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Genre: Action Adventure
Players: 1 Offline, 2-16 Online
Format Played: Xbox 360
Rating: 18
The Review
First off let me say i love the Godfather movies and I loved the first Godfather game, (although both had their flaws but what doesn't these days), as such when i bought Godfather 2 - The Game i expected it to be much the same as the first one but with improvements.
Well it is and it isn't, the game sees you playin the role of Dominic a member of the Corleone family in New York in the 60's. Starting in Cuba in what you might call a flashback sequence you learn all the basic controls including the 'EA Blackhand' fighting controls (More on that later) and of course set up the story where you become the New York Family's new leader (i won't go into to much story detail so that those of you who want to play it don't get upset). As you might imagine the aim of the game is to become a Don big surprise there!!
The controls are logical for the 360 pad, whilst on foot the triggers aim and shoot, A sprints, Y is the action button etc etc, same locical setup is used for driving the triggers accelerate and brake, B is your handbrake and Y gets you in and out of cars. In short the basic controls are the same as every freeroaming 3rd person adventure game under the sun and thats not a bad thing, then we come the 'Blackhand' a fighting control loosley based on the Fight Night series of games (created by EA as well). Basically the left trigger punchs your left hand, right trigger punchs your right hand and if you press them together you will do a grab. The only problem with this that i found was that because you don't 'lock-on' when punching occasionally you would either punch thin air or hit the wrong person which wasn't nescessarily the end of the world ITS JUST DAMN ANNOYING!! (and to be honest it had the same problem in the first game).
A new addition (and a welcome one i think) is 'Don's View', basically you now have the ablity to pay guards to defend your propertys which on its own doesn't sound impressive but it highlights one of the main changes in the game play which is that rival famlies now try to take back their businesses, this doesn't sound like much but it was a major bugbear for me in the first game in that you would take their business and the rivals would never try to take it back or if they did you had to defend it on yur own.
Apart from that there are 2 new additions one is that you get to travel to 3 cities instead of just one which is ok except that the 3 cities combined only make up the same amount of space you had in the 1 city on the first game and you can now recruit new members to your family all with special skills that help you during the main game (ie Demolitions, Arsonist and Bruiser). The only other problem with the game is that ever so occasionally the camera angles are a bit rubbish and you can't see, but it happens rarely.
I enjoyed this game immensely (even if i did complete it in 8hrs) and if you never played the first one it might be even better for you than it was for me, more of the same please EA but for the love of god fix the bugs!
Stars out of Five: 4
Genre: Action Adventure
Players: 1 Offline, 2-16 Online
Format Played: Xbox 360
Rating: 18
The Review
First off let me say i love the Godfather movies and I loved the first Godfather game, (although both had their flaws but what doesn't these days), as such when i bought Godfather 2 - The Game i expected it to be much the same as the first one but with improvements.
Well it is and it isn't, the game sees you playin the role of Dominic a member of the Corleone family in New York in the 60's. Starting in Cuba in what you might call a flashback sequence you learn all the basic controls including the 'EA Blackhand' fighting controls (More on that later) and of course set up the story where you become the New York Family's new leader (i won't go into to much story detail so that those of you who want to play it don't get upset). As you might imagine the aim of the game is to become a Don big surprise there!!
The controls are logical for the 360 pad, whilst on foot the triggers aim and shoot, A sprints, Y is the action button etc etc, same locical setup is used for driving the triggers accelerate and brake, B is your handbrake and Y gets you in and out of cars. In short the basic controls are the same as every freeroaming 3rd person adventure game under the sun and thats not a bad thing, then we come the 'Blackhand' a fighting control loosley based on the Fight Night series of games (created by EA as well). Basically the left trigger punchs your left hand, right trigger punchs your right hand and if you press them together you will do a grab. The only problem with this that i found was that because you don't 'lock-on' when punching occasionally you would either punch thin air or hit the wrong person which wasn't nescessarily the end of the world ITS JUST DAMN ANNOYING!! (and to be honest it had the same problem in the first game).
A new addition (and a welcome one i think) is 'Don's View', basically you now have the ablity to pay guards to defend your propertys which on its own doesn't sound impressive but it highlights one of the main changes in the game play which is that rival famlies now try to take back their businesses, this doesn't sound like much but it was a major bugbear for me in the first game in that you would take their business and the rivals would never try to take it back or if they did you had to defend it on yur own.
Apart from that there are 2 new additions one is that you get to travel to 3 cities instead of just one which is ok except that the 3 cities combined only make up the same amount of space you had in the 1 city on the first game and you can now recruit new members to your family all with special skills that help you during the main game (ie Demolitions, Arsonist and Bruiser). The only other problem with the game is that ever so occasionally the camera angles are a bit rubbish and you can't see, but it happens rarely.
I enjoyed this game immensely (even if i did complete it in 8hrs) and if you never played the first one it might be even better for you than it was for me, more of the same please EA but for the love of god fix the bugs!
Stars out of Five: 4
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