Family Guy: Road To Death (partially found prototype build of third-person shooter based on Fox animated sitcom; 2010-2011)

Official Prototype Logo.

Status: Partially Found

Family Guy is an animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, produced since 1999 and cancelled in 2003, then being brought back on air in 2005. The popularity of Family Guy made the show have a lot of merch and even videogames, like "Family Guy VideoGame!" and "Family Guy Back To The Multiverse".

Family Guy Back To The Multiverse is a multiplayer shooter based on the show that turns around on Stewie and Brian traveling to the multiverse. This game was available on Xbox 360 and PS3 (Also, ports for the 3ds and Wii were being made, but got cancelled.)

Originally this game was totally different in story, going under the title "Family Guy: Road To Death"

Production and development

Heavy Iron Studios was contracted by FOX to produce a game based on Family Guy who wanted to be about zombies, Initially there were dealing with FOX. There's not to much information about the story, but it originally involved zombies and thanks to a trailer, maybe the story was about the Griffin family and their friends trying to get Death to make all the unliving people back to the death. The game was being made around the years 2010-2011 and the programmers spent 6 months producing this game. They put together a prototype of this game, which included story/sandbox, multiplayer, deathmatch and many more modes. The Producer (who gave some more information about the game) doesn't own a prototype of the game, but the person who upload the trailers of the game said that in National Videogame Museum in Texas has one of the prototype builds. It was mentioned by that producer that the game had two iterations of development, and he confirm that the one we see on the only two trailers we have in youtube were part of the second iteration of development. (We can say that the first one is actually Lost) The producers of the game ask FOX and Activision to have Fuzzy Door (Seth Macfarlane's production company) provide writers from the show and then they meet Seth in person, who got actually surprised by the game, but not in a good way. He literally thought this game was to dark and violent for having blood everywhere and talking about zombies, and thanks to that he only hired two writers from the show to do the game and ended up re creating the game's story and turning the game into "Family Guy: Back To The Multiverse". Technically, Seth made the entire producers work on the game for other six months again just because he didn't like the idea of Family Guy having too much blood, violence and a dark story about zombies. In words of the producer, it was to hardcore to make the first two iterations of the game and then ending up re-making the game once again with another story.

After a lot of work, Family Guy Back To The Multiverse was finally released in 2012 for the Xbox 360 and PS3.

Availability

There is not too much of information and stuff about the prototype game available. But actually, it is possible that in the final game, some old files from the game's prototype version still in the games database, which was confirm by a person who ripped sounds from the game and found the zombie's sound files (I have to mention that Family Guy Back To The Multiverse doesn't have zombies, the zombies were only in the Road to Death version)

Testimony from a YouTube User that confirms that the final game contains sound files from the original prototype.

Only two videos on YouTube showing gameplay of the prototype are available (one is the prototype video and the other is the official trailer of the game)

Prototype footage.

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The user who uploaded the two Family Guy Road To Death Prototype gameplays confirms that the National Videogame Museum in Texas has one of the prototype builds. (Is unknown that if this is real information or not, today there is not any proves of that)