The Godfather - Often imitated but never to be duplicated
User Rating: 6.3 | The Godfather XBOX
This game stands as living proof of that. The storyline is brilliant, obviously. Not a hard thing to do since its based on the greatest Mafia movie of all time. But several technical aspects ruin the game. First of all, there is the baby-on-crack combat system. If an enemy pulls out a gun before you, get ready to take more then a few shots because EA made it especially hard to get your gun out for some reason. Also, the hand-to-hand combat system is relatively weak and is easy to pick up and execute but lacks any real depth. Secondly, its the blandness of the world around you. Everything looks the same - literally. You walk into a barber shop in Brooklyn and voila, its the same dude you extorted back in Little Italy. And look...its the same store too!!! You get the picture.
Positves - Its the Godfather! Really long and deep storyline. Long replay value if you really get into taking over NYC.
Negatives - Horrid aiming. Bland landscapes. Weird story archs (see below).
PS. Wait, do you all remember the part when Don Corleone was shot but for some reason numerous unexplained and unknown people kept following his ambulance firing at him? Hmm..me neither but it's in the game. Go Figure.
