The Godfather II
The Godfather II is a video game that consists of 11 releases
Reviewed on April 13, 2009
The Godfather name is little more than bait for this empire-focused take on the Grand Theft Auto-style of criminal action.
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This open-world crime sequel follows the events of the second film and attempts to make you act like a mobster and think like a Don in the Godfather universe.
Overview
Dominic taking out an enemy
In the game you play as Dominic a young man in the employ of Aldo Trapini, the previous game's protagonist. When Aldo is shot and killed by Cuban revolutionaries, Michael Corleone charges you with taking over his role within the family and from there you must begin expanding the family's control of the crime world. In order to achieve this, you get tips and help from Frankie Pentangeli, an old made man, to gather up a family and start taking over rackets and businesses. The game's story is loosely based on The Godfather: Part Two, a masterpiece movie by Francis Ford Coppola.
Gameplay
Single Player
The game play has a conquest like feel, in that the individual territories in the city are controlled by rival families, and you are tasked with getting these territories under control of your family by intimidating them to accept your protection and paying you for it. To do this you can send members of your gang to rival controlled territories to weaken them by doing things like bombing their buildings, and taking out powerful people in that family. Once they are weak enough, you can attack these territories to try to defeat them and make them your own. Taking a territory doesn’t guarantee its safety though, and you will have to hire guards in case someone tries to take a territory from you. Depending on number of the guards you set for your territories, they will cost you money and reduce your daily payout. When another family invades your rackets, you can either go and defend it by yourself or send one or two of your family members to defend the business, because usually, ordinary guards won't last long in a full scale attack. Taking over all the crime ring areas rewards you with a bonus like armored cars, brass knuckles, bullet proof vests, etc, depending on which one you take over. After taking over all rackets of a family, they will go defensive in their compounds. You can go there and destroy their compound with a bomb, and then, they're done for ever. As said before, rackets have related activities, and taking over a ring of rackets with same activity will reward you with items and circumstances that reduces the game's difficulty. The crime rings are listed below:
- Gambling- Rewards incendiary ammo.
- Arms Smuggling- Rewards increase of explosive carriage.
- Diamond Smuggling- Rewards Bulletproof vest for your family and guards.
- Chop Shop- Rewards armored car parked in front of them and every airport as well.
- Adult Entertainment- Rewards reduce of Guard payout.
- Prostitution- Rewards Brass Knuckles.
- Drug- Double's the income cash from this ring.
- Constructions- Your businesses will recover quickly.
- Gun Running- Increases ammo capacity.
- Extorting Business- 9 Shops including bars and electrical stores, only increases money.
- Carmine Rosato Family- New York
- Tony Rosato Family- New York and Miami
- Mamango Family- Havana and Miami
- Almeida- Havana and Miami
There are another activities than racketeering as well. Some pedestrians will give you intel and money if you do them a "Favour". They can be burglary, murder, sabotage, and other crimes. Intel that they'll give you is a "Kill condition" for another family's made men. If you don't kill a made man with their special kill condition, they'll disappear from the map for a brief time, then return. They'll disappear for good if you follow the "Kill Condition" instructions sharply. For example, hitting them with a car or throwing them in a river. other Favours will give you money.
The Black Hand controls make a return in this game, in which you use the triggers to grab your enemy and beat them with your fists, or environmental objects until they agree to cooperate with you. A new feature added to this section is "Weak Point". Every shopkeeper and business owner you're intimidating has a personal weak point witch you can discover and use to increase their payout. For example, some shopkeepers are afraid of physical attack, some will agree to cooperate with you after you smashed their goods or consumers and many other various weak points. One new feature is sting Cards. If you help out someone higher up in the family than you, you will receive sting cards that can be used against rival families to weaken them by doing things like having some of them arrested.
This time around you will be able to create your own family. in order to expend your family, you should search cities for guys with a dollar icon over their head. Once you approach them, you can ask them about their specialties. There are six kind of made man you can hire:
- Demolition: Bomb experts. you can use them to rig cars and bring rackets and compounds down.
- Arsonist: You can use them to ignite a place.
- Safe Cracker: they will open locks and safes for you.
- Engineer: They can use tools and hardware to make your job easier, for example, cutting a fence to open up your way through them.
- Buiser: Bull guys, they can be useful during a combat.
- Medic: they can revive your family member defeated in a combat. otherwise, you have to do it yourself.
You can simultaneously carry four kind of weaponry . Three kind of explosives, including Dynamite, Cocktail Molotov, and Bomb. One melee weapon, like a pool cue, baseball bat, or a firewire for a stealth kill. Projectile weapons are:
- 9mm Pistol, a suppressor includes later in the game.
- Magnum
- Initially, you carry a Tommy Gun as your MG, but later you'll receive a much better MG.
- Shotgun
Just like the original, you can drive vehicles in the game. The variety of the cars can't be compared to a game like Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, but they're still away from being frustrating after a while, which was one of weak points in the original one. Controlling a car is much easier, and you can avoid damage easily because in corners, optionally you can make the car to turn by itself. (developers didn't mean that straightly, of course).
Multiplayer
There will be an online option as well that will be able to support up to 16 players. In this mode, you will be playing as the made men. All the abilities you earned in single player will appear online with your made men. In return, rewards from online play called "Honors" can then be used to get more upgrades for your made men in single player like advanced weapon licenses and more powerful firearms. The online modes include Team Deathmatch, the bloodiest of the modes, Fire starters, focusing on setting the most fires and maintaining score multipliers with your arsonists, Demolition Assault, the most team centric mode where players have to destroy three enemy controlled points on the map using their demolition expert, and Safe cracker, used to control the most territory using the safe cracking specialist. After it's first day of release, EA patched the game with a new multiplayer mode called Don Control where up to 16 players wager money that they earned in the single player for the ultimate control. As a Don, players will compete to recruit members online and if you lose as the Don, your money in the single player campaign is wagered away and your single player empire is hurt.Story
Unlike the original game where the beginning scenes coincided with the Godfather Part I's initial events, the story of this sequel starts with the visit of Michael Corleone in Cuba. He and several other Don's are there in order to make a deal with an older gangster, Hyman Roth. Unlike the movie, the Cuban revolt begins to gain success faster than seen in the movie: the revolutionaries interrupt Roth's birthday and take over areas of the city. Dominic (the player), Michael and Aldo (the protagonist of the original game, now a don himself) have to make their way to the airport and fly back to New York City. Before they enter the airport, however, Aldo gets shot and immediately dies. On the plane ride back, Michael offers Dominic to take Aldo's place. With help from Frank Pentangeli, who currently runs Corleone's businesses and assets in New York while Michael is in Nevada, Dominic hires a soldier to become a made man and begins to take over the New York by weakening the other families...
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April 7, 2009
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| Original US Release |
April
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| Aliases | The Godfather 2, Le Parrain 2 |
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XBOX 360 Achievement List
Complete achievement list for the US XBOX 360 version.
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