The Godfather sure is the most under rated game on the 360

User Rating: 9 | The Godfather X360
By vw_Magnum | Review Date:
I don't know why most people ony give this game an 8 out of 10. It's clearly a lot better. After all, there's a huge difference between eight and nine. Anyway, this game is great. It's one of the most fun games I've ever played. Takin' over businesses - that's the best part of the game. All the other missions and activities are also quite well done, except runnin' errands for people. I don't know why but I just don't like 'em. Thankfully there ain't too many of them in the game. You can also hire gang members witch works well. They can be of great help. Too bad they seem to not be able to open doors from time to time. If you move to another room they cant get out of the first one. Although, it always works out fine. If you move too far away from them, they mysteriously pop out behind you. Does it bother me? No, pretty much because you don't get to see 'em appear like some kinda ghost. Like I said, it's always behind you.

The shooting is great. Same thing about the fighting, but it ain't as good as in Indiana Jones and the Emperors Tomb. The different execution styles are pretty good, but only when they involve fire arms. There's also way too hard to discover them all. There's about 40 different ways to execute people but it feels like six or seven.

Anyhow, back to the shooting. It's almost exactly the same as in EA:s recent James Bond games. When it comes to driving you'll discover the same thing. It's all recycled from Bond. I think EA's gettin' lazy. It doesn't really matter that they "ripped off" the shooting. It worked well in Bond and same thing here. Although, too bad I can't say the same about the driving. It did it's job pretty well in Bond because there weren't too many sharp turns on the roads. It this game, on the other hand, It would be real great if the cars would handle corners a bit better. Still, it's pretty ok to drive and it ain't near as bad as in True Crime.

The graphics are good. There's a lot of people on the streets and the draw distance is great. Explosions and fires look amazingly good. Almost like in real life, I swear. The city of New York got some pretty good atmosphere. It's especially nice to walk the streets of Little Italy and New Jersey. Although, you can tell it's not a real next gen-game. It gets kinda blurry from time to time.

So anyway, don't bother about for these small cons. The Godfather is a great game. It takes about 50 hrs to complete and might be the best game on the 360...except for Oblivion of course.

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