Hey folks. Any of you per chance played the new Godfather game?
I have and well its not good.
Its an improvement on the first to be sure, The family tree and the new map system give a much better impression that your actually a crime boss. But that effect is spoiled somewhat by the fact that you have to keep running around like a little bitch for Michael Coreleone in the main story. Seriously you can't recruit more men unless Michael tells you to first.
Then theirs the Cuban missions. Were to start, In the game there is a mission to kill Castro, Yes kill Castro. In the film -which like the first game this one has virtually nothing in common with it- the Families are interested in investing in Batista's Cuba for government favours which actually happened in real life. However on the day of this agreement the Revolution takes Havana making the deal void.
So in order to get a more compliant government in to power they send you a Mafia Don to kill Castro. To do this you have to get close to Castro, to do this you have get a meeting with Castro about the prospect of a business deal (like how your supposed to have with the new government that your assassination plot will bring in) so why try and kill him when he is prepared to give what you want links to the Cuban nation? Furthermore to prove your sympathetic to the revolution you arrange to track down and murder Batista loyalists. What business man goes around personally murdering political activists? Furthermore if the plan works and you bring Batista back to power you've made it harder for his regime to last because you've personally killed his supporters.
Also your asked to kill a man as he is being taken into custody, by the FBI and Customs police, So naturally the plan is to storm the building he's being held and violently gun down dozens of Federal agents. That won't ruffle a few feathers with government and police at all now will it?
And the end credits plays out to Its a man's world. seriously Its a man's world, how does that fitwith the gangland theme at all?
So in summary the plot makes no sense.
Taking over businesses while formulaic is at least interesting with the big joints having numerous entry points and with your crews skills giving you an opportunity to employ at least a modicum of tactics.
I'd enjoy it more if it didn't have the Godfather label plastered on it.