"The Godfather" Video Game is Coming

Don Corleone, as portrayed by the late, great Marlon Brando, and his mafia family are coming to a PlaysStation2 and XBox near you. "The Godfather" video game is on it way to stores this month.In the latest example of the retro movie-to-video game trend and the improving track records of such efforts (see Rockstar Games' recent entry "The Warriors"), Electronic Arts has taken Francis Ford Coppola's 1970's American film classic about an Italian-American mafioso dynasty and made turned it into a fully immersive interactive story. Think of it as "Grand Theft Auto" meets, well, "The Godfather," set in 1920's New York City. The game drops on March 21. A review in the upcoming April/May issue of Giant magazine gives "The Godfather" video game an "A+" and says it's a success that has managed to escape the "awful movie-turned-game curse." The screenshots and video on EA's official site look great (but, then again, they do for all games, even the crappy ones). Can't wait to play it and blissfully waste even more of our Saturday afternoons schackled to our PlayStation2.

Posted by Thurston Ali at March 15, 2006 01:32 AM