This could be the best mobster game so far
The game is actually about respect , the more people respects you the more cooperative the owners of shops will be with you and it is easier to take a lot of business for your family , however , in the beginning you are just " a new kid " so you must menace the owner to pay protection for you instead for the others family.
the game has got five family , you are with the Corleone family and you must take over the others by cutting down their business by taking warehouses or rackets or other business that involves lots of gunfighting . Gunfights in this game are well done , you can take cover with the wall then when you see an enemie you can shoot him then retake cover. But you can find this quite repetitive , the warehouse looks the same , shops looks the same (example : butcher shops are all the same).
But this wont cut your appetite for the game, for this game has got a very good graphics, the expression on the faces , the New York in the 50's.
the sound of the game is good , the music of the godfather with some new tracks from Bill Conti, voice acting is well done , from Marlon Brando to Robert Duvall, it all fits well for the game (except for Al Pacino who didn't work with this project), the sound of guns , cars ,explosion.....
The game has also something interesting is the "mob face" which is actually a great face design system , you can change the eyes , mouth, hair, give him a scar, or other things.
Now to the game story .The story of your characters actually connects with the godfather movie , it means your character is some kind of an witness for many scenes in the movie like the scene where Luca gets strangulate or the Dons that gets shoots...anyway all those favorite scene from the first Godfather . But , the missions aren't very long , and there is less than twentie missions . But there is also a dozen of hit contracts that you must kill a target in a specific way that are quite fun.
After completing all the mission and contracts you can go "extort" all business , take over all the rackets, or do some bank robberie (don't forget to bribe a cop first , like that ,the cops wont be sending reinforcement to get you) , anyway , you must make all four other family to disappear from new york to become in the Don of New York city but it isn't something interesting because after became the don of nyc you can get unlimited weapon ammo but for what ? since there are any more rival family's who are you gonna shoot ? Pedestrian ?
Anyway you can still get a lot of fun playing this game , there also film reel in the game that you can find them to unlock some film clips , interesting for those who dosn't have got the film.
And now go buy and play this game or if you have already finished it we can wait for a sequel , if there are any.