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Posted May 31, 2020
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: I also own it on disc. It's not bad, but it's not good either. It's highly mediocre.

And it definitely suffers from open-world-itis: the vast majority of the gameplay consists of fighting the same few copy & pasted enemies within the same few copy & pasted buildings (although the map 'pretends' they are all different building) over & over again endlessly.

And the protagonist who you play as has no personality whatsoever and IIRC he doesn't even talk, so he feels like a generic robot and not an actual person.

Games like Mafia 1 are vastly superior because they don't have any of those problems.
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dudalb: Problem is that "Godfather" is just another GTA III clone.
The GOdfather is one of my favorite movies, and I really looked forward to the game, and was dissapointed when it came out.
I would have preferred a out and out strategy game on the topic.
I don't get why people call the game Excellent. It's just OK. I guess it;s love of the source material. i love the source material too but don't fall in love with anything wiht themagic words Godfather on it.
"Mafia" was a much better game. Yeah, it;s a GTA clone, but IMHO much better exeuted then "The Godfather".
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Breja: I'm still baffled by the fact that something like The Godfather: The Video Game actually happened. It's sort of like that Hamlet wtih Schwarzenegger, something you'd see a poster of as a joke in some movie, but this actually exists.
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dudalb: I don' t have a high opinion of the "Godfather" game, but disagree that you cannot make a good game from the novel and the movie. The mistake was going into the direction of an action game, rather then a strategy game.
GTA-style games were hot at the time, so they (EA) made a "Godfather" type of GTA-like. Everybody wanted a piece of that GTA-like pie, at that time.

While I liked the games for Scarface: TWIY, Godfather 1, and Godfather 2 - eh, there's a lot of the Mafia 3 problems in those ones: do the same open-world Ubi-Soft cut & paste racketeering, destroying, killing, collect-a-thons, and/or whatnot side-missions everywhere.

GTA's really didn't have these problems that the above-mentioned games did - as often there were interesting main missions, main stories, and tons of side stuff in the GTA's.

Mafia 1 and 2 were great though - namely b/c their main campaign modes were campaign-focused, story-focused, and character-focused; and very linear for the most part.

Free Ride modes for Mafia 1+2 - eh, they didn't do much for me.
Posted May 31, 2020
Godfather 2 was probably the second-worst game I've ever bought after Tribal Rage. It's not completely horrible, just half-baked and cashgrabby. Not sure I ever traded in a game with so few hours put into it.
Posted May 31, 2020
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CymTyr: It appears EA lost the rights to the game. The only solution you have is getting your hands on an external disc drive to use with your pc, and running the game dvd's that way.
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StingingVelvet: "Only solution" eh?

Anyway, probably never gonna be sold again due to licensing, but miracles have been performed before (see: Blade Runner).
Sorry Stinging, I don't remember responding to this thread but I guess I did. Obviously there's alternatives but I think back in 2017 we weren't allowed to even imply they existed? I don't remember.

Anyway hope you're well.
Posted May 31, 2020
Would love to see these games on digital stores again but I don't think it will happen. EA had The Godfather license and it expired. So to put games back on store EA have to pay for license. I doubt EA willing to pay thouthands of dollars to put 2 old games on digital stores. I mean, EA doesn't care about their own property like Battlefield 1942, Vietnam, 2, 2142, and they sure doesn't care about Godfather games.
Post edited May 31, 2020 by Madferit_UA
Posted May 31, 2020
Hopefully EA follow suit what 2K did with Mafia series.
Otherwise why they still have The Godfather 1 & 2 webpage on their website. Crossing my fingers.

Even if only naming it Definitive Edition and slap $40 price tag, at least it's available again and can run in modern PC.
Posted May 31, 2020
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CymTyr: Sorry Stinging, I don't remember responding to this thread but I guess I did. Obviously there's alternatives but I think back in 2017 we weren't allowed to even imply they existed? I don't remember.

Anyway hope you're well.
Thanks for the well wishes. I was just being snarky. I have talked about real abandonware a lot on here though and never got a message about it or anything. I think stuff that truly can never be sold again is fair discussion.
Posted May 31, 2020
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CymTyr: Sorry Stinging, I don't remember responding to this thread but I guess I did. Obviously there's alternatives but I think back in 2017 we weren't allowed to even imply they existed? I don't remember.

Anyway hope you're well.
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StingingVelvet: Thanks for the well wishes. I was just being snarky. I have talked about real abandonware a lot on here though and never got a message about it or anything. I think stuff that truly can never be sold again is fair discussion.
I think the rules have changed since I was last around here. Glad that they're more open minded about certain things. I was thinking of trying to find an old copy of Godfather 1 just to play through it again, but I don't even know if any discs are still in circulation.
Posted May 31, 2020
And I thought this was about the 1991 Godfather game...

https://www.mobygames.com/game/godfather

Didn't know there were GTA clones of them as well.
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