An offer I couldn’t refuse
As you may or may not have read in my Sidebar, I’ve been playing a lot of The Godfather on PS2 this last week, and I’m loving it like a fat kid loves cake! I read an article about them making this game a while ago, about how they got James Caan and Robert Duvall to provide the voices, and somehow secured the late great Marlon Brando (obviously Al Pacino’s camp were not so accommodating, as Michael Corleone looks like Italiano Generico). It obviously must’ve worked on me ‘cause not only was I hanging out for it’s release, but I bought the 2-Disc Collectors Edition (The second disc is basically a DVD of James Caan fluffing lines — I know, I’m a marketing company’s dream).
As a movie fan, being able to immerse oneself in 1940’s New York is pretty fucken cool. The detail is almost perfect, especially in places we got a good look at in the film, like the Italian-American diner in which Sollozzo “The Turk” and Cpt. McCluskey get whacked. Haha… whacked.
With a feature they call MobFace I made my game character look (kinda) like me.
Anyways, so far I’m really enjoying this game, though I read on the internet that finishing the game and becoming Don of NYC is somewhat disappointing, but I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it, eh?
Comments
hey! fahgedaboutit!
Posted by: robert | April 23, 2006 10:04 PM
I’m still laughing about that cake comment :) Great job on your MobFace, its heaps like you. Good timing on the post, we just watched Godfather 1 over the weekend. Gotta get this game.
Posted by: Az | April 26, 2006 06:50 AM
Wicked. There’s clips from the movie in the game, both in the cutscenes, and actual film reels that you find and collect throughout the world, so I sorta feel like I’ve watched it again recently as well.
If you get the game, you’ll have to let me know.
I also have only just realised you can extort more money out of merchants if you rough ‘em up a bit first. Businesses that I was only getting a few hundred dollars for, are now paying me over a grand a week! Plus, I had to kill a bad baker.
Posted by: Luke | April 26, 2006 11:29 AM
what happened did the baker give you a bad pie?
Posted by: naf | April 26, 2006 12:54 PM
Bakeries and funeral parlours have furnaces on their premises, into which uncooperative merchants can be thrown. Naomi was aghast when she witnessed this, so I explained that I had to kill that bad baker.
I’ve never had a bad pie.
Posted by: Luke | April 26, 2006 01:43 PM
gee i hate it when I get bad pie…
Posted by: robert | April 26, 2006 02:41 PM
BTW you make a very handsome mobster (for a pile of pixels!)Plus you obviously are metrosexual enough to pull off a pink shirt AND tie!
Posted by: naf | April 27, 2006 12:32 PM
Oh yeah, the “bad baker”. By the way, he wasn’t a baker. He was a dude working in a crematorium. And “Luciano” threw him into the funeral pyre without cause. He’s a bad mobster, who kills women on the street. Evil.
Posted by: naomi | April 29, 2006 01:34 AM