The Godfather

[EdenMaster]

So anyone else pick this up? I got it yesterday and, having worked my way up the Corleone family to the rank of soldier, I'm loving it. There have been some awesome nods to the movie too. For instance...

(in the rare case nobody has seen the movie yet)


You're underling character is responsible for many of the little tasks that need done. So far, I've had to sneak into the room of the movie producer to place the horses head in his bed. I had to whack Paulie. He heard me cock the gun so he ran, so I had to chase him down to kill him. I had to go to Louie's Restaurant and place the gun behind the toilet for Michael to use, the drive him to the docks (amidst Tattaglia gunfire) so that he could depart for Sicily. I also accompanied Luca to the bar to cover him (though oddly, you can do nothing but watch him be choked.

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The voice acting is also excellent, and the attention to detail to the movie is stunning. Many scenes consist of dialogue that is exactly verbatim as in the movie.

So, anybody else have any thoughts?

[Dark Jaguar]

We have actual spoiler tags.

[EdenMaster]

[A Black Falcon]

An EA game about a movie I haven't seen, presumably for systems I don't have... nah, I don't think I have any interest...

[The Former DMiller]

I love the Godfather trilogy, but the fact that EA made this game has made me wary of it. Keep us updated on how it is, though, as you've certainly peaked my interest a bit.

[Weltall]

An EA game about a movie I haven't seen,

You should have your breathing priveleges revoked.

[cppcrusader]

I actually got this on PS2 for my birthday, even though I was bad mouthing a week before to the person who got it for me. I was of the camp that really didn't think this game needed to be made. I had thought it was just using a license for the sake of using a license.

With that said, I've been impressed by it so far, granted I've only gotten as far as just the initial tutorial missions, I've got family in town so I haven't really had a chance to delve into it fully.

One of the initial things I've seen so far that bugged me though was the player's run animation. Walking looks fine but the run animation just looks completely unnatural, and sprinting is just the run sped up.

I do have to say that I think its got the best tutorial/intro stuff I've seen yet. They do a good job of keeping the player in the enviroment while learning the ropes.

[Great Rumbler]

I refuse to buy this game or even consider the notion that it might in any conceivable way be "good".

[A Black Falcon]

You should have your breathing priveleges revoked.

There are lots of movies I haven't seen, why should I care oh so much for any specific one of them?

[EdenMaster]

[Dark Jaguar]

I refuse to buy this game or even consider the notion that it might in any conceivable way be "good".

Now that's a closed minded attitude.

[lazyfatbum]

The game is pure shit, one of my favorite favorites reviews is a podcast from a UK site. Lemme see if I can find it...

[lazyfatbum]

From spong:

EA Lose $800 Million Through Godfather Saga

FT puts value on costly delay of Mafia blockbuster.

20th Mar 2006



Whilst development costs of EA’s forthcoming Mafia blockbuster The Godfather stretch to somewhere in the region of $10m to $20m, a report in the Financial Times suggests that the financial hit EA has taken from the game is in the region of $800m.

This is based on an estimation that a 5% drop in EA’s shares last July was largely down to delays with The Godfather game. To compound this, EA confirmed last month that The Godfather would finally be released this month at the premium price of $49.95. Fewer than three weeks later, it changed its mind and announced a $39.95 price tag.

“It’s been very difficult to pull off and we’ve had one slip – from November to March – but we’ve managed to move it from being ordinary to extraordinary with the extra tuning that it needed,” executive producer David De Martini told the Financial Times.

The Godfather has been treated as a proper blockbuster franchise by EA, featuring original star Marlon Brando who completed voiceovers for his Don Corleone character before his untimely death in summer 2004 from unsustainable obesity.

Some internet wags have likened the open-ended game to a Grant Theft Auto clone – which, while perhaps slightly unfair, has clearly been an inspiration.

Adam and Joe also ran an hysterical review of the game on their XFM weekend radio show right here. Do listen to this if you have a spare two minutes, because it is actually wee-yourself-funny.

There's a full SPOnG review to follow later this week. The Godfather is released in North America tomorrow (21) and in Europe on March 24.

Review cast: http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/pics3/godfather.wma

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not only did they fuck up one of my favorite films of all time by turning it in to a GTA-cookie cutter but then they botched up their marketing and internal affairs so that they spend 10 to 20 million on making the thing and then screw up its launch. beautiful, I hope to God people wake up and stop buying EA krap. The review is also awesome. :D

[EdenMaster]

Ah, that review isn't fair. For one thing, they focused on only one aspect of the game, which is extorting local businessowners for protection from the Corleones, while taking it away from the other families, thus weakening their power, if slightly. So far I've not reached a point in the game where you <u>need</u> to extort businessowners, it just makes your job easier, and nets you more money.

Did they perhaps come across a clip of Luca Brasi having a knife slammed through his hand while he's choked to death? Perhaps one of Clemenza and Paulie conversing like friends, before leaving the car so you can kill him? Maybe one of Michael getting up from his chair in the restaurant and blowing away Sollazzo and McClusky? No of course not. Then they'd have to find something else to whine about.

To call it shit without trying it, and basing your information solely upon biased reviews, is foolish. Give it a rent. If you're not happy with it, oh well.

[Dark Jaguar]

Seems a rational thing to say. I suppose I'll give it a play. If I don't like it I'll throw it away. At any rate it'll make a full day.

[EdenMaster]

Hooray! That's what I'd hoped you'd say.

[Great Rumbler]

[EdenMaster]

If OB1 were here, I'm sure he's post that Jeopardy picture of the woman with just "what" as he answer.

That's certainly what I'd post. For lack of it though, I'll just give you the classic:

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[The Former DMiller]

Well you've certainly convinced me Eden. I'll give it a rent and see how she handles.

[Great Rumbler]

Those are from actual The Godfather screenshots as released by Electronic Arts.

[A Black Falcon]

If OB1 were here, I'm sure he's post that Jeopardy picture of the woman with just "what" as he answer.

Is it just me, or does this make me suddenly not miss him at all...

Anyway, yeah, EA has made a few good games (SSX, Future Cop LAPD, some of the Need for Speed games, Moto Racer, and the games from the companies they bought, before they destroyed them all... (Bullfrog, Origin, etc))... but overall they've become the greatest force for mediocricy and boringness in the industry...

[lazyfatbum]

eden/ i watched several movies of it, read reviews from all over the net, etc. The game is a GTA wannabe and it doesnt even do that very well, the graphics are chunky and bizzare and looks like an unfinished game, all of the voice acting except the obvious exclusion is horrible. if you've played True Crime 2, or GTA, you've played this game. It is not how I imagined a Godfather game would be as the GTA style gameplay does not fit, i was hoping for something like Silent Scope where you play as a hitman with an RTS-type mechanic for controlling areas of the city or getting rid of mooks on your turf so that you can eventually become the Godfather and then have to look over your shoulder where ever you go from hitman out to get you, instead we get this rehashed garbage that cost between 10 and 20 million dollars to make. I would rather suck the barf out of another man's mouth while purposefully hammering my balls in to a metal slate than play this game. Not a joke.

[Weltall]

I always imagined a Godfather game playing something like Wario Ware.

That of course being in the scant few seconds in which I ever imagined a Godfather game to be necessary.

[lazyfatbum]

Hahahaha :D:D i just pictured 4 people playing 'Kiss the Ring!" or 'Holy Horse Head!" ...oh..... genius.....

*immeadiately calls EA*