The Godfather II

I have to say I came onto this site having finished this game expecting to see mainly 4-5 stars and just wanted to add my praise so you can imagine I was quite surprised to see it has had quite a few negative reviews.

I thought the game was superb. The new Dons view was brilliant and really made you feel like you were actually running a crime business instead of just going round shooting people.

The first night I played on this, I thought I had been playing for an hour and I was so engrossed in it, that I had actually been playing on it for 3 hours.

The side missions and favours to earn money and upgrade your men are really fun. Graphically solid, the story was also very interesting and left you feeling tense and excited.

My only gripe was that it is a little bit easy. The gun fights are hard to lose and when you die, one of your medics usually revives you and then you just take cover and your health renews. I definitely would have given it 5 stars if it was a little bit more challenging.

But overall a brilliant game which I was so engrossed in, I was having 2-3 hour sessions wheras usually I spend up to an hour max on the playstation a day.

I know a lot of people are on the fence about buying this, i hope my review helps you.

If you liked the first Godfather game you will like this too, no question. The gameplay remains the same, with some new features:

* Better graphics
* More weapons
* Your own family (crew members follow you & help out)
* 3 Places to conquer (New York, Florida and Cuba)
* Dons View
* Challenges (Cracking safes, execution styles)
* Bonuses (Bulletproof vests, armored cars)

The game has a good balance of action like shooting, executing people, driving, as well as the strategic stuff like taking over businesses, earning favours (call off police, put rival family members in jail), guarding businesses, making money, upgrading your family.

A few disadvantages are that the game does have some bugs, things like your crew struggling to get into your car sometimes or dumb AI. These dont impact the gameplay a whole lot, but are there -- hopefully the game will be patched in an update.

The reviews by places like IGN and Gamespot who totally murdered this game are over reacting i think, they called it 'unfinished' and to avoid it at all costs, but this is their opinion.

So if you are on the fence about getting it, just ask yourself if you liked the original, or have bought games in the past which were rated low and you ended up enjoying them alot (Assassins creed comes to mind for me).

Godfather 2 isnt an amazing game, but it is a lot of fun.

As we all now this game is the secound and final installment of the godfather game, at first i was sceptical due to various negative reviews, but this game is way underated.

It adds many great features from its PS2 predecessor:

- Somewhat better graphics

- Building and upgrading your family and bussiness (i.e, your crew)

- The Don's View (an ingame map that allows you to manage your criminal empire)

- The diversity to conquer Miami and Cuba as well as New York

At first the game seems very repetitive and the opening could have captivated you a bit better, after creating your ideal mobster at first the game is quite linear however once you get out and about and throughout the story the various features are unlocked, then yeah, the game becomes a lot of fun, the feature that excited me most was having the ability of choosing your family members. This involves recruiting promising associates into your family each with a designated skill-set, for example a medic, or a arsonist, the medic of course can heal you when you're downed in a fight (when you're in the "life" these things are bound to happen) the arsonist can create a distraction while you muscle in on a rivals bussiness, you can also upgrade your crews attributes and apperal, and of course reward them with a promotion. They are all self-suffincent but can be given orders such as following you or sending them home. Also sending them to take over control of rival bussinesses through the don's view can can be great fun. I completed the game in about 18-20 hours, my tip to enjoy the game as much as possible, dont take over any bussinesses untill you have the story to require you to, i didnt so the game feeled more rushed and unfinished.

However I must say the multiplayer leaves much to be desired but the whole purpose of the online play is to earn licences for your crew so they can equip themselves with better weapons and a steadier hand to go along with it, you will have to recieve "honours" which are achieved by certain objectives such as "1st place on the winning team" or "revive 5 teammates", i would suggest these are really quite useless as your crew will stomp out the brains of any wiseguy who gets in your way without a high-grade firearm.

Also there are many collectables, such as doing favours for corrupt officals, upon completing these you are given the ability to either remove your wanted level, get a made man out of jail etc, but the most exciting is of course the executions, and the most entertaining of the game's combat, smash in some wiseguys face with a baseball bat, maybe ventilate the back of someones head with your tommy guy, or perhaps blast in thier pretty face with your shotgun, you get the idea.

Many other reviews (as well as my own) give you plenty of good reasons to get this game, i only gave this game four stars, as the graphics seem typical of a PS2 game, they're not terrible but not something we'd expect the next gen PS3 to give us, not only do the textures seem poor and faded but at times they can be glitchy, such as not focusing out in the distance. The AI can be at times (and i throw this word very loosely) dumb, at times when your crew are left behind, they will magically reapear in front of you.

Don't let the cons throw you off, the game is still great fun, despite the flaws you will find it hard to stop playing, however apart from the above critisisms, i would say this game could have remained truer to the movie its based on, which its predecessor did a great job off. If you enjoyed the previous game this is very similar with a few extra bonuses.

This installment wraps up the godfather videogame franchise, as EA announces this was the last game due to the expiration of its license, but who knows? Maybe in the future we'll have Godfather III.

this game features 42, all off-line trophies, all easily obtainable:

1 Platinum; 4 Gold; 9 Silver; 28 Bronze

A great worthy game that will take libertys with your time but Unfortunetly we cant say:

"No last Words, No last Requests".