Difficulty:

Just Right

Time Spent:

100 or More Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Just plain fun"

The Godfather- arguably, the best film ever made to date, to be considered by me and by many other moviegoers. The Godfather would be just perfect as a game, and The Godfather has had many games based on the film. Most of them try hard, but never truly take off- The Godfather game on the PlayStation 2 being an exception. Well, The Godfather: Blackhand Edition is the same PS2 game at it's core, but it's simply sublime control scheme for the Wii truly makes this games shine from all the other movie tie in games out there, and The Godfather Blackhand Edition truly does justice to a truly fantastic film.

The controls for The Godfather: Blackhand Edition are as grand as gold. You can aim at your enemies by just pointing at them with the Wii Remote, and then by pressing Z on the Nunchuck to shoot at them. Aiming with the Wii Remote with your gun allows much more damage than you do in the normal game, and you swing the Nunchuck and the Wii Remote to clob a baseball bat at your enemy, or to throw a molotov cocktail at them. These controls are bueatifully handled in Blackhand Edition, and wheras controls in most movie tie in games get in the way, the controls with Blackhand Edition are easy and responsive to use.

The Godfather: Blackhand Edition is a game with many fun tasks to complete in the game, and is one of those rare titles that will never leave you wondering what to do next. There is 20 more new hit missions then there are in the orginial game, and 50 more main missions to do than the previous game. Not only is there lots to do by numbers in this game, but also these are missions are fun to complete, and will leave you coming back for more.

Overall, The Godfather: Blackhand Edition is the best port of The Godfather game to ever have been released, and this is one movie tie-in that certainly does not sleep with the fishes- line from the classic film itself.