The Godfather II Review

By Chris Hudak

Leave the game, take the cannoli.



The Godfather—and more to the point, The Godfather Part II—is one of those movies: You can’t get your official Guy Membership Card until you’ve seen it (pretty much the same deal applies with Blade Runner and the official Guy Secret Decoder Badge). The first Godfather game had players taking the role of…

  • Mix of street-level and strategic-level gameplay
  • Key movie points relived in-game. . . sort of
  • Grooming and/or retiring your Made Men
  • A loose take on the film storyline
  • Aspects of the game are unfinished
  • Far too forgiving overall
  • Lackluster and inconsistent environs
  • Strategic game falls short

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Chris Hudak
Chris Hudak

Chris Hudak is a writer, former San Francisco Zoo penguin recorder, frequent-flyer junkie, self-proclaimed lucid dream expert, poolshark-in-minnow’s-clothing, “student” of all things Japanese, borderline alcoholic (see “writer”), video-gamer-with-a-life, and moonlighting, kinda-sorta actor in his copious spare time.  He writes weird fiction, and contributes articles to Playboy, Wired, The Toronto Star, and whoever else has money.  Chris is the protagonist of the Harlan Ellison short story “Keyboard”—no, really—and someday wants a house in Walt Disney World.

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