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The Godfather


A great (if repetitive) car-crime game that immerses you in the movie's 1940s gangster drama.

Available on: Xbox , PS2, PC, Xbox 360
Genre: Action
Release date: Mar 21, 2006
Published by: Electronic Arts
Developed by: EA Redwood Shores
Features: Dolby Digital 5.1
8 GREAT
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If you ever need proof that video games are a powerful educational tool, look no further than The Godfather. After a week with this Grand Theft Auto-like gangster simulator, you'll know more about the movie than most film students. You'll know the name of the guy who gets shot in the "leave the gun, take the cannoli" scene. You'll know the order in which Michael Corleone's enemies get whacked during the climactic revenge montage. You'll know this, because you'll have done it all ...
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While it's ostensibly a crime movie, The Godfather seems a weird choice for a video-game adaptation. There's violence, sure, but it's far outweighed in screen time by ruminations on familial responsibility, weddings, funerals, grouchy conversations in poorly lit rooms and boiling pots of pasta. That's probably why EA chose to make its version of The Godfather about the Mafia's foot soldiers instead of its stuffy, slow-moving generals. Opening in 1945, the Godfather game follows the plot of the ...   » Read Full The Godfather preview
The Godfather
We wreak havoc in EA's recreation of mob-ruled 1940s New York
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Few movie-to-game adaptations have garnered as much attention and speculation as EA's take on The Godfather, which finally hits stores later this month. Casting players as a random wiseguy in the Corleone crime family, it combines free-form, Grand Theft Auto-style gameplay with a plot that follows the epic Mafia film from behind the scenes. We've spent some hard time with this gangland simulation, and we can say that the driving feels great, the violence is intense, the story is riveting and ...   » Read Full The Godfather preview
ESRB Rating
The Godfather is rated:
Mature
Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language, Suggestive Themes
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