The Godfather

[Jacene]

Well obviously, this game is based off of the classic movie about revenge, betrayal, and corruption. And trust me the game lives up to the slogan.

The game lets you fulfill your own life as a mobster for the Corleone family, as you play through memorable scenes in the movie (ie. the horse head). One of my favorite parts is the customization you can do, to create your own unique look. I am quite happy with my dark italian with a vest and tie, and a dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up in a fedora going around town extorting from merchants, making them pay for protection. You start with just small extortions, then move up to busting up bank vaults. This game has a very similar GTA feel, yet is more fun in my opinion, just because I prefer the class 1940s New York compared to San Andreas or Liberty City. Some of the actors come back to voice their characters in this game, such as James Caan and Robert Duvall.

The combat is a bit different, when you are going hand to hand, you target your enemy and then press the right thumbstick to beat them senseless, but you get used to it and like it eventually. There are many weapons from the past in this game, such as the .45, a snub nose revolver, and of course, any mobsters choice, the tommy gun.

Driving is also a big part of the game, running from corrupt cops or from rival families. I really like how they did put in a "your actions can mess you up later on" sort of thing. For example, today, I extorted many rival families' shops to side with us, and to give us money weekly. Well now that one rival family has me in their sights all the time. I have to be careful when going around town freely, after extorted many shops and killing other rival mobsters, I saw around me many men with the same coat...next thing I know I turn a street and a roadblock was made with their cars, and they gunned me down.

So you see, its not just random spawning, they will see you then wait until more of their buddies gather, then strike you down when you go into the tailor, or the barber.

Now one of my biggest gripes is that the interior to many buildings is all the same. Its not that big of a deal, just somewhat annoying. That still doesn't keep me from saying this is one solid game.

Overall, I give it a 9/10

[KaiTenSatsuma]

i just want to know.... do the cars blow up? ive seen some screenies that made it look like they did but... i dont think they were able to back then.

and how does the reputation thing work? is it like GTA with just random missions given out or you do your own thing for most of the time?

like wipe new mobs out you dont want around, or is that just in the missions?

[Jacene]

i just want to know.... do the cars blow up? ive seen some screenies that made it look like they did but... i dont think they were able to back then.

and how does the reputation thing work? is it like GTA with just random missions given out or you do your own thing for most of the time?

like wipe new mobs out you dont want around, or is that just in the missions?

Yep the cars blow up, whether they did or not back then doesn't bother me.

The reputation is like, you can either run around extorting business or taking over warehouses or follow the main story line, I just do both but more extorting then anything because the payout every week gets pretty big after you are promoted in the family a bit.

If you wipe alot of the members of another family, they will get very angry at you. I am not sure really how to answer your question, I didn't understand it fully.

[KaiTenSatsuma]

ok example : do new mobs form inside of the game?
if so, can you wipe those mobs out, i dont know, by going to a funeral and killing them all ?
although i doubt the game has funerals its that kind of example.

[Jacene]

Ah I get it, no new mobs aren't formed, there are...I think five rival families...I have to get back to you on that, and it is possible to get rid of a rival family but very hard, you have to take over every single business and warehouse they have control of.

[Filan Fyretracker]

sounds like its a game you cant refuse.......

course i doubt you get into Waste Management......

[KaiTenSatsuma]

cool, then im damn sure its worth getting.

its like a GTA with class, and actual decency

[Jacene]

its like a GTA with class, and actual decency

Exactly, perfect way to explain it.

[KaiTenSatsuma]

huh, i just saw a screenshot where a building seems to be blowing up.

please tell me you an do that?

always liked games with a Destruction factor, reason why i love Mercs so much.

[Zarithar]

Some trivia. Marlon Brando's last role before he passed away was doing the voiceovers for this game. He was an avid video game player during life believe it or not.

[Jacene]

Huh, never knew that about Brando, and yea you can blow up buildings. I was in a mob war with a rival family today (made them very mad by taking their businesses and killing many of their members heh) so I blew up a club they owned.

[KaiTenSatsuma]

ah i HAVE to ask.

how is the music? in fact, is there any?

[Jacene]

Yep, there is, the Godfather theme is on there of course, when you are just driving around there is some music goin, then its fun when you geting into fights because the music picks up and gives it a style of class as you extort a business or blow up an enemy business. I like the music alot.

[KaiTenSatsuma]

i was afraid it was going to be another Driv3r

except well made, and with interesting mechanics.

its too bad about Brando.... ill buy the game in his honor.

"A man who once made an offer that could not be refused."

[Kail541@msn.com]

I really enjoyed this game. It gives you a nostalgic mafia feel with a ton of resemblance to GTA:SA. The shooting mechanic is almost exactly the same as GTA:SA and the fighting mechanic has been taken from the horrible game "Blade 2". Driving is great. The music is very repetitive, but it definately gives you the feel that your a mobster.

The one problem I had with it were the graphics. Horrible! I wish they would've put this out on the nexgen systems.

Rating: 9/10

[KaiTenSatsuma]

I really enjoyed this game. It gives you a nostalgic mafia feel with a ton of resemblance to GTA:SA. The shooting mechanic is almost exactly the same as GTA:SA and the fighting mechanic has been taken from the horrible game "Blade 2". Driving is great. The music is very repetitive, but it definately gives you the feel that your a mobster.

The one problem I had with it were the graphics. Horrible! I wish they would've put this out on the nexgen systems.

Rating: 9/10

is that ment in a good way or in a bad way, since i have had no chance to even uhh.. see Blade 2 since i guess stores wont buy it from anyone due to the suckage.

and Graphics arent an implication with me since GTA:SA STILL had blocky hands and bodies, and from what ive seen there is a crap load more detail in the character models.

and i enjoyed Okage, go figure. If a person can enjoy that game with its "quirkieness" as many people put it, you can enjoy any game =)

except Orphen.

[Kail541@msn.com]

No the fighting mechanic is decent. I would've done it similar to Fight Nights, but thats me. I'm just one man with an oppinion, and you know what they say about oppinions.

The graphics are more details, but it gets choppy when driving really fast, or fighting a army of Tataligia (spelling?) soldiers.

The major thing about Godfather is the storyline. Which is GREAT!

[KaiTenSatsuma]

every opinion counts, unless its a fanboy's opinion.

or a flame, but if its a serious flame then its sorta ok.

[Rookie]

I got this game and wow.

The fighting system was very good, i liked how you can just get in the guys face and beat the crap out of them. The gun fights are awesome, pulling out a magnum or your trusty rusty shotgun and waging a one-man war.

Extorting is one of the funner aspects. My favorite method is grabbing the owner and beating his head into his own register. the ways you can get the owners to give in are so nifty. beating up an unlucky customer, busting up their stuff, knee-capping them.

I agree that the insides are a bit over-used. but sometimes for developers its just easier to copy and paste i guess. upgrading the weapons is over-priced, 25000 to upgrade a gun is a bit much, i could see it closer to 7500, but the current pricing is just friggen robbery. I want my upgrades durnit. /bitter

overall 9/10

Now if you'll excuse me, i've got a main-plot to bust out.

[Jacene]

I agree the weapons are extremely overpriced...the final upgrade for the tommy gun is $500,000 by itself.

Unfortunatly, I got my Xbox 360 and sold my Xbox because I was told I could play The Godfather on my 360...well it doesn't work and I forgot that the Xbox saves games onto the hard drive...I know I am dumb, but thats ok because Microsoft is, slowly, adding more games usable for 360. So I will just have to become the Don of New York City again soon hehe.

[KaiTenSatsuma]

sorry if this is repeating.

I do have to add, it is, in my opinion, enjoyable how what you wear effects how people react to you, it gets more simple to "persuade" unwilling shopkeepers to pay their tributes to the Corleones with higher respect bonuses off of your clothes, sometimes you dont even need to hurt them at all.

Robbing banks of course it too easy, but a great way to get cash at the beginning of the game, and often later also (when you blew all your cash on that lv 3 Tommy Gun upgrade =p) also i think its accounted for in the collectables to you need to do it anyway to become Don of NewYork.

However the game gets tedious after the main storyline and there is absolutely nothing to do after extorting all of the businesses and blowing the family houses up, and i lack the force of will to find and blow up 60 safes (got 40 of em already) and to find about 87 film reels (out of 100)

the character creation is fairly limited to an italian american, but that is understandable since we know that your mother and father were italian also, it would be uhh... different if you became chinese through aging somehow.

there are many memorable moments in this game, among them i liked the opening scene the most.

uhh... what else... driving gets boreing, but is a necessity, but you can always make that fun by hitting a few peds, if you are so inclined.

bribe FBI agents to reset your vendetta levels with all the mobs and to end mob wars, throw a bomb into the basements of family buildings to screw the family over, take over the house (bomb both compounds to obtain it along with much cash and respect xp)

fighting is fun at first and sometimes addictive, untill later mobsters pull a shotgun on you when you started punching them, sooo there are some AI bugs, or at least EA put that in to piss us off during those later, difficult missions.

and the hits are just there, i was annoyed when an AI gangster for the Corleones killed the guy i was making a hit on.

Friendly Fire would also have been nice, since no matter how you put it, a bullet wound is a bullet wound, friend or not.

[Rookie]

It is a bit tedious after the main plot, but im not completely upgraded and its still fun. I threw a store owner threw his window and out on to the street yesterday. Finding Hubs is a big bonus and attacking the warehouses is always a fun challenge. I don't have all the upgrades either so ive got the Python (magnum upgrade) and the Street Sweeper (shotgun upgrade). But if i completely take over, i'm definetly going to make another character and play the missions again.

Can't get enough of that senseless wanton violence :)

[KaiTenSatsuma]

i suggest getting the assasin's pistol and the derrigner.

derringer can bust cars up pretty well, and not reload for a while. And the pistol just kicks ass with partially auto firing.

[Jacene]

I agree, the first 3rd tier upgrade I got was the assassin's pistol, packs a good punch.

[Rookie]

I'm working on the Dillinger, but its $500,000. Once again, over-priced upgrades.

[KaiTenSatsuma]

youre mainly supposed to get the upgrades by the time youre near the end of the game, at the point where 500,000 is around what you get in two weeks.

how? i have no clue, i had the dillinger for the last mission, and about 2-3 warehouses, 1 hub, and 2 family houses.

[Rookie]

I suppose it helps that you get $1,000,000 for becoming the Don

[KaiTenSatsuma]

I suppose it helps that you get $1,000,000 for becoming the Don

you get that when you become Don of New York i think, not regular Don.

that means collecting everything, at which point the game becomes boring... well that happened after taking all of the businesses.