Rent it, Dont buy it

The Godfather game kinda dissapointed me. I am not a "big" gammer, but am into playing enough that I know a poorly designed game when I see one! The worst thing that bothered me is that the game seemed as if it was made in a real big hurry...as if someone came into the development office at EA and said:

'hay everyone, we just got a deal from Paramount to make a game based on the Godfather...but they want it done in two weeks. So, lets take the same old first person shooter style of a game and mix in some of the movie (from the first Godfather only...kinda dissapointing too) and make a couple of building interiors that can be reused all through out the game.'

And thats the thing, the same building layouts and bad guy placements are reused over and over again. The only reason you will ever die is because sometimes the bad guys act a little bit differently than you are used to.
Oh, and the cops...dont worry about them. At first they seem impressive and harder to outrun than in Grand Theft Auto...but they're not, especially if you have lots of safe houses. Or a trick that I learned towards the end of the game: if you just stop and stay in one place and shoot it out with all the cops that are in your immediate area (do not go anywhere other than a couple of feet) just stay right there after they are all dead and wait for your wanted level to go down. No other cops will come racing to their comrads aid...though you will hear the sirens...they wont come unless you move from the immediate area.

I could probably write an endless list of things I am displeased about with this game...but I have better things to do.
It would probably be a good game to rent...but not to buy...unless you buy it used at a good price.

OH-MY-GOD!!!!!

This is the best game that EA has ever put out, in my opinion.
You get to:
1. Extort other mob families businesses.
2. Take down other families warehouses and invade they're turf.
3. Start mob wars where you use strategy and preparation to win.
4. Steal cars, whack other mobsters with unique weapons such as, a shotgun, Tommy gun, a regular pistol, a 38 snub nose pistol, a magnum pistol, bombs, dynamite and a garrote wire to sneak up on people from behind, just to name a few.
5. Blow up other families supply trucks and take the loot.
6. Rise up through the ranks with your family (The Corleones) and eventually become the Don.
All this with an awesome story line that will draw you in deeper every mission you play.

NOTE- For more experienced players the game may seem too short and easy at first. Even if you do beat the game you still have a looooong way to go before truly beating it. (You could beat all the missions but you still have to take down the rival families and extort the businesses before the credits start rolling.)

OVERALL AN OUTSTANDING GAME!

The Godfather

Be a mobster, claw your way to the top and take control of New York.

Quick review:

An excellent buy. Indepth story, excellent graphics, great game play and enough missions to keep you busy for a long time. Fans of "The Godfather" movie won't be disappointed, the game is faithful to the original story. Fans of GTA will enjoy the familiar feel of the game.

Want more info?

You become an unofficial enforcer and work you're way up the ranks. The final goal is to take control New York. Along the way, you must deal with rival families, the police, and the FBI.

The extensive map allows you to explore all of New York from the beginning. You can work toward taking control a section at a time (Little Italy, Hell's Kitchen, ect), or take a little bit of every area.

Helpful mobsters give you tips on bribing the police, hijacking trucks, and methods to use. The senior members of the Family will give you missions as your respect level grows.

Some of the graphics are repeated over and over (flower shop, bakery, hotels, cars), but the city is excellently rendered. You can easily get lost or wind up turning the wrong corner and being ambushed on a dead end street if you don't make use of your map.

While the grame draws on the themes of the Grand Theft Auto games (random violence, steal cars, run over people) it is not a copy. The elements it borrows from the game add to the over all game play.

This game is an excellent buy with weeks of game play no matter how good you are at video games.

Grand Theft Auto with a Twist!

When I first rented this game, I wasnt sure if it could possibly be as good as the magazines made it seem. Well, was I wrong. I am a huge Godfather fan, and the sounds, the characters and the plots are pretty authentic.

You start off as a lowly soilder and work your way up to the ranks of Don of the Corleone family. The graphics are awesome, gameplay is excellent and there are weeks and weeks of game to play no matter how much you think you have accomplished.

The one thing I dont like about the game, and maybe I am nitpicking, is that when you become Don of the Corleone family, you are still walking the streets and doing things that you were as a soilder. I figured that you would more or less call the shots and order hits rather than actually conduct them yourself.

This game is a must own for any GTA owner and Godfather fan. It will keep you interested with movie clips, character voices and cool effects!

A LITTLE OVERATED!

What you do in the game

In this game you design your own character at the start and play through the game as him, even though your character wasn't in the movie you still play major parts from it.

Note: You really need to have seen the film to understand the game.

Graphics The graphics in this game are really good (not including cutscenes as the graphics are usually good on them) life-like people walk the streets and each individual person even has their own name. Weapons also have good graphics. Main characters in the game have extra, detailed features and look even better than civillians. Each city has good graphics like the buildings etc. Though shops are heavily recycled. You will get used to it. The cars graphics aren't really good as you can't see through the windows. They have a cartoonish look to them. The cars are the thing in the game that stopped me giving the graphics 10 points in this review.

Gameplay

The gameplay is quite good, though not the best, the best thing is extorting shopkeepers and forcing them to give you protection money, thats if they don't give you it when you ask them nicely at the start, Sometimes you can push shopkeepers past their limit when extorting them and they will fight back hard. The freestyle fighting is cool at the start but gets boring when you have played the game long enough. The special gun moves are the same with the freestyle fighting, fun at the start then boring. Also the game is to easy, there isn't really a hard mission in the game. The cars are also a major problem, they actually are like a 1940's car, too slow can't turn properly etc. br />

Note: To change your characters clothes you have to gain money save the game, load it and then select ' Go to the tailor shop' .

Other comments

The game is compaired to GTA, but that isn't really true, the only thing the games have in common is the map at the bottom right of the screen and the fact the the triangle button gets you in a car. I bought the game for £29.99 which is about $49.99, $59..99 in the US , I'm not sure bu It's not worth that, I think it's only worth about £20.00 which it is at a games shop near me at the moment. This game definetly isn't for everyone, I mean I love free roaming, random killing games but this game didn't give me a thrill, so you should definetly rent it first. But, I suppose it's still a good game for some.