Home > Games > Console & Computer Games > Xbox 360 > Xbox 360 Action Games

An offer you can refuse

7 reviews | Write a review |

Welcome to the Corleone family. After a life of small-time jobs and petty thefts you've been accepted into America's most famous criminal organization. Now it's up to you to carry...
more...out orders, earn respect, rise through the ranks, and make New York City your own. Play your cards right and you could even be running everything as the next, and most powerful, Don. A story about family, respect and loyalty, The Godfather book by Mario Puzo and film by Paramount Pictures serve as inspiration for the game as you join the Corleone family and earn respect through loyalty and fear as you rise through the ranks to become Don in a living, 1945-1955 New York. The Godfather video game will put you at the center of action in one of history's most revered cinematic masterpieces, allowing you to create yourself in the game, and then choose your path as you rise from lowly outsider to envied and feared Don. Featuring non-linear action-adventure gameplay, The Godfather will offer gamers countless choices for solving the family's problems with brutal violence, skillful diplomacy, or a cunning mixture of both. From mob hits and bank heists to drive-bys and extortion, step deep inside the world of The Godfather where intimidation and negotiation are your tickets to the top. Players will use their powers of loyalty and fear to earn respect through interactions with characters in the world. Decisions made by the player in the game will have lasting consequences, just as it was in the mob underworld featured in The Godfather fiction. The Godfather film from Paramount Pictures featured some of Hollywood's finest actors and several are contributing to the game's development. All character likenesses from the movie will be included and lending their voices to add a dramatic and cinematic touch to the game are the late Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone, James Caan as Sonny Corleone and Robert Duvall as consigliore Tom Hagen. Features: The world of The Godfather - Experience a decade of violence in New York City from 1945-55. Classic Film Moments - Non-linear action adventure gameplay with missions direct from the film and original missions with characters from film provides an experience for all types of gamers Put yourself in the Godfather - Players will create their own mobster and put themselves in the action of the game and experience the fiction of The Godfather. Respect and Consequences - Players will use their powers of loyalty and fear to earn respect throughout New York City. Decisions made by the player in the game will have lasting consequences. Persistent world - Your character will interact freely with other characters in the world. Depending on your needs in the game and how you choose to play the game, by violent or intimidating means or respectful or negotiating means, the characters in the world will remember your interactions with them and your interactions will affect the outcome of the game. Control New York - The control of New York will be challenged by the five families from the fiction including the Tattaglia, Cuneo, Sollozzo, Brazini, and Stracci families. Mark Winegardner, author of the novel Godfather Returns, is providing story editing and fiction insight.

Please wait ....

Rate this product:

All The Godfather (Xbox 360) reviews

Previous review | Next review

An offer you can refuse

A review by rokhed00 on The Godfather (Xbox 360)
October 5th, 2006

Author's product rating: The Godfather (Xbox 360) - rated by rokhed00

Playability & Enjoyment	OK -
Addictiveness	Not exactly addictive but certainly playable
Graphics	OK
Difficulty & Complexity	Average - suitable for most
Value for money	Satisfactory - it’s a reasonable game

Advantages:	Follows the movie faithfully
Disadvantages:	Repetitive gameplay and quite a few bugs in the game

Recommend to potential buyers:

Full review

Oh dear, what have Electronic Arts done now?
They've taken one of the greatest movies of all time and palmed us off with an average game under the same name.
The Godfather games story follows the movie, but you don't play as one of the main characters, instead you take the part of a new member of the family and follow the action from the sidelines. You do get to partake in some of the movies more memorable scenes, placing the horses head in the bed for instance, but you don't get to be the Godfather or anything. This is probably the best way they could have done things though as playing one of the main characters would have limited the game even more.
As it is, the game is just another Grand Theft Auto clone, and not a particularly good one. The movies storyline make up the games main missions and whilst they do take longer to play than watching the film it's still completed all too quickly and isn't a fraction of the size of other games of this type, especially not Rockstars game that they've so obviously ripped off.
There's still plenty to do apart from the story, but it's all very repetitive stuff, drive here, kill such snd such, and so on. The game also has more than it's fair share of bugs and glitches, getting stuck halfway through a wall, non player characters just mouthing at you rather than speaking and being unable to complete missions through no fault of your own are just a few of the problems I had with the game. The games graphics aren't even that good, especially as this is meant to be next gen, and are little different from the Xbox and PS2 versions of the game.
The games not bad, but really it's a case of seen it all before, but if you're a fan of the GTA series or the movie then this is worth a rental, but I really couldn't recommend this as a purchase, not when the same game can be found cheaper on other consoles.
I can see why Francis Ford Coppola wasn't happy about the game.