The Godfather II

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• Relive the greatest moments from "The Godfather II" in an open-world action experience inspired by the movie.
• Act like a mobster to command respect, intimidating and extorting business owners and rival families with devastating new attacks and executions.
• Recruit, develop, and promote members of your crime family. Recruit your friends to join your family and take them into battle online to find out who is the Don of Dons.
• Bring up to three crew members along on jobs, including an arsonist, demolitions expert, safecracker, and more. Command their actions in battle and unleash their specialties on your enemies.
• Be a true Don as you coordinate all the action using a 3D world map: survey your turf, place defenses on businesses, analyze crime patterns, identify new illicit racket monopolies, and choose the target of your next attack.

Product Details

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• ASIN: B001GJ306U
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: April 7, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,058 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #48 in Video Games > Xbox 360 > Action > Shooter
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Xbox 360

Amazon.com Product Description

Inspired by the events of the classic film of the same name, in The Godfather II players take on the role of Dominic Corleone, a little-known member of the Corleone crime family tasked with rebuilding the once dominant, but now faltering mafia empire. Set in an open-world gameplay universe full of dangers and opportunities, players must maintain and develop the Corleone crime family's resources using every and all means available if they hope in the end to prevail in the ultimate challenge, to act like a mobster, but think like a Don.

Command a crew of three as Dominic Corleone. View larger.

Analyze your empire with 'The Don's View' . View larger.

Enjoy open-world gameplay. View larger.

Take your family online. View larger.

Story
On the eve of the Cuban revolution, a major mob meeting in Havana takes a bloody turn. The Don of your family is killed in Cuba, leaving it to you to take the reigns and lead your battered organization and reestablish the Corleone powerbase in Queens. Success breeds opportunity: after you've proven you have the chops to run a top-tier crime organization, Hyman Roth invites you to expand and support him in South Florida. Do you accept his offer or do you remain loyal to the Corleones? Things get even more complicated when Michael Corleone comes under investigation by a Senate Committee on Organized Crime, and you're tapped to run the Family with support from Tom Hagen. Whatever decisions you make, you must build up your arsenal, command your crew, and establish and maintain power... or face the consequences. Stack your pockets with favors from those in positions of influence as you fight off attacks and strike back at your rivals. As the Godfather there will be a price on your head and a target on your back, but don't take it personally. After all, it's only business.

The Don's View
Be a true Don as you coordinate all the action using a 3D world map: survey your turf, place defenses on businesses, analyze crime patterns, identify new illicit rackets, and choose the target of your next attack. As the Don of a family, there are a ton of strategic choices to make in The Godfather 2. Just one example are Monopolies. Monopolies are groupings of rackets that "run" the same criminal activity. Controlling, and defending a monopoly comes with both a monetary bonus and game perk benefits making them key to owning the map, gaining wealth and amassing power. Monopolies can be local to one city or span across the cities. Larger monopolies made up of many targets, spanning multiple cities are obviously more difficult but offer greater rewards. Other in-game rackets include: Fronts - extortable legitimate businesses of the game that provide payouts as well as money laundering opportunities; and Small, Medium and Large Rackets - venues containing an illegal criminal activity and usually disguised as legitimate businesses. These three require various degrees of muscle to defend and keep under your control.

Key Game Features:

• Build Your Family - Recruit, develop, and promote members of your crime family.
• Command a Crew - Bring up to three crew members along on jobs, including an arsonist, demolitions expert, safecracker, and more. Command their actions in battle and unleash their specialties on your enemies.
• The Don's View - Be a true Don as you coordinate all the action using a 3D world map: survey your turf, place defenses on businesses, analyze crime patterns, identify new illicit racket monopolies, and choose the target of your next attack.
• Blackhand Brutality - Act like a mobster to command respect, intimidating and extorting business owners and rival families with devastating new attacks and executions.
• Bring Your Family Online - Recruit your friends to join your family and take them into battle online to find out who is the Don of Dons.
• 'It's Only Business' - Relive the greatest moments from The Godfather II in an open-world action experience inspired by the movie.

Commanding Your Crew
There are six ranks within each family, starting with the Don. As the Don you will have a right hand man, your Consigliere Tom Hagen, who will teach you the ropes and advise you on how to take down the other families. The rest of your family is comprised of an Underboss, Capos, Soldiers and Associates. These are the men who guard your interests and follow your orders without question. Members of your family within these ranks, known as Made Men, possess exclusive skills and specialties that can be taken into battle. Direct them wisely and upgrade them to develop their specialties and increase the power of your organization. But beware. Each rival family has it’s own family tree as well. Learning how to hunt down and permanently eliminate their Made Men will be critical to your success.

Take Your Family Online in Multiplayer Modes
Play The Godfather II online multiplayer modes and become the true Don of Dons. Take your money, weapons, and crew from your singleplayer experience online and wage mob warfare against players around the world. Play as one of your family’s Made Men and put your best strategies to the test as you battle for riches and honors that transfer back and forth between your singleplayer campaign. Some available modes include:

Fire Starter Game Mode - Arsonist crew members attempt to destroy as much as possible in a race to reach the scoring limit.

Safe Cracker Mode - Safe cracker crew members attempt to find safes throughout the map. Cracking them earns your team points and money.

Demolition Assault Mode - Use your demolitions specialty to destroy the enemy’s three assault points.

Team Deathmatch - The bloodiest mode and so not for the squeamish. Team with most kills wins.

Product Description

On the eve of the Cuban revolution, a major mob meeting in Havana takes a bloody turn. The Don of your family is killed, and you must take the reigns and lead your battered organization. Success breeds opportunity, so when Michael Corleone comes under investigation by a Senate Committee on Organized Crime, the Corleone Family calls upon you to reestablish its operation in New York and expand into a new territory -- Miami. Build up your arsenal, build alliances, and make whatever deals you need to as you fight off attacks and strike back at your rivals. There’ll be a price on your head and a target on your back, but don’t take it personally. After all, it’s only business.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointingly shallow..., April 10, 2009

By 

Jeff Travis "Stormfury" - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Godfather II (Video Game)

Don't get me wrong, Godfather was my favorite Xbox 360 game hands down, so as you can imagine I took the day off in eager anticipation of its sequel. Little Did I know that after 10 hours I'd be finished with the game!

There are some vast improvements on the control of your Family in this version of Godfather and I love how you can hire men, promote them and upgrade their skills and weapons. Don's view is a nice quick way to order men to help protect your investments. The developers were also nice enough to provide us with the locations of any missing safes, finishing moves, etc. for your achievement hunting.

The sad thing is that's about where the game's improvements ends and the bad points begin. While very fun to play in single player, the game's AI strategy is very poor. Outside of the occasional random bombing or attack, the AI posed little to no threat as my empire grew.

For a game that claims to be open-world it's frustratingly closed.

There are three city maps to compete on including NY, or what amounts to about 3 city blocks of NY, Florida (the largest city) and Cuba. In each city the number of buildings you can take control of was considerably lower than in the original game and outside of Florida the maps are really small. Each building is part of a racket which expands your family with upgrades such as additional ammo and eventually armored cars. Sadly the AI families don't appear to use or gain any benefit from holding onto rackets and many of them you cannot control until you unlock the next map. By the time I unlocked Armored Cars the game was well in the bag with about 30 minutes left of game play.

Gone from the original game:
- Don't expect drivebys. Not once did the AI Families chase me down with a vehicle.
- Armored Truck robberies (Not a part of this version at all!)
- Long in depth story in which you feel your weaving together events that shape the Corleone family.

I wish that the developers would have given us a game with the depth of the original Godfather with the control improvements of this game. While the racket bonuses are a nice touch, taking over businesses just didn't have the same feel as its predecessor. It would have been nice if each racket you controlled reduced the cost to purchase weapons, cars or incrementally increased capacity instead of the all or nothing bonus

The game engine is so much fun to play with, I wish there was a random map generator or something to give this game some replay value. As it stands now there is zero replayability.

Multiplayer could have been extremely cool if it had been built as a strategic RTS with each player controlling a family in Don view and using their single player resources (family, weapons, money) to battle with or against friends across the games city maps. It would have been awesome to team up with a buddy and ally against NPC families of varying AI strength. Instead it's yet another frag fest 3d shooter thrown in using its own maps and some of the game engine mechanics. Sure you get to `use' your single player family members while running around fragging each other but in name and abilities only. My made men lost all of their uniqueness in multiplayer in exchange for a lovely blue or red suit and the same face as the next guy. I'm guessing the developers thought they would bring you to multiplayer mode with the lure of unlocking level 4 weapon licenses but after a couple of hours finding out that my made men earned nothing was a huge disappointment. A nice touch in theory, but certainly not enough to keep me playing Godfather 2.

I highly recommend renting this game over a weekend as you can beat it easily in 10-12 hours and if you haven't played Godfather it's worth your money instead of this one.
The Godfather the Game

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Saint's Row Lite, May 4, 2009

By 

H. Crosland "Dredded Panthyr" (Maryland) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Godfather II (Video Game)

The reason why i would call this game Saint's Row lite is that EA took a lot of things that worked well with that game and the first Godfather and incorporated in here but on a much smaller level.

While I cringe at how the orginal movie was butchered to make into this game, I do however how what happens in this game drives youalong to your path as the ultimate Don.

As others have pointed out however is that the AI is mostly a pushover and even in my eyes when you go to take out someone's business, you could have overwheliming odds against you and still come out on top.

Another issue I have had is when members of my crew fire at EVERYONE. It means you have to be careful when taking them with you when going to execute a Don because these trigger happy mofos will kill them before you get to do your killing move.

I also agree that the money earned in this game is almost useless because there is nothing to really spend it on but upgrades however it does give you a chance to upgrade your soldiers.


It is a fun game if not a deep one strategically.

Enjoy it for what it's worth and who knows...maybe they can get Rockstar or THQ involved next go 'round....hehe fat chance

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Utterly Unfinished., September 13, 2010

By 

justsomeguy (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Godfather II (Video Game)

The gameplay is similar to the first, the missions are slightly different, you now have a few guys with you who have "specialties" to help you get into certain areas, etc. But the first one was done better. I liked the look and feel and control of that first game much better than this one. In this game, you're a boss, but you're still going out roughing people up? Doesn't work. Still kinda fun, but weird. Also, that 3D map stinks. I have no idea where I am in relation to where I need to be. It's much more info than you need. The auto-save feature is weak - because I have no idea when it's saving or not. I never know. I can complete some task only to die and re-load an old game, only to find that it didn't save for me after I had completed that task! And it's not very friendly if you wanna save yourself! You get a single save-game slot! Weak!
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The game looks utterly unfinished. This game has "Rush to shelves" written all over it. From the bad voice-acting (If you ask someone about joining your family when you have no room - he'll actually SAY he's sorry and has no room, then you proceed to ask the guy questions anyway! LAME!) to the really weak graphics, this game has rush-to-stores written all over it. The plot is weak. The gameplay is wayyyy too easy. I eliminated 3 families in just playing it a handful of times. It's just not a well-thought-out game at ALL.

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