tinyE: A little rough around the edges but a good time for any fans of the movie.
Ancient-Red-Dragon: I also own it on disc. It's not bad, but it's not good either. It's highly mediocre.
And it definitely suffers from open-world-itis: the vast majority of the gameplay consists of fighting the same few copy & pasted enemies within the same few copy & pasted buildings (although the map 'pretends' they are all different building) over & over again endlessly.
And the protagonist who you play as has no personality whatsoever and IIRC he doesn't even talk, so he feels like a generic robot and not an actual person.
Games like Mafia 1 are vastly superior because they don't have any of those problems.
Problem is that "Godfather" is just another GTA III clone.
The GOdfather is one of my favorite movies, and I really looked forward to the game, and was dissapointed when it came out.
I would have preferred a out and out strategy game on the topic.
I don't get why people call the game Excellent. It's just OK. I guess it;s love of the source material. i love the source material too but don't fall in love with anything wiht themagic words Godfather on it.
"Mafia" was a much better game. Yeah, it;s a GTA clone, but IMHO much better exeuted then "The Godfather".
Breja: I'm still baffled by the fact that something like The Godfather: The Video Game actually happened. It's sort of like that Hamlet wtih Schwarzenegger, something you'd see a poster of as a joke in some movie, but this actually exists.
I don' t have a high opinion of the "Godfather" game, but disagree that you cannot make a good game from the novel and the movie. The mistake was going into the direction of an action game, rather then a strategy game.