The Godfather II
by Electronic Arts
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Product Summary
Brand: Electronic ArtsAudio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Published: 2009-04
Release Date: 2009-04-07
Platform: PlayStation 3
Model: 15456
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Product features:
- Relive the greatest moments from "The Godfather II" in an open-world action experience inspired by the movie.
- Act like a mobster to command respect, intimidating and extorting business owners and rival families with devastating new attacks and executions.
- Recruit, develop, and promote members of your crime family. Recruit your friends to join your family and take them into battle online to find out who is the Don of Dons.
- Bring up to three crew members along on jobs, including an arsonist, demolitions expert, safecracker, and more. Command their actions in battle and unleash their specialties on your enemies.
- Be a true Don as you coordinate all the action using a 3D world map: survey your turf, place defenses on businesses, analyze crime patterns, identify new illicit racket monopolies, and choose the target of your next attack.
Video Game Reviews of The Godfather II
Customer Review: Finally!!! A sandbox without the kiddie stuff
Summary: 4 Stars
Are you a casual gamer fed up with all the kiddie collecting,jumping,racing,taxi driving,vigilante missions,fight club, etc, etc etc? For all of us that have to download a gamesave with all the nonsense filler missions completed, just to play the good stuff of the main storyline, this game is for you, all crime, no evil knevil kiddie nonsense. All sandbox makers could learn from this game especially the GTA Series, Saints Row, True Crime, Scarface, Mafia Ive played them all.
Pros.
1) 1st Time ever in a sandbox, Godfather II lets you create a custom crew with up to 3 smart AI characters (not idiots like Saints Row II and San Andreas) that can play all missions alongside you, infact you need them for certain situations.
2) 1st sandbox to cut all the non crime kiddie stuff out of it.
3) 1st sandbox, that is straight forward and easy enough for a true casual gamer, I beat this game with no cheats, all the games above, were too hard for me.
4) NO shooting and driving missions, absolute NONE, which is SO annoying, its hard enough to chase somebody in sandboxes, but its worse trying to shoot and drive at the same time.
5) NO Timer missions, all the sandboxes above love the timer, there is no timer in real life it all takes as long as it takes, I hate timer missions and I bet many others are sick of them also. The only time you worry about a timer in this game is when your demolitions man is blowing a compound and you have to run for your life which is what a real person would do.
6) NO substitute or take away your weapons just to force you to use a less powerful weapon like a sword or bat or sneak attack, this game lets you use any weapon you have in every mission except the Castro mission when you are stripped of your good weapons and crew temporarily.
7) NO stupid collectibles, I guess the safes are considered collectibles having to find them all, but other then that no stupid hunts for non crime related garbage.
8) Control of your character is natural, simple, not overly complex, No pushing a button then pushing the analog digital stick to left or right, absolutely way too much overkill, your character just blocks and looks like a idiot while the enemy pummels you. Forced me to use a gun through almost all of GTA IV and Saints Row II. As far as im concerned the sandbox controls where perfected by Rockstar Games in San Andreas those controls are the best ever.
9) No driving missions, I don't know what it is, but all the above games, have excessive driving, Games like Mafia might as well be called "The Mafia Driver" , since every single mission seems to involve 5 to 10 minutes of driving, over 60% of Mafia is driving it outweighs the crime action by far.
10) Ammo is available, freely, just go to your hideout or grab your dead enemies ammo. In Saints Row II, 95% of all income I made went into buying ammo, I never had any to spend until the end. The missions pay you a lousy 2k, your Ammo cost was near 7 or 9K each mission it makes no sense. This game you never pay for Ammo ever.
11) Numbered Enemys, Ive never seen this in a sandbox either, when you attack a gang in this game, it tells you how many enemies are on site, unlike other games that have computer generated infinity supply of enemys. Once they die the number goes down. If more appear its because they called for backup just like real life. If your smart bring a engineer to cut the power before a attack and that number never grows so much funner to do when I know how many enemy's im facing.
12) No more "Me Against The World" tactics, every crime game suffers from this until now, Godfather II finally got it right, no criminal empire fights alone, You can have a full 3 characters through 90% of the game. you can also have 4 extra characters to do odd jobs but mostly to protect your business when under attack. yes you heard me right, no longer do you have to be like scarface running to attacked business after business, you can send your men, and soon your capos, towards the end of the game, I send both capos and my 4th crew member on all attacks by rival gangs, and they always took care of it without me having to drive over and defend it myself, I could keep on doing what I was doing without missing a beat since usually I was in the middle of a battle myself and couldn't just leave. I totally love this, it took too long for somebody to invent it. Im so tired of Me against the world, If im playing a gang game, where the hell is my gang? In Mafia you never see a gang until the end when they try to kill you, same with Mafia II, Same with Vice City, San Andreas, Saints Row, Scarface.
13) Realistic, simple as that, Criminals don't do taxi driving, or vigilante missions, or stunt jumps, they rob banks, take turf, shootouts, fights, stay alive and grow powerful and rich they don't do fake respect nonsense of Saints Row II. If you want what should be rated as 13 kiddie stuff play Saints Row II, if you want pure strategy and real mafia battle play Godfather II, which earns the rated M. Saints Row is hilarious, but its mostly childs play, this game is battle fight or lose power and money period, if you do nothing you lose it all. Saints Row II and San Andreas, I couldn't help feeling maybe my gang members are such idiots because they drive taxis all day or do stunt jumps or collecting clamshells or drawing in the lines spraying tags rather then killing.
14) No special enemy health meters, im so sick of this old Nintendo throwback, I remember this from playing too much megaman, it was fun back in those days, but now its annoying and boring, no enemy has a health meter, they die just like anybody else. Godfather does make it harder to kill crew and capos of your enemy's but your crew is just as hard to kill. The leaders are nothing special in this game. Finally, im so bored with the head enemy special indestructible powers of fake world.
15) Health regeneration, this is common in most games today, but the depleting permanent health meter, is very annoying, and eating to replenish it is not as good, I like the hunger San Andreas introduced to make you eat occasionally, but in battle where no food is available, its much better to seek shelter and hide while your health comes back.
16) Once your enemys are dead they stay dead, I didn't make it out of a compound in time and died, but to my surprise when I got out of the hospital I didn't have to start all over like every sandbox above, all I had to do was rebomb the place and get out alive to pass it. Same with turf once you kill off the protectors but screwed up on the owner of the business you can come back a day later and all the defenders will still be dead and you can try again on the owner without having the war again, very very realistic. Unlike all sandboxes above that if you die, your starting all over or from a checkpoint.
17) Awesome favors, police bribes, bomb rebuilding favors, fast recovery, great concept usually forced on you in other games as part of the main mission, optional but very nice to have earned or bought. Loved this feature.
CONS:
1) Terrible Sandbox world, only sandbox in the fact that you have the freedom to come and go as you choose, but usually there is only 1 way of coming and going, I felt like a mouse in a maze almost 80% of the time. The world is tiny compared to GTA this might compare to Vice City map. Florida was bigger, New York felt like a 1 neighborhood, cuba was just a obstacle course. The world sucks, felt like a 1st person shooter, looks open but you find out fast your walled in everywhere. The construction sites drove me nutz, I still can't believe I found my way out of them. Not much of a improvement from Godfather 1.
2) Maybe 20 different automobiles in the entire game, I hate doing missions with cars in these games, but I do like outrunning the cops for fun, having one to jack when im on foot, its nice to personalize them like in San Andreas, Saints Row II and Mafia II and True Crime NYC.
3) Can't skip cutescenes, your forced to watch them, I always watch them the first time, but the second time, id rather skip through them since I know what I need to do.
4) Nothing to do when the game is beaten, most sandboxes suffer from this, so far only San Andreas, has action after its done and True Crime NYC. I wish all these sandboxes would have gang attacks after you beat the game so you can just play protect your turf and empire after the game is beat.
5) Terrible Godfather story, this game is not as corny as Godfather 1, they did away with copying the movie scene per scene, this only includes a few major scenes like the cake scene in cuba with roth, the extremely exaggerated escape from cuba and the shooting of fredo scene, other then that its altered and original from the movie. Michael is a total disappointment, he looks nothing like him in either game Godfather 1 or 2 and the voice is terrible, Scarface did it perfect so it could have been possible but they didnt for some reason. The gangs look like beatnik gangs from the 60's no suits, tacky haircuts just didn't look like gangsters at all.
6) Wish there was a driver crew member to hire, also wish I could send a bomber to bomb a compound to weaken it before I attack it, You can send a bomber to do a business but not a compound. I also wish I had more men at my disposal for compound attacks.
In summary this game is a keeper, and it brings many 1st's to the boring repetitive sandbox world. They didn't just copy the GTA Series like Scarface,True Crime,Saints Row,Mafia. They went beyond GTA in functionality. I kept San Andreas, True Crime NYC, Scarface, got rid of GTA III, Vice City, GTA IV, Godfather 1,Mafia 1 and 2, Saints Row II and Gun.
I don't buy a sandbox game for the story, I buy it for "Virtual Reality" and I bet im not alone, who cares what the story is, I didn't need to play the story to enjoy San Andreas, I didn't need to play the story to enjoy True Crime NYC, Both games are better when they are done just play the virtual reality aspect at 100% completion thats what a good sandbox is about. This game was perfect it was challenging but not impossible your not playing a stupid mission like "Veteran Child" in Saints Row II 60 times because its way too difficult even on the easiest setting. Not all of us have 10 hours a day everyday to play games, im tired of games way too difficult they are beyond fun anymore, its not a game its painful and annoying and seriously make me wonder why I bought it in the first place. I want virtual reality in a sandbox, I want to do the bad stuff Id never do in real life in that world. Most sandbox developers miss this point altogether, skip the story.
I want a huge battle world with multiple gangs are fighting for the top, and I want it to be as close to real as possible. This game delivers, skip answering the phone calls, and progressing in the story, I want to sneak up and take that other mafias turf with my crew, pure pleasure to me, just battling the 4 gangs in this game and destroying there compounds was the best part of this game. I can play this over and over and never get bored with it. Give it a shot, I bet you will smile, yeah the world aint so hot, and it definitely doesn't feel like its utilizing all the PS3 technology but its a step in the right direction, free of kiddie nonsense, free of timers, free of driving and shooting and most annoying aspects of all sandboxes before. Its a Keeper, casual gamers and mafia fans will love this all the fighting none of the driving and nonsense.
I love it, if they make a Godfather 3 and it improves the cons, keeps the pros, Im buying it again.
Description of The Godfather II
On the eve of the Cuban revolution, a major mob meeting in Havana takes a bloody turn. The Don of your family is killed, and you must take the reigns and lead your battered organization. Success breeds opportunity, so when Michael Corleone comes under investigation by a Senate Committee on Organized Crime, the Corleone Family calls upon you to reestablish its operation in New York and expand into a new territory -- Miami. Build up your arsenal, build alliances, and make whatever deals you need to as you fight off attacks and strike back at your rivals. There?ll be a price on your head and a target on your back, but don?t take it personally. After all, it?s only business.Inspired by the events of the classic film of the same name, in The Godfather II players take on the role of Dominic Corleone, a little-known member of the Corleone crime family tasked with rebuilding the once dominant, but now faltering Mafia empire. Set in an open-world gameplay universe full of dangers and opportunities, players must maintain and develop the Corleone crime family's resources using every and all means available if they hope in the end to prevail in the ultimate challenge, to act like a mobster, but think like a Don.
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On the eve of the Cuban revolution, a major mob meeting in Havana takes a bloody turn. The Don of your family is killed in Cuba, leaving it to you to take the reigns and lead your battered organization and reestablish the Corleone powerbase in Queens. Success breeds opportunity: after you've proven you have the chops to run a top-tier crime organization, Hyman Roth invites you to expand and support him in South Florida. Do you accept his offer or do you remain loyal to the Corleones? Things get even more complicated when Michael Corleone comes under investigation by a Senate Committee on Organized Crime, and you're tapped to run the Family with support from Tom Hagen. Whatever decisions you make, you must build up your arsenal, command your crew, and establish and maintain power... or face the consequences. Stack your pockets with favors from those in positions of influence as you fight off attacks and strike back at your rivals. As the Godfather there will be a price on your head and a target on your back, but don't take it personally. After all, it's only business. The Don's View
Be a true Don as you coordinate all the action using a 3D world map: survey your turf, place defenses on businesses, analyze crime patterns, identify new illicit rackets, and choose the target of your next attack. As the Don of a family, there are a ton of strategic choices to make in The Godfather 2. Just one example are Monopolies. Monopolies are groupings of rackets that "run" the same criminal activity. Controlling, and defending a monopoly comes with both a monetary bonus and game perk benefits making them key to owning the map, gaining wealth and amassing power. Monopolies can be local to one city or span across the cities. Larger monopolies made up of many targets, spanning multiple cities are obviously more difficult but offer greater rewards. Other in-game rackets include: Fronts - extortable legitimate businesses of the game that provide payouts as well as money laundering opportunities; and Small, Medium and Large Rackets - venues containing an illegal criminal activity and usually disguised as legitimate businesses. These three require various degrees of muscle to defend and keep under your control. Key Game Features:
- Build Your Family - Recruit, develop, and promote members of your crime family.
- Command a Crew - Bring up to three crew members along on jobs, including an arsonist, demolitions expert, safecracker, and more. Command their actions in battle and unleash their specialties on your enemies.
- The Don's View - Be a true Don as you coordinate all the action using a 3D world map: survey your turf, place defenses on businesses, analyze crime patterns, identify new illicit racket monopolies, and choose the target of your next attack.
- Blackhand Brutality - Act like a mobster to command respect, intimidating and extorting business owners and rival families with devastating new attacks and executions.
- Bring Your Family Online - Recruit your friends to join your family and take them into battle online to find out who is the Don of Dons.
- 'It's Only Business' - Relive the greatest moments from The Godfather II in an open-world action experience inspired by the movie.
There are six ranks within each family, starting with the Don. As the Don you will have a right hand man, your Consigliere Tom Hagen, who will teach you the ropes and advise you on how to take down the other families. The rest of your family is comprised of an Underboss, Capos, Soldiers and Associates. These are the men who guard your interests and follow your orders without question. Members of your family within these ranks, known as Made Men, possess exclusive skills and specialties that can be taken into battle. Direct them wisely and upgrade them to develop their specialties and increase the power of your organization. But beware. Each rival family has it?s own family tree as well. Learning how to hunt down and permanently eliminate their Made Men will be critical to your success. Take Your Family Online in Multiplayer Modes
Play The Godfather II online multiplayer modes and become the true Don of Dons. Take your money, weapons, and crew from your singleplayer experience online and wage mob warfare against players around the world. Play as one of your family?s Made Men and put your best strategies to the test as you battle for riches and honors that transfer back and forth between your singleplayer campaign. Some available modes include: Fire Starter Game Mode - Arsonist crew members attempt to destroy as much as possible in a race to reach the scoring limit. Safe Cracker Mode - Safe cracker crew members attempt to find safes throughout the map. Cracking them earns your team points and money. Demolition Assault Mode - Use your demolitions specialty to destroy the enemy?s three assault points. Team Deathmatch - The bloodiest mode and so not for the squeamish. Team with most kills wins.
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