Unfair Gamespot score, but still nothing great

User Rating: 7.5 | The Godfather II PC
Most of the reviews have it pretty much right. The game isn't nearly as bad as Gamespot made it out to be, but it really isn't anything outstanding or really even new.

So far I haven't encountered any bugs, glitches, or crashes (knock on wood). The story is pretty solid, and pretty interesting to see things from different perspectives. Some have complained about graphics, but I assure you on High, I think the graphics look outstanding (running on dual 8800GTXs).

A lot of this game is the same as the original. Taking over business one by one and eventually taking out the rival family is the over all goal of course with just a few minor additions to game play. This of course is where the repetitiveness of the game play starts to come through. Yeah missions are fun at first, but then it's the same thing over and over again. Also, missions typically aren't hard in the slightest and even evading police is a pretty simple task...even with a maxed wanted level.

All in all, it's really not a bad game at all and really does have a fair amount of fun, but it's nothing that would make it a "must by". The best way to describe this game is what I read in another review: "Good if you have nothing else to do."