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There's so much to do that when you beat it, there's still stuff to do...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game took me all summer to beat. I'm a teacher and I sepnt my entire summer playing this game, I finally beat it at the end of July and when I became Don of NYC there was still stuff to do. This game was weill worth the money because there's always stuff to do!

Amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty much GTA but with a much larger story line and one that actually makes sense. The only downside is the small choice of weapons. It is one of the most open ended games i have ever played. You can either play the story, or you can just run around and rob banks or scare businesses owners into sharing their profits with the family. One of the best features is the ability to hire assistants to help you out. It is very enjoyable to attack your rival families compounds and warehouses with your own private army. This is a must own for the 360.

Fun diversion but not the game I'd hoped for

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

After playing "Mafia" I couldn't wait for The Godfather game to come out. The screen shots and videos looked a lot like Mafia but with all of my favorite Godfather characters. I basically loved the missions and interacting with the original characters and story line but I have to admit there were some huge dissapointments. My first dissapointment was how the developers used (and over-used) the same exterior and interior spaces, I would see the same buildings and sets so many times that I would get confused as far as what part of the city I was in. The draw distance is also very low; buildings, cars and people appear out of no where as you are walking and driving, this lack of continuity really takes away from getting into the game. Driving is a huge hassle because many of the streets are so narrow that you either get stuck behind slow drivers or crash into them to push them out of the way. I also had problem with game play; the game advertised that you can be as mean or nice as you want but there is really no way to play this game without putting a lot of hurt on shop owners. I mean it's a given that you'll kill or hurt other gangsters but there are way too many beatings of civilians in the game. One thing I like about Mafia was that all throughout the game the character was getting drawn deeper and deeper into the gang but there was always a sense of "is this right?". Even the ending of Mafia showed that the gang life doesn't always end happily. In this sense the Godfather movies are much more like the game Mafia then like the game The Godfather. As far as the character models go they were pretty good, even better than Mafia, I just wish Pacino had given permission for his likeness because the Michael Corleone model doesn't look or sound anything like him, and that really sucks because he was really the main character of all 3 movies.

If you're a big Godfather fan and want to interact with some of the movies characters then go ahead and buy this game. But if you're really looking for a gangster style shooter with a great story and better city graphics then buy Mafia.

welcome to the family

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am amazed with the graphics and game play, the fact that the game plays off of the movie is my faovirte part to me. the gameplay is similar to grand theft auto but on a much higher and better scale. taking over warehouses and stores to build your status up is so much fun. I would recommend this game to anyone above 16, you can start the gameplay and not have to worry about the missions if you dont want to. there is so much to keep you occupied through out the borrows of ny and jersey you end up finding new and exciting missions everytime you play.

A Microcosm of EA

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Two thing stand out about this game:

1) The remarkable degree to which it was lifted from the GTA franchise
2) How inferior it is to said franchise

Really, it comes down to the difference between EA and Rockstar Games. Rockstar very rarely puts anything less than A effort into their games. Consequently, A ideas become A games and even F ideas become C games. EA puts C effort into most of their games, so even a great idea like this one becomes a B or C game. Not BAD certainly, but far from great.

Some of the flaws of the game are forgivable because they are flawws of the genre: narrative in video games is still in its infancy (in my mind, television is just now coming into its own as a narrative medium and it has been at it a lot longer than video games and is closer to more developed mediums like movies and books). A lot of the flaws, though, are simply problems of too little effort having been put into the game.

I don't BLAME EA for this per se. It is established that people will buy their games even if they put C effort into them. I don't see what motivation they have to put A effort in any more than they do. HAving said that, I didn't notice until I got the game home that it was from EA. Had a noticed that, I wouldn't have bought the games. I'll be more careful in the future.

Great Game EA..

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

theres not too much bad i can say about this game at all. the graphics on the box are excellent, the controls are flawless and New York in the timeframe of the 50's is captured Beautifully. the Gun Fights are particularly realistic due to the fact that you cant take 10 shots and still live...1 shot from a shotgon and 90% of your life is gone...so youv really got to be smart when going into a gunfight with multiple enemies...because if not, you WILL be killed every single time. the 5 areas that they give you to explore are satisfying, and extorting the shops in all 5 areas will keep you Busy for a VERRYYY long time. that in and of itself could have been the games main focus. overall, if you were interested in Godfather or just like a decent exploration game with shooting action...or if you collect xbox games like me..you NEED to pick this up...you wont be dissapointed. this is right up there with any GTA title you can name, in alot of ways, even better...excellent job E.A...

iLL .

Great atmosphere!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: April 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing Godfather on the xbox for over a week. Am having a great time. There are so many aspects to the game, I think it will have great replay-ability.

great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: August 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

it is a very good game and it was very worthwhile when the mafia game is bad

It couldn't get any worse...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 24
Date: March 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

In a review submitted below, and prior to the release of this game, somebody raised a concern that it might turn out to be little more than a cheap copy of GTA. Well, that reviewer needn't have worried as The Godfather doesn't seem like a cheap copy of GTA or even a 3rd rate copy of GTA. In actual fact it seems more like an abysmal copy of another game somewhere else that had already copied Grand Theft Auto badly...and that's about the best thing I can say for it as digging further the pain just doesn't stop there.

While the both the page turning novel and epic film adaptation of The Godfather had intelligence, style and a reasonable degree of depth, the game has zero intelligence, zero style and no depth whatsoever. It is moulded in the style of throwing zombie-like pedestrians and AI-challenged enemies in your way while you go about the business of unrealistically forging a career in the mafia. You can basically steal cars (as already mentioned - just like in GTA), grab people and then waggle the left stick around on your control pad to beat them up thereby either intimidating or `icing' them, you can shoot some badly textured guns without any danger of feeling like your have ever been near a gun or a gunfight, and you can watch some utterly rubbish cut-scenes that stitch the thing together with all the grace and subtlety of a Punch and Judy retelling of the original story.

While all this is going on, of course, there are other treats to lose yourself in. Marvel as your character gets a haircut or buys some clothes (again, just as in GTA) or become steadily overawed by the addition of a skill points system that allows you to increase your ability to waggle the left stick around to greater effect or to shoot your unrealistic gun even faster. Also, you may love the truly ridiculous driving missions that are occasionally thrown your way, in which you get to pilot something that looks like a badly drawn brick around the dull and uninteresting streets, while further AI-challenged enemies swerve at you like metal lemmings in an attempt to irritate you to death.

To be as blunt as possible, The Godfather is probably the worst game I have ever played, and that is really saying something. Like EA's previous fiasco of 2006 - Black - it seems as if a fantastic idea was somehow given a lobotomy, checked through a series of Mediocrity Assurance Committees and only finally then released when it had been proved itself dumb enough not to confuse anybody with an IQ matching their shoe size. For myself, I could just about tolerate that from Black as who cares if there is one more moronic video game to avoid, but when it comes to dragging The Godfather into the sewer then I have really had enough.

To trash the memory of one of the best movies ever made by plastering a ropy narrative and a generally lacklustre game onto it is unforgivable and I sincerely hope - whoever you may be reading this - that you will feel the same. Please don't buy The Godfather as it deserves to be a black eye for the company that made it, and then perhaps the idiots responsible will be taken out of the loop for future releases.

Pretty good game for Godfather enthusiasts

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a pretty good game. The storyline is entertaining and the graphics are well done. The voice acting is a nice touch and well above average.

If you like the Godfather movies you will get a kick out of playing some missions that come straight out of the movie, and if you arent a Godfather fan you will still probably enjoy the GTA style action.

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