Great Game

Reviewed by kylehenning on September 22, 2006  |  report this review

This game is a lot of fun. Just don't look for extreme accuracy to the movie or to how the mob works. You'll work your way up to boss but still be doing hits which isn't terribly accurate. The voices in the game are great and the overall stories parallel the movie well. It's a lot of fun if you aren't terribly critical.

Almost but not quite.

Reviewed by i_love_games11 on October 29, 2006  |  report this review

I had just finished watching the Godfather movies in their entirety when I decided to pick up The Godfather for the 360. I really didn't have any expectations for it because there really aren't that many good movies-to-games and there are zero cinema masterpieces-to-games but I thought what the hell.

The first thing that caught my eye is the presentation, it's high quality and sticks to the Godfather feel throughout the story. Unfortunately, this being a port from last gen systems, the graphics take a big hit. It's not that everything is ugly because the character models are all pretty damn accurate when it comes to depicting the actors, but the environment and textures just seem very bland. Of course the graphics are better than what you would find on the PS2 or Xbox, but they aren't on par with other 360 titles. The other thing I was dissappointed with were the very few mannerisms characters used to interact with each other. I got through talking to The Godfather and he stood there saluting me in a tough guy pose. Not exactly something you'd see in the movie.

The story is what really shines in this game. Instead of making a totally new story that would never live up to the original's, the Godfather places the player as a character that was in the background to the Godfather 1, but still gives the sense of a critical role and a bit of a side story just for your character. The game did a good job of putting the best parts of the movie into the game but I feel did a slight injustice to the movie not to show Vito Corleone's death. If I never watched the movie, I would be left wondering what happened to Vito and why was Michael suddenly in charge. So it does miss some critical points but it's forgivable.

The gameplay adds some things to keep it from falling into a straight GTA clone category and does a decent job of staying varied. Extortions are fun, robbing banks (and robbing a series of banks at once) is a pretty exciting little chore and the vendettas work pretty well. Other than that, hit jobs, theft and destruction are pretty much the plans of the day. Another plus to this game is the difficulty, gone are the days of GTA where you can just run into a place guns blazing. You do that in Godfather and you'll find yourself in a doctor's office real quick. This combined with leveling and stats added a little bit of strategy to the game.

The thing I dislike the most would have to be the targeting system. Lock on systems for a game with this many enemies is a terrible decision that leads to unnecessary deaths, and there is plenty because this game is very unforgiving. The other shortcoming is that you have to actually want to get arrested just to get arrested. I've been shot a lot by the cops but not once did I almost become apprehended. The police usually keep their distance and try to take you down with gunshots rather than risk their lives. And as usual, the devs skimp out on the friendly AI making the hired help little more that bulle

Great Game...

Reviewed by PilknDunn on February 19, 2007  |  report this review

I personally love this game, because of the possible achievements you can get (Associate, Soldier, Underboss, Don, ect...). But all in all The Godfather for 360, is a great game, worth playing again and again. But, there are some downfalls, the actual story of the game is way to short, controls can be dodgy at times.. But other than that its a great game..

effects are not so good

Reviewed by pimp0101 on May 08, 2007  |  report this review

the effects s-u-c-k alot.but the gameplay is good.

4/5

Its like the sopranos but a lot better

Reviewed by hack1121 on May 19, 2007  |  report this review

I was kinda hazy about gettin this game because it hardly showed any screen shot on the back of the game, but i am happy that i got it. Its cool but i hate the fact that the streets are so small. Overall I give this a 4 out of 5

Not bad... I guess

Reviewed by xbox_pimp on September 07, 2007  |  report this review

The hardest part of this game is getting used to the control configuration. It takes ALOT of getting used too. But I will have to say that it's more of a creative setup then most games (the stuff that the configuration allows you to do... like grabbing someone and beating them WHILE your hanging on to them).

Over all, I'd have to say that this worth the rental... but I'm not sure about paying retail for this title. Theyd have to to better on the GFX for that.

THE DON

Reviewed by BIGDRO007 on January 07, 2008  |  report this review

This was a pretty sweet game. the controls are the same from Xbox, so i was used to them and they only took like 10-20 minutes to get use to. The game play is pretty good, other than the fact you do a lot of traveling and drive time is long going across the bridges. The movie reels are hard as hell to find and they are everywhere and they could of made it harder for somethings, like taking over rackets and businesses, those were too easy. the weapons were cool. Love the street sweeper. Overall rating 4 out of 5.