The Godfather II
Set In A Stunning Open-world Environment The Godfather IiInspired 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.
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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.
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.
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.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars A good game after all
Luis Mejia - Considering the flaws the first Godfather had (the repetetive locals, the amount of cars, the appearence of buildings and such) I consider The Godfather 2 a well polished game. It summarizes you the important plot of the second movie, gives you a compelling and limited liberty and provides you an intensive and enjoyable gameplay. That’s what an average game is supposed to offer, although no one wants to buy a flat average game if that’s the case. I was pleased by the corrections applied to this sequel game, specially if you were addicted with the first game, you get a nice variety of cars with their radio stations, a well designed group of buildings, landmarks with plants and decorative touches, and a nice character customization (if you consider the horrible human prototypes you could create in The Godfather I). Then you can be satisfied but just if you really liked the first game. Apart of the external aspects, the game has an average gameplay.
It is a very short game, and not only short but definitive, this means you finish the game and you’ll find yourself with nothing to do. The story is well developed; although the game should’ve started long before the Cuban revolution and you should’ve met Tom Hagen at first. Instead, you get the whole game was chopped by half; specially when you find such a small New York, a stereotyped Cuba and the most acceptable Florida. At the end of the storyline I was dissapointed, it’s not the bombastic finishing mision of the first game.
Now I’ll get to the new features the game provides; the don view. In this 3D map aspect of the game you can plan anything you need: you can check the locals around, defend your posessions, attack other businesses (although I highly do not recommend anyone to do this it’s a waste of time), improve your skills, your crew skills, manage defending guards in local and check other points of interest. This feature is very well done and easy to learn, so there’s no complication in understanding the gameplay. When it comes to your crew, it’s a delight to find out how useful this group of people you hire are, almost each hability is needed. Of course these people will become your family, which you can upgrade and manage as you find better crew to carry better weapons. From demolitions to bruisers, your crew is far better improved than the babysitting system of the first game.
When it comes to the locals, they are more entretaining to conquer as there are fewer and harder. They do not get repetitive, but there’s something really frustating about getting to search a long time for the owner. They are also easier to persuade. The crime rings are bonuses you get when attacking a certain group of rackets, although useful you don’t get to use these bonuses near the end as other crime rings are hidden in other cities and when you get to Cuba the game is nearly finished. This gets bothersome.
Along with the Corleones, you find 5 different families along the way. I believe the Carmine Rosato family counts as a “training family”, as it is to easy to wipe out. When you get to Florida and Cuba you get to the real action, as these families come out taking out your businesses and locals, and you’ll need to defend them with made men or personally. When you get Tom as your advisor is easier to plot if a defense will succeed. The only way to stop the others families from attacking you is to kill their family men, whom which you can get to kill after doing favors to people; although this is painfully repetitive. Also you must kill the specifically or they won’t go away.
The game easy difficulty is also frustating; getting you or your crew killed is difficult, and with your medics is nearly impossible to fail. But this doesn’t mean is not an enjoyable game. At last, the game has very good features, but it desperatesly compacts the whole game in a half done, hurried up format; as if they would’ve made the game in the last days of the deathline. But it is very addictive and fun but all in all The Godfathr franchise is an acquired taste. (PS: does anybody noticed the armor or the ammo belts cannot be removed? this results to me far unprofessional).
5 Stars amazing
This game is so much more fun than the 1st godfather game. The new Dons View thing is absolutely amazing it is so helpful and just adds to the overall fun of the game.
Sure the story isnt exactly like the movie like the assassination attempt of Fidel Castro (which was a pretty good level by the way) but that just adds to the fun. I think that is why the first game failed because you could always see what was coming.
Me and my friend have had countless hours playing this game and it is defenitily worth a buy. Two Thumbs up!!!
5 Stars wow really cool game
I loved the first godfather game for the xbox 360. The godfather 2 seems to take a little different direction but in a good way . you are already don but the game is really fun. You are in cuba, florida and new york the game is really huge. very cool gun play and i love the finishing moves. Extortions are really fun too. The story line is really fun and great. If you are a fan of the first game you will love this one.
5 Stars Satisfying sequel
I purchased this as a gift for my adult son & daughter. They both enjoy it and like the challenges it presents and the unique aspects of the game play. Although I don’t personally play the game, I do find myself caught up in the story & the game play and end up watching them. I especially like the design & visual appeal of the different cities depicted in the game. I am impressed with the skill & imagination of the people who build these “worlds”. Well worth the $60 investment!
3 Stars I like it…
…don’t know if it’s worth damn near $60.00, though.
Maybe $30.00
Haven’t read the other reviews. This are just my thoughts.
There are things that I like about the game:
1. The look and feel of the game, i.e., graphics and music. The game has improved in appearance.
2. The storyline (of course). I like the way they integrated the story with the character ‘Dominic’.
3. The concept of creating a ‘family’.
4. You get into the action really fairly quickly.
5. I like that crew members have specialties.
6. It’s somewhat unpredicatable–> there are various routes into a building that you can take. You have to figure out the best ways to utilize your men.
7. I like that each business has special perks.
8. I like that you can get favors and perks from officials
9. I like the Don’s view screen where you manage finances and businesses and such.
But (and here we go with the negatives):
1. It’s not like you’re buying property or cars and clothes with it. You don’t really use the money for anything besides purchasing guards to protect your businesses and upgrading your crew members, so… this function lost it’s appeal rather quickly, for me.
2. I wish I could recruit crew members more frequently. Seems to be a slow-moving process.
3. Crew members…? They have their uses. They’re a great addition…just have to be careful when it comes to your mob ‘hits’. Their trigger happy ***es are guaranteed to just screw it up. I usually take one (the demo expert–the most reliable one) and have him post in close area as a precaution.
3. I think this game is easier than the original, imo.
WAYYYY easier. I just defeated the first family and was like, “That’s it?” In the first Godfather, a horde of mobsters were coming out of nowhere to fight me tooth and nail. In this one…I think I could have singlehandely taken out that house. Maybe it gets harder with each family, I dunno… If you can esacoe the scene of the crime then you’ll have no issue with cops. They pretty much leave you alone…
4. I’m under the impression that I either have to kill my crew memebers or setup a wireless connection to upgrade the weapons qual. of my crew members in Xbox live. Not interested in going through a ‘process’ to play a stupid game…I suppose I’ll just keep whacking them. (laugh)
I like the game alright.
There’s been some great improvements. The new concepts just need to be better developed, imo.
3rd times the charm…(wink, ‘Godfather 3′)
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