THE GODFATHER II

GAME DETAILS :-

Developer : EA Redwood Shores

Publisher : Electronic Arts

Engine : Godfather Engine

Genre : Adventure

Release Date : April 7 , 2009

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS :-

Operating System : Windows XP / Windows Vista

CPU : Intel Pentium 4 Processor / AMD Athlon 64 3000+

Memory (RAM) : 2 GB

Graphics Hardware : DirectX 9.0c Compatible Video Card with Memory 256 MB

[NVIDIA : GeForce 6800 Series
ATI : Radeon X1600 Series]

Hard Disk Space : 9 GB

GAME FEATURES :-

The game begins on December 31, 1958 in Havana, Cuda, 3 years after the events of the first game. Hyman Roth, an business associate of the Corleone family, has arranged for a meeting in which various mafia families discuss plans to divide territory in Cuba amongst themselves. When their meeting is interrupted by the Cuban Revolution, Dominic, the new protagonist, escorts the Corleone's delegation to safety, but Aldo Trapani, the Don of New York for the Corleone family, is shot dead in the process. Don Michael Corleone appoints Dominic as the new Don of New York to keep New York under the family's control. Six weeks after this incident, two of the Corleone's caporegimes, Carmine and Tony Rosato, reneges on their former side to begin building their own organized crime family. Dominic is then tasked with recruiting underling soldiers and re-acquiring Carmine's newly-owned profit rackets in New York. After Dominic has managed to reclaim a number of Carmine's rackets, Carmine offers to hold a meeting with Dominic and a Corleone caporegime named Frank Pentangeli to negotiate for peace. The meeting, however, turns out to be a trap; Dominic manages to escape, but Pentangeli is apparently killed. After taking over the rest of Carmine's rackets, Dominic murders Carmine and his remaining men at his compound. After the battle, Hyman Roth asks Dominic to rescue his associate who was kidnapped by the Granados family in Miami, Florida. Following the rescue, Dominic, allied with Roth and aided by Fredo (who was sent by Michael Corleone), establishes himself in Miami and gradually takes over rackets from the Granados and from Tony Rosato, eventually eliminating them at their compounds. When Don Samuele Mangano moves his organization to Miami, Dominic wisely chooses to offer an alliance with them, which Samuele accepts. One day, Dominic and Fredo are suddenly ambushed at Dominic's house, but both survive the machinegun-fire, thanks to Dominic's quick action. Suspecting the Mangano Family to be the guilty party, they break the pact, and the Corleones and the Manganos start taking over each other's rackets. Roth offers to patch things up with the Manganos, and introduces Dominic to CIA Agent Henry Mitchell, who is plotting to assassinate Fidel Castro.

Dominic is sent to Havana and tries to kill Castro with a sniper rifle, but fails, as the Cuban Don Esteban Almeida had prior knowledge of the assassination attempt and alerted the authorities. It is also suggested in various scenes that Roth was working with the Almeida family to set Dominic up. When Dominic returns to account his failures to Michael, they learn that Frank Pentangeli is alive, ready to testify against the Corleones at a Senate Investigation into organized crime. Dominic rescues Frank's brother, Vincenzo, from kidnappers, and Vincenzo convinces Frank to recant his testimony. But the family has other problems. Mitchell has gone rogue, and Fredo has unwittingly betrayed Michael, due to Roth's manipulation. With the Senate Hearing out of the way, Michael decides that his enemies need to be eliminated. After killing Mitchell and destroying the rest of the rival families in all three cities, Dominic and his men carry out their last mission: assassinating Hyman Roth. After a tense shootout in Miami International Airport with Roth's men, airport security and the police, Dominic murders Roth and successfully escapes. Michael congratulates Dominic on a job well done, and tells him his future in the family is secure. The game ends with a reenactment of Fredo's murder from the original film, with Dominic's voice-over expressing regret. Once you take down all five families, you're about done with the single-player portion of The Godfather II. Multiplayer modes designed for up to 16 players include Team Deathmatch, Demolition Assault, FireStarter, and Safecracker. You play as one of the members of your crew from the single-player game, and as you earn honor points online, you can use them to upgrade your guys' weapon licenses so that they're able to use more-powerful guns both online and off. Your choice of crew member will likely be dictated by the game type that you're playing because, in case you hadn't guessed, those last three modes favor players with demolition, arson, and safecracker skills, respectively. Unfortunately, The Godfather II's multiplayer isn't much fun. One of the more interesting multiplayer features, regardless of the fact that it's functional rather than fun, is the option for one player on each team to play as the don. As the don, you don't play as a guy on the ground at all, but as a disembodied camera flying high above the map and able to relay information to teammates about enemy locations and the like both with voice chat and by dropping waypoint beacons. When your team captures strategic locations on the map, you can also reward them with bulletproof vests and other perks, which is great for them but as boring as it sounds for you. Even looking past these anomalies, all you're going to find is repetitive, unsatisfying gameplay in an illogical, inconsistent world. The Godfather II should have been an offer impossible to refuse, but like Michael's brother Fredo, this one will break your heart.

GAME REVIEW :-

5/10

The Godfather II Trailer :-