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The Godfather: The Game Reviews - PS2
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| Publisher: | Electronic Arts |
| ESRB Rating: | Mature |
| Release Date: | 5/30/2008 |
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great game - 9/3/2009
This game is a lot of fun. It reminds me of grand theft auto vice city. It's hard to find your way back to check off points.
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great game
- 9/3/2009
This game is a lot of fun. It reminds me of grand theft auto vice city. It's hard to find your way back to check off points.
Join the Family
- 5/1/2009
I first discovered THE GODFATHER THE GAME while watching ENTOURAGE. Johnny Drama was playing the game and was repeating lines from the movie & game. I don't know why, but that scene fascinated me so much that I decided to play it.
THE GODFATHER THE GAME allows you to play a character who joins the Corleone family after the murder of your father and rise through the family ranks. The ultimate goal is to become not only the Corleone Don, but the Don of New York. For the most part, the storyline follows the plot of THE GODFATHER movie. There are main missions to complete that progress the storyline, but there are also other missions you can complete to increase the family business and wipe out other rival families. You can choose to ignore the smaller missions, but if you wish to become the Don of New York you'll have to complete them. These smaller missions bring you into conflict with rival families and if you attack a rival family too often, you'll incite a Mob War and will have to either bomb a property of the rival family or pay off an FBI agent.
Those who have played GRAND THEFT AUTO: SAN ANDREAS will notice many similarities. The games are very similar in the format, but completely different in style. The settings of THE GODFATHER recreate New York City from the late 1950s-early 1960s. Everything from the clothing the characters wear to the cars they drive are vintage. The game is quite violent, but even the violence is a bit more stylistic instead of the more savage and in-your-face violence found in GTA games. Most of the characters from THE GODFATHER movie are seen in the game and they resemble their movie counterparts.
I really enjoyed playing THE GODFATHER. The only negative about the game was all of the driving. There were many times while playing that you had to drive from one part of New York to the other. This was rather tedious, especially if I was across the bridge in the Bronx and had to travel to Hell's Kitchen to complete a mission (that would take about four minutes just to drive).
Overall, though the game doesn't break any new ground, it's an entertaining game that's full of style.
Not worth $50 but Fun
- 3/22/2009
Needing a break from Grand Theft Auto and not willing to buy a PS3 I decided to buy Godfather. Overall I like the game but it needs improvements. It feels and looks like the 40's and is a nice revisiting of the movie, which I wanted to watch again after playing awhile! You can create your character from hairstyle and eye color to height of eyebrows and size of ears. It satisfies my shoot 'em up craving and has some fun melee effects. You can toss people out of windows, over ledges, in front of moving cars and you can strangle them and bash their head into walls and solid objects. The greatest thing about it is it has the sweetest duck, cover and shoot system I have ever played. The weapons are nice with 3 upgrade levels, each with a noticeable difference in fire power and speed. You cant just charge in blasting and expect to survive you must carefully plan your attack and use your wits and cover.
However the bad parts of the game are really bad. The game is short, it said I played 100+ hours but heres why. You get paid every Sunday but time moves slow, so slow the first time I finished the game I had only received 7 checks! So I let the game run for hours, even overnight several days just to get paychecks. You also have to drive alot, it takes 3 real-time minutes to drive to New Jersey! So game play is closer to 50 hours. There are only 4 vehicles. They are heavy and slow and when you hit another car you stop dead. No cool physics that let you bounce off or fly over. You just stop and have to slowly back up and go around. Everytime you exit a car you must wait for him to close the door. Even when the car is on fire and about to explode youre waiting for him to close the door before you can make him RUN.
The game is not well thought out and poorly paced. It should take longer than two months to become Don! You may kill a guy in a side mission but he will be alive to kill again in the story mission. If you start a mob war with a family and completly eliminate that family, you're STILL at war with them until you bribe an FBI agent. (How can you be at war with people who dont exist?) The same family you eliminate will still be talked about in the storyline because there is no cohesion. You move up the ranks by doing the story missions but even when you become Don you're still doing menial type jobs because the promotions are too fast and completely unrelated to the other things you may be doing.
Though barbers and tailors exist in the game you cannot use them to change your clothes or appearance. You must save the game, quit the game, reload the game and then you get an option to go to the tailor or barber. When you save the game it will not default to the game you are playing so you must select it everytime. It asks, are you sure you want this file, but covers up the list so you're not really sure which file you selected.
The last drag -and there are more but hey, Ive got a life- involves the shoot mechanism. There are certain kill styles you can perform, which are cool, but theres 1 style you cant control. If you shoot someone very close to you it will start an animation that causes you to stand straight up (losing cover), grab the guy, shot him in the stomach, then the head and then finally stop. Meanwhile bad guys are blasting the heck out of you cos you are in plain sight and unable to shoot back. I have died countless times because of this and its a drag. There isnt as much to do as people say. You can extort businesses and takeover rackets (which is required if you want to complete the game), rob banks, do assasinations and do the story missions. Thats it.
There are definitly fun elements to the game and its nice to see yourself in the cut scenes with James Caan et al, but it does get repetitive and I really wish I could snap to a place rather than drive all the time. I played through twice but only because it went so fast I wanted to get my $20 worth. Its certainly not worth more. I will play it again but only after I forget how frustrating it can be.
the god father
- 12/18/2008
great game great story mode puts you right in the film with things that couldve happened that we diddnt see in the film. great free roam
very poor
- 12/6/2008
after recieving this game, found out that it didn't work..took it and had it professionally cleaned....still doesn't work...takes forever to load, then there is no background graphics..was a complete waste of money...bought the companion book to go with it....now its worthless too. thanks alot
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