The essential mobster movie, The Godfather, gets a makeover in the form of an interesting and innovative video game. Over the last decade, we have seen numerous games in a 3rd person vantage point. Games with an image of a character going on a tirade of gunfire, to complete missions. Now, with that thought in mind, imagine a game with similar attributes, but gives the player a little more freedom to go about handling miscellaneous tasks outside of the main mission and has a motion control scheme! Whoa Nelly!!! Sign me up!! By that token, the game-play itself has a leisure feel to it, but still manages to give some tense moments. The mission objectives themselves are easy to follow with knowledge of an in game map, and navigation abilities. Travel within the game is done by two measures: driving yourself , or using a phone within the safe-houses to call a driver. The "driving yourself" is pretty much like any other 3rd person driving experience, thumb-stick to steer, button for brake, button for hand brake (slide braking), and, of course, the gas button. When you hire an accomplice, you can have them shoot out the window while driving, but you have no control over the gunfire of the "gun-for-hire". Truth be told, outside of the average driving scheme we've seen before the game is not bad, not bad at all. The extortion of business' by means of a gesture control element somehow feels so sinister; but cool at the same time! Being able to walk your character into neighborhood business', to extort money, has an everlasting appeal to it. I was truly upset, once I had extorted all the business'. I even tried destroying some of the business' with hope new ones would pop up. Alas, no cigars! A Sim City like element involving the rebuilding of business' would have been an awesome addition to this game, giving the player an open ended feel. The premise of the game is strikingly similar to a GTA clone with a motion control scheme. However; this game delivered me a play experience that could not be touched by GTA. Just making gestures to control the character on screen is so worth the 50 bucks alone. Choking, punching, aiming a gun, swinging a bat, grabbing a victim and slamming their head on a wall, counter, etc. was pretty awesome. For example, grabbing that first shop owner by the lapels, and slinging them against a wall! LOL ! The Godfather theme is totally represented well in this game, and you can even collect clips of the film, through out the game, to watch anytime. I totally recommend this game to someone who is familiar or unfamiliar with GTA type games. I own this game myself, and I still enjoy playing it over again; even though I've beaten it!
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