With The Godfather II, Electronic Arts hopes that you'll think like a don. Loosely based on events from the popular film, this enjoyable video game casts you as a Corleone thug who eventually takes control of both New York and Miami. Success hinges on your ability to not only shake down business owners, but also hire the right men for the job. Goons have unique abilities (fence cutting, safe cracking, demolitions) that prove useful in a fight, and you always have the option to promote or whack them, depending on what's best for business. Grand Theft Auto inspired gameplay lets you carjack vehicles, while a unique Don's View provides a helpful top-down look at an entire city, displaying businesses under your control and attacked by rivals. Overall, it's a fun single player adventure with an equally entertaining multiplayer mode full of 16 player death matches. Although its graphics look dated, monotony quickly sets in as shooting the same bad guys and completing similar missions gets old. That said, The Godfather II makes for an ideal weekend rental .
On the eve of Mafia III, it's a good time to recall this diamond in the rough. Yes, seriously. It was great.
Kotaku: "When an industry is made-up of almost equal parts society-changing brilliance and playboy man-child syndrome, it's bound to generate some exceptionally stupid ideas."
That's not racism in the Netherlands. As a matter of fact, the black and white thing is a product of good old American stupidity, save for a few parts of Africa....
The LBP thing wasn't funny. It was actually pretty stupid. You know what? Most of this list was not funny.
How about that time EA staged a boycott of Dante's Inferno and got caught?
Or that whole Wii Music thing a few E3s ago.
Or, you know...something that's actually funny?
Anyway...the whole thing was 3 Sony screw ups and 2 EA. I'd hardly call that the video game industry...
Another well written and smart article trying anything to get some hit. I can think of many other thing that are actually funny like the Riiiiiiiidge racer one or even the Ms e3 puncho and their presentation of skittle ( shudder ) .
wow, who knew events like that happened O_O that event with the bloody dead goat was the craziest of em all.
The Godfather II is a film classic, but does the game of the same name live up to its namesake? The Godfather II, published by EA in 2009 is an open world third person crime action shooter with a mix of strategy elements.
