DONT LISTEN TO PEOPLE GIVING LESS THAN 7 FOR THIS GAME.
Now i have played Mafia , good game. I have played GTA all of them great games.GodFAther is a good game in its own right.From the start i was impressed with the create a character screen and spent some time making my mobster the clothing couldve been more varied but no big deal your a mobster and should be in suits or sports jackets anyways.
Now i want to start with some bad points first. The driving and cars couldve been much better you cant even shoot out of your cars i was disappionted about that. and only a couple of car models.And you have no garage to speak of and you cant buy cars only steal them or take the one from your original safehouse. So in this point Mafia is better with vehicles much better.
you will have alot of money but with nothing to do with it after you buy the safehouses there is no real need for money. maybe a minigame in some of the rackets wouldve been nice, gambling,horse track ,whateva. Or even like sitting down and getting a bite to eat in the restaurant you just extorted.
Getting around can be kinda tedious the map screen shouldve been able to see without pausing the game or even a Need For Speed GPS type of thing.
The interiors of biulding couldve been more varied and the NPCs also.
Now the good The face animations are excellent best faces i have seen since Mafia...... even better.
The gun play is awesome way better than mafia ( with the exceptions of car)destructable objects that the ai hides behind can be cut down with gunfire to expose them this is a first for me in this type of game usually you cant do that ,it is very very satisfying .you can disarm, kneecap poeple. I like that fact when im behind cover my guy automatically will peek up when i fire no extra buttons the wall cover is used nice also.
The executions ohh boy i must be sadistic but you have 22 different ways of finishing someone maybe more if you get creative.I really love the hardhead and traffic accidents ones.
The random violence esp when a mob war is going on. there was on time i had a war with the tags andi was buying some merchandise from theblack market guy. all of a sudden a car hit me from behind almost killing me the tags AMBUSHED ME! they turned around one of them hanging out the car to finish me off with his tommy luckily i was near my apartment and my boys helped me out or i was toast, another time i was ambushed at a park they moved in behind the cover of bushes i must may the ai is pretty good. there are some quirks like sometimes they will pull a gun but if you dont pull yours and duke it out they usually wont shoot .
The story is good i think some of the cut scenes of the movies couldve been done more artistic. I think the story suffers alittle because you feel more like a renegade mobster than one of the fam. its kinda wierd even tough you work for the corleones more couldve been done to make you feel a part of it like taking mobsters with you to extort or take down warehouses and hub or even recruiting them and driving with them esp when you have alot of respect like GTA SA.
The sound is very good esp the characters from the movie. THe sound track is ok the tracks from the movie are great of course it the godfather but tracks that are not from the movies area mix lot.
The game is pretty lenghty this could be a good or bad thing all how you feel about taking over all NYC and becoming don. I have alot of fun taking over warehouses and hubs so i liked it , have not completed the game but i know i not going to get bored of killing :).
Graphics on a whole are good not great. The most notables being the faces and the explosions esp when glass is flying everywhere. Just plant a bomb in the first floor of a rival gangs little store front and watch the carnage.Hell explosions will knock you down if your too close shocking you.
replay value not high at all unless you want to look for all fo those hidden reels of films the map is just too damn big for to worry about that i have found some but i saw the movie and have it on dvd so noo big deal for me to find the reels
all in all a very good game couldve used some more polish in a few key areas and you cant but help to say this gamecouldve been way better with this or that. but as is its still good and that is saying something. Alot of game can learn from the combat system used in godfather