Rough Diamond
As Godfather is 3rd person shooter where you are free to do whatever you want , I just can't resist to compare it with the best games in this genre (Mafia and GTA ) . In Godfather you have much more freedom than in mafia , but not as much as in GTA SA , but EA made very good job in developing all the random stuff - business takeover , interrogation system , hit contracts , but all the takeover stuff gets boring , because it's always the same , all warehouses are identical , even the bad guys acts the same , so in the end I started to miss something new .
i like the shooting and fighting system , it's really something new , but i think it's to many buttons you have to use in fighting , it takes time to get used to it .
There is one thing , I like the most - it's explosions , fire and explosion effects are very impressive , And other thing , I like very much , is that cops shoots to the bad guys , not only to you , Godfather is the first game they made this work .
As I am a Godfather movie fan , I can say that they made a great use of license of the movie , I love the storyline and the original music playing all the time , made me feel like in a real Godfather movie .
But there comes the bad part.
First thing I noticed is the cars and driving . carmodels looks awful , especially when you damage it ( it's so far from Mafia , in this regard , it's out of hearing ) windshields are full reflective , car handling is stupid , there is no model names , speedometer , and furthermore , you can count all models on your fingers . it seems like they did this part of game against the clock , and it came out very crappy .
the worst is that everything disappears - bodies , exploded cars , everything you hit with the car , that's very sad .
AI is very solid , but sometimes it becomes very stupid and glitchy , there are only few faces , human models , you can also count on fingers . graphics are not that sharp as in Mafia , sometimes it comes glitchy to , city is pretty big , but there is no free space ( mountains , fields ) as in GTA , everything is closed . you can't fly , you can't swim ( you can't even reach the water ) you can't even jump . And the game is way to short . so there is to much minuses and glitches in this game to be one of the greatest , I think this game was released to early , undeveloped as it could be , but the good thing is that there is huge chances to see soon Godfather 2 , or even Godfather 3 ( there are three godfather movies right ? ) , so i hope they will fix all bad things , all glitches and bugs and make this rough diamond shine .