shock you, it might be hard to believe, but I swear it to be true. Sure, there are licensed game disasters such as Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime to make you question any game with a property attached to it, but there are also licensed game success stories such as Batman: Arkham Asylum. Back to the Multiverse isn’t Arkham, but it definitely isn’t Ghostbusters. This Family Guy spinoff falls somewhere in the middle of the spectrum.

A sequel to Family Guy Season 8’s “Road to the Multiverse” episode, Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse casts us as Brian and Stewie in a third-person shooter. If you’re playing by yourself, you can switch characters at any time, but if you have a friend, the game supports local drop-in/drop-out co-op. Bertram, Stewie’s half-brother, is building an army from the multiverse to destroy Stewie’s dimension, so our dynamic duo needs to leap from universe to universe (each with a crazy theme such as pirates or chickens) foiling the plot.