The Godfather II Comments by Kristan Reed

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swede

07-Apr-09 10:10:05

What have they done to my Santino?

/Right off to read the review now

Kill_Crazy

07-Apr-09 10:10:31

I hope Mafia 2 is better then.

Petulant_Radish

07-Apr-09 10:13:38

Va funcuolo Dio and tutte e santi

menage

07-Apr-09 10:14:10

Argh, EA, don't fall back. I need Dead Space 2 to be awesome.

metalangel

07-Apr-09 10:15:48

As I feared, another travesty and will be forgotten when Mafia 2 comes out. Still, I suppose it could be funny to send all your guys to attack something and then just cruise by in your car to see how it's going.

roz123

07-Apr-09 10:19:05

If anything in life is certain. if history has taught us anything, it is that ea can fuck anything up

Benno

07-Apr-09 10:19:39

damn

Darren

07-Apr-09 10:20:55

Haha... after seeing those early screenshots and more recent video footage I just knew this game was going to be baaaaaaaad. Shame really because despite the flaws, the original was quite fun on the 360 but, as I said in the forum, it didn't have much competition back then when it was released. This game sounds like another lazy, soulless EA cash-in me.

Is it just me or is anyone else relishing this recent run of mediocre or worst games? It's certainly keeping my wallet happy? :)

Ceatlan

07-Apr-09 10:24:19

I bet this sells more than either Dead Space or Mirrors Edge though, and provides ammo for the accountants inside EA to go back to the old ways.

Even though I personally didn't like either Dead Space or Mirrors Edge I could definitely see the quality improvements that EA had made and applauded them for it and the risk associated with trying to create new franchises.

Edited time(s), most recently by Ceatlan at 10:24 on 07/04/2009

Benno

07-Apr-09 10:25:46

oh and lol @ roz hehe

AphoticCosmos

07-Apr-09 10:27:34

So which EA exec gets a horse head in his bed tomorrow?

RedSparrows

07-Apr-09 10:28:27

But there's adverts for GFII on the EG homepage! That means EG are being paid to give games...shit scores!

OH NOES!

anyway

Oh well. Won't be mildly tempted by this when it's �10, as I might (not) have been done anyway.

Paleface

07-Apr-09 10:29:56

I'm still reeling from Tom Chick's commentary on the game:

The first Godfather game had a stealth mission in which you sneaked into the Hollywood producer's house and put the horse's head under his covers. You might expect that in The Godfather II, you have to sneak out onto Lake Tahoe to assassinate Fredo. Close. Instead, you have to sneak into Cuba to garrote a bunch of soldiers whose backs are conveniently turned and then you assassinate Fidel Castro. I did not make that up.

(Spoilered for the fact it is, but it's hilarious/ludicrous all at once).

07-Apr-09 10:33:09

O_O

Benno

07-Apr-09 10:33:32

wow thats insane

Thirith

07-Apr-09 10:33:43

How well (or not) is this embedded in the Godfather story and universe? From the review, it sounds like it might just as well not be a Godfather game and that the title is pretty much there only to make more people buy the game.

figaro7

07-Apr-09 10:34:10

Hang on, i remember reading a glowing hands on from this game a few months on here? what happened?

DUFFMAN5

07-Apr-09 10:35:41

Bollox!
Play are already "packing" mine. Oh well I loved Two Worlds and I think that got a 3.

Benno

07-Apr-09 10:42:07

all of EG previews are glowing, even when the games are shit

I dont really understand it

PlugMonkey

07-Apr-09 10:43:25

But this being mid-decade, it was inevitably ruined by some of the worst excesses of cut-and-paste sandbox design: incessant, brain-numbing repetition, needless padding and tedious map-spanning driving.

I'm confused. Given the Far Cry 2 score EG doled out, I assumed you guys were all about incessant, brain-numbing repetition, needless padding and tedious map-spanning driving.

ChthonicEcho

07-Apr-09 10:47:21

As good as the first Mafia game, then? I'll definitely pick this up!

muscleblade

07-Apr-09 10:48:41

"all of EG previews are glowing, even when the games are shit
I dont really understand it "

All previews is positive as a general rule. The developers dont want to give out previews if the magazines and internet sites give negative previews. IGNs previews are the worst. They are always very postive even if the game later on gets butchered in the review. This is why i stopped taking previews seriously. One of the most negative previews i can remember on this site was for Fallout 3 actually. The game got 10/10 LOL.

Santino

07-Apr-09 10:51:44

i still can't get over the fact they have made the godfather into a 3rd person action type game series, as others have said, bring on Mafia 2.

fcpthebest

07-Apr-09 11:01:35

The previews alert your interest for the game, it is so obvious.
What I find strange on the review is that it says that the game is repetitive, but far cry2 was too and received a 8.

Don�t you think that they were giving some money?

henza

07-Apr-09 11:04:34

And what about the bizarro mission to kill Fidel Castro?! The real Fidel Castro! And the fact that you have to smash up YOUR OWN businesses to do favours for people. It's a terrible game.

krudster [mod]

07-Apr-09 11:12:48

Yes, quite. The Castro mission was comedy gold, and you're right, smashing up your own businesses to win favours with people is beyond retarded.

MyPointIs

07-Apr-09 11:14:12

The problem is that in big companies like EA, there's so much noise that they don't even trust their own designers. Leaving instead the game direction to the fucktards user testing the game.

zisssou

07-Apr-09 11:20:52

i dont know about the rest of you but this game actually looks quite fun.

menage

07-Apr-09 11:30:41

Farcry 2 at least played a decent game when it got it right.

George Roper

07-Apr-09 11:38:51

This had fail written all over it, from an early point.

NeoVDR

07-Apr-09 11:50:04

Guys don't be too quick to dismiss this game. I managed to get a copy Friday and I have just completed the game. I can tell you that I found the game quite good. If you want to experience the life of a mobster, that is as close as you can get until Mafia 2 comes out. I can't understand the negativity of this reviewer. Mafia works by taking over rackets and killing your opposition so it's bad that you get to do that in the game? Also most of the ways you kill the rival wiseguys are really fun and gory, quite fitting for a guy that has just taken from you a couple of rackets. Rent it first and if you get hooked, there you have it.

Edited time(s), most recently by NeoVDR at 11:50 on 07/04/2009

Monkey_Puncher

07-Apr-09 11:50:50

Sounds great!

muscleblade

07-Apr-09 11:56:26

With a metacritic average of 77% including the 40% from Eurogamer dragging it down quite a bit i would say this review might be way too harsh.

konnsky

07-Apr-09 12:02:44

ZOINKS!

NeoVDR

07-Apr-09 12:03:36

I am starting to think that EG is so desperate to show integrity and objectivity that it ends up being harsh

hiddenranbir

07-Apr-09 12:13:37

Waiting for Mafia 2, obv. ;)

Don't attract the law(speeding) when you go commit murder!

skillian

07-Apr-09 12:16:59

As good as Mafia then (4/10)?

;)

But seriously, this sounds like a horrible game even before you consider the license. With the name "The Godfather" attached, it's a game that would be better had it never been made at all.

Rirekon

07-Apr-09 12:17:59

Spot the developers in this thread heh

BBIAJ

07-Apr-09 12:19:21

You know, it's really starting to grind my gears how EG big something up in their hands-ons and previews, then absolutely slaughter the game come review time.

You're not making the decisions as to what's actually worth pre-ordering any easier you know EG!

jim1975

07-Apr-09 12:28:12

now. when do we get a goodfella's game. i mean they made a fuckin goodfella's pizza but no fuckin game.

krudster [mod]

07-Apr-09 12:30:25

Preview showings always show the game in its best light - you can't blame journos for reporting what's shown. The game DOES have some neat ideas; they just don't particularly work in the long term.

WoodyBE

07-Apr-09 12:36:22

Ouch, that doesn't sound good. Was going to get it for a friend of mine but I'll have to look for something else now... Good marketing on this game though, loved the videos and the previews, had me completely sold!

And GamePro gave it 100/100, how do you explain that EG ! ;-)

baalzek

07-Apr-09 12:44:58

Playing it and loving, just like the first game with more features. another failure review EG.

Vin

07-Apr-09 12:55:27

The franchise was doomed from the moment Coppola shit on the idea.

the_dudefather

07-Apr-09 13:08:04

Fallout 3 got a pretty harsh preview from what I remember, put me off the game for a while

Ghost5786

07-Apr-09 13:26:22

It's weird because as I was reading through this review I was constantly asking myself the question, Why isn't this fun? I'd really be curious to get this game when it goes down in price for the PC, because some of the ideas in there I think are pretty good.

bad09

07-Apr-09 13:26:35

Hmmm, I though this looked quite fun on Plyr, it convinced me to give it a go....

samk

07-Apr-09 13:29:33

"Spot the developers in this thread heh"

Indeed. But given how bad their game evidently is judging by the review, it's no real surprise that the devs would do something as retarded as register new accounts to post in this one thread, and think nobody would notice...

drxym

07-Apr-09 13:31:39

The first Godfather game was repetitive, mindless and just an insult to its source. A simple example of how cretinous the game is - in the movie Paulie is shot in the back of the head but in the game you must chase him through a maze as he throws bombs at you. It's just that dumb and not even redeemed by the game world which is huge and completely devoid of anything to do. You can't even climb, or step over a 1 foot lawn fence.

I would have hoped EA would lose their licence or at least try better this time. Seems like they couldn't even be bothered with that. I hope Mafia II makes up for this travesty. The first Mafia was a great game and it didn't need to piss on the reputation of a movie to be awesome either. EA you suck.

Darren

07-Apr-09 13:35:41

@muscleblade - "With a metacritic average of 77% including the 40% from Eurogamer dragging it down quite a bit i would say this review might be way too harsh."

Edge UK magazine gave the game 6/10 if that's any help and if I was a betting man I'd say that the average score will probably hover around that mark once all the reviews are out. Early reviews are always a bit suspicious anyway, I'm never really sure whether they get a higher score because the site or magazine got to review it early as an exclusive or whatever.