Becoming your godfather...

The Godfather (2006)

I usually find that games that follow the whole GTA aspect of gaming often turn out to be as good, or better than what GTA has taken years to accomplish. The same can be said about this game. Following the basic plot from the movie, which means you play as some stupid kid and help out "the family" when a problem arises. The idea of running around doing errands for someone else is what games are all about. Essentially it's like real life except you get to shoot every blue, red, green, and brown jacketed man who makes an offensive gesture towards you. That means just about anyone who isn't you, so when you go to take over a business (oh! Did I forget to mention that you can take over businesses?) you're basically entering a gun fight with meanest bastards to ever walk the streets of the...1940's? 1950's? Ah well, who cares? Unlike some of the games that fall into this genre, the missions are almost too easy, you can make a couple of thousand dollars in a matter of half an hour maximum, and you don't have absolutely retarded police. So many times in GTA have I driven my car straight into a police vehicle and yet nothing happens. This game on the other hand has moderately intelligent police A.I. which means they will try to stop you when you rob a bank (by the way, you can rob banks!). My only issues with the game are that transport is really lacking. Fair enough, it is set in the 19-somethingoranothers and transport would be considered limited compared to now. But, it is no excuse to have only 5 or 6 different cars and then have train tracks that you can't even use. Also, the majority of the vehicles are incredibly slow or incredibly weak. I mean, the first time I hijacked a taxi and realised it's speed didn't reach double figures, I started to consider the irony of the matter: a New York City taxi that cannot go fast. Poppycock! Can't happen! Unfortunately it has and continues to do so. Sometimes I wonder if developers intentionally put these flaws in their games just to annoy us. Like if they didn't get Al Pacino to play the part of Michael. By the way, they didn't! Oh well! But that doesn't make it a bad game, just flawed. Without Al Pacino it probably doesn't reach the level of awesome it should, but it is still worth getting if you feel your current games are all too samey - like the Final Fantasy series!

7.6/10