Difficulty:

Hard

Time Spent:

20 to 40 Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Solid"

The Godfather Blackhand Edition is a great game. I haven't watched the movies yet (I know-I'm missing out) but I can still enjoy this game. The ammount of stuff to do keeps you busy for hours and distracts you from a fun story mode which is at an average length. It's fun and the controls are pretty sweet on the Wii, but it won't seem like that at first. I'll be honest with you-at first, I wasn't enjoying myself much. The Wii motions are very fun to pull off, but it took me too long to get used to them. After playing Zelda TP to death, it took me ages getting used to the controls on Godfather. For example, the pause button for Zelda and Red Steel was the Plus button, here it's the 1 button. I found myself constantly crouching when I was trying to pause the game because of this. The guns are fun to use aswell, but when you've got an overwhelming ammount of motions to get used to along with the button controls, I found myself struggling to remember what button it was to get the guns out in the first place!

The driving works, but it isn't much to speak of. You press the A button to get into cars and you also use it to run. I found myself driving a car that was on fire meaning it was gonna blow up. When I got out of the car, I held down the A button to run away and not get caught in the blast. Instead I got back in the car and died. And whenever I didn't hold down the A button to run, I'll still get hurt because I didn't run fast enough! The graphics are great on the characters and the fire and explosion effects are just badass, but the rest of the graphics suck with bad textures and pop in. Overall, this game is great stuff, the missions are fun and lengthy, the controls are great and there's alot to do in this game, but the learning curve is colossal. Check it out as I've played this for months and still get a kick out of it.

8.5/10

84/100