Paramount Multiverses

Paramount Multiverses is an action-adventure video game developed by THQ Nordic and published by Paramount Digital Entertainment for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. It follows the toys-to-life format similar to Skylanders, Disney Infinity, and Lego Dimensions. Besides franchises from Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies, the game includes other ViacomCBS franchises from CBS Entertainment (Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life) and Miramax (Spy Kids and The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl).
== Gameplay ==
Two players can play as and control characters by placing them on the USB game pad and possess unique abilities. Characters come with either a vehicle or weapon depending on which pack the player collects.
The game has an open-world feature where the player can travel to any hub world in the game. The game includes Star Trek, Sherlock Gnomes, Betty Boop, Indiana Jones, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Barnyard, Rango, Wonder Park, Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life, Spy Kids, and The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl as the featured franchises and films.
There are certain tasks in the hub worlds that will need to be solved by using a character or a character's ability: such as a weight switch for characters such as Boomer, Greta, and Otis; small hatches for characters like Pip, June Bailey, Jimmy Neutron, Sheen Eztevez, and Bimbo; intelligence access computers for characters like Spock, Jimmy, and Watson; whip hooks for Indiana Jones, Watson and Rango; and footprint tracking for Sherlock Gnomes.
A racing mini-game, entitled "Multiversal Race-Off", is where you can play as any character in your collection and race around either London from Sherlock Gnomes, Wonderland from Wonder Park, the barn from Barnyard, and Planet Drool from Sharkboy and Lavagirl.
== Playable characters ==
=== Series 1 ===
Franchise 	Characters	Release
Sherlock Gnomes 	
* Sherlock Gnomes1
* Watson3	March 5, 2024
Rango 	
* Rango1
* Rattlesnake Jake3
* Beans3	March 5, 2024
Barnyard 	
* Otis1
* Pip3	March 5, 2024
Wonder Park 	
* June Bailey2
* Boomer3
* Peanut2
* Greta3	May 14, 2024
Star Trek 	
* Captain Kirk2
* Spock3	July 16, 2024
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius	
* Jimmy Neutron2
* Carl Wheezer4
* Sheen Eztevez4	September 17, 2024
Indiana Jones 	
* Indiana Jones2	May 14, 2024
Betty Boop 	
* Betty Boop3
* Bimbo4
* Koko the Clown4	September 17, 2024
=== Series 2 ===
Franchise 	Characters	Release
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life	
* Rafe Khatchadorian2	January 2, 2025
Spy Kids 	
* Carmen Cortez2
* Juni Cortez3	January 2, 2025
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 	
* Sharkboy2
* Lavagirl2	March 11, 2025
# Featured in the starter pack.
# Featured in an adventure pack.
# Featured in a character pack.
# Featured in a duo pack.
== Voice cast ==
The game features a majority of cast members from the franchises or selected voices for the unavailable actors and actresses.
* For Wonder Park, Brianna Denski, Ken Hudson Campbell, John Oliver, and Ken Jeong reprising their roles from the film while Rachael MacFarlane, Christopher Corey Smith, and Christopher James Williams as respectively Greta, Peanut, and Gus.
* Barnyard has Chris Hardwick reprising his role as Otis from the film's series Back at the Barnyard, while Neil Flynn voices Pig in place of the late Tino Insana who died in 2017. Jeff Garcia, Rob Paulsen, Cam Clarke, and Wanda Sykes return in this game.
* Sherlock Gnomes' characters has James Patrick Stuart as the titular character, Roger L. Jackson as Watson, Eric Bauza as Moriarty, and Sanaa Lathan as Irene, with Danny Pudi as the Red Goon Gnomes in place of the late Kelly Asbury.
* Betty Boop's voice cast consists of Carolyn Lawrence as Betty, Maurice LaMarche as Bimbo, Dan Castellaneta as Grampy, and Patrick Stump as the Old Man of the Mountain, while audio recordings of Mae Questal as Pudgy are used.
* Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius has Debi Derryberry, Rob Paulsen, Jeff Garcia, Carolyn Lawrence, Crystal Scales, Frank Welker, Megan Cavanagh and Mark DeCarlo, and Candi Milo all reprise their roles from the franchise; marking it as the only franchise with all its cast members.
* With the Indiana Jones characters, Indiana Jones is voiced by Keith Ferguson; Marion Ravenwood is voiced by Catherine Taber; Sallah is reprised by John Rhys-Davies; Marcus Brody is voiced by Hank Azaria; and Henry Jones is voiced by Tom Kane.
* Rango's character cast has Jared Butler as the eponymous character, Teresa Reilly as Beans, and Tara Strong as Priscilla; all three cast members previously voiced these characters from the video game. The only cast members that reprise their roles from the film are Stephen Root as Doc and Blake Clark as Buford.
* Star Trek's characters' voices have Frank Welker as Captain Kirk, Ed O'Ross as Spock, Roger Craig Smith as Scotty, and Cree Summer as Nyota Uhura. George Takei reprises his role as Hikaru Sulu in this game.
*The cast for Middle School consists of Zach Callison as Rafe Khatchadorian, Ashly Burch as Jules Khatchadorian, and Roz Ryan as Ida Stricker. The other cast members that reprise their roles are as Thomas Barbusca as Leo, Isabela Moner as Jeanne Galletta, Andy Daly as Principal Dwight, Adam Pally as Mr. Teller, Alexa Nisenson as Georgia Khatchadorian, and Jacob Hopkins as Miller.
*Spy Kids' characters are voiced by Tex Hammond as Juni Cortez, Christian Lanz as Gregorio Cortez, Mira Sorvino as Ingrid Cortez, and Martin Short as Fegan Floop. The franchise's cast members that reprise their roles are Alexa Vega as Carmen Cortez, Danny Trejo as Isador Cortez, Cheech Marin as Felix Gumm, Mike Judge as Donnagon Giggles, and Tony Shalhoub as Alexander Minion.
*The voice cast for Sharkboy and Lavagirl consists of Steele Stebbins as Sharkboy, Rowan Blanchard as Lavagirl and the Ice Princess while George Lopez reprises his role as Tobor and the Ice Guardian.
Category:2024 video games
Category:Action-adventure games
Category:Back at the Barnyard
Category:Betty Boop
Category:Crossover video games
Category:Indiana Jones
Category:Jimmy Neutron
Category:Nintendo Switch games
Category:Open world video games
Category:Paramount Digital Entertainment games
Category:PlayStation 4 games
Category:PlayStation 5 games
Category:Sherlock Gnomes
Category:Spy Kids
Category:Star Trek
Category:THQ Nordic games
Category:Toys-to-life video games
Category:Video games developed in the United States
Category:Video games featuring anthropomorphic characters
Category:Video games featuring female protagonists
Category:Video games featuring parallel universes
Category:Xbox One games
Category:Xbox Series X and Series S games
Category:SmashupMashups's Ideas