Angry the Clown Posted March 13, 2004 Report Share Posted March 13, 2004 http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page....me=pub&aid=3102 Do you think we'll be able to throw Caan's infamous missed punch? Chase little Anthony Corleone around the tomato patch in one of the last levels upping Vito's heart rate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HL2CROSSFIREMOD Posted March 13, 2004 Report Share Posted March 13, 2004 EA PORTS -- THERE ALL THE SAME! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camp Posted March 14, 2004 Report Share Posted March 14, 2004 I read a rumor about this earlier this year. I hoped it would only be a rumor. Will Sofia ruin the 3rd game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark E Posted March 14, 2004 Report Share Posted March 14, 2004 Will Sofia ruin the 3rd game? Dunno, I suppose it depends on how much gets lost in translation :green: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
szippy Posted March 14, 2004 Report Share Posted March 14, 2004 A friend of mine was interviewing for a job at EA last year, and was told about their plans for the Godfather. It actually sounds pretty cool. They are spending a lot of time trying to capture Coppola's film style for the game. (He ended up not getting the EA job, but got another one in Hollywood) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan_E Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 No way! :evil: The Godfather is sacred! As Tom Hanks said in You've Got Mail, The Godfather is the I Ching! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secretvampire Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 I dunno, I guess I am in the minority, but I could see it making a pretty great game if done right. If you are actually running the family operations as well as actually doing the missions and such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 After playing EA's LotR games and then this last 007 game, I think EA knows how to handle a movie franchise title. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 Hey, nothing like this can surprise me after they went ahead and turned Seven Samurai into some futuristic hack 'n' slash game. :bang: And not a particularly good one by the look of things. Well, maybe a Citizen Kane game featuring a giant robot Kane would surprise me. It seems pretty natural that a company like EA would try to exploit the Godfather licence after the massive success of the GTA games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTello Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 Will Sofia ruin the 3rd game? Dunno, I suppose it depends on how much gets lost in translation Props to Mark, that was a great retort. Brilliant! -And on the GF game, I would look forward to the title. I enjoyed Mafia a whole lot and I'd welcome a title that could potentially upstage it such as the GF. Granted I doubt it could do the movie justice, but I never go into a video game with that set of expectations. I just hope it's a good title and well done, aside from the liniage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamsappel Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 Why should anything be sacred? "A company like EA"? I think EA makes great games. As Kelley pointed out, they've certainly done well by the Lord of the Rings franchise. I think it would be cool to play a soldier in the Corleone family, taking orders from the Don, avenging Sonny's death, etc. (which is how I would choose to develop it). As for Seven Samurai, why not update it? Isn't The Magnificent Seven also a wonderful film? Should a videogame hew to the original? In that case, you'd have to make it black-and-white and in Japanese, color and English being updates themselves. Keep the storyline about Samurai in feudal Japan? What's to distinguish that from a host of similar games? That they apparently didn't implement the change very well doesn't mean they shouldn't have tried, just that they should have tried harder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 "A company like EA"? Yes, a big software company that releases a lot of games based on movie licenses. I think EA makes great games.Never said they didn't. Isn't The Magnificent Seven also a wonderful film?It's OK. It doesn't come close to Seven Samurai, though. Keep the storyline about Samurai in feudal Japan? What's to distinguish that from a host of similar games?Yes, I think if you're making a game about Samurai, setting it in feudal Japan would probably be a good idea. Obviously, the thing distinguishing it from a host of similar games would be the license, exactly the same thing that is distinguishing the 20XX game from a host of games set in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry the Clown Posted March 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 Well I'd say EA have proven themselves when it comes to recreating the atmospheres of some major franchises in videogame form, of that there is no doubt, but they're a bunch who still fail to push ahead in any real innovation in my mind, and I know others feel the same. Again, I personally just can?t help feeling they?re out of their depth on this one. Should something like this remain sacred? I don't know. Should game developers really be reaching so far in desperation of cashing in on another franchise like Hollywood throws together a quick sequel because it?s guaranteed a sufficient success thanks to its name alone and is far easier than thinking up an original project? I think there's some good talent within EA, but these franchise games can bring with them both freedom and restrictions upon the staff involved to the extent where it can hurt the quality of their output. In a way it begs the question of how much is good enough with these sorts of games because we can often feel quite content with running, shooting, creeping round corners like we?ve done countless times before in a videogame, so long as this time we're doing it as 007. Can a movie licence help us overlook the fact we're so frequently playing with elements we've usually experienced many times before in other games? EA seem to think so, but I am not sure I'd be one to agree, especially in the long run. We've obviously no idea on the approach they're taking here, and I'm curious to see the results, I really am. If, however, it's akin to Mafia but to the music of Nino Rota then my feelings toward a lot of these games and notably EAs approach to exploiting a franchise, isn?t going to change for the better any time soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 Originally posted by Daniel Brecher@Mar 15 2004, 04:52 PM Should something like this remain sacred? I'm reminded of an interview with Alan Moore that I read somewhere around the release of From Hell. The interviewer asked him whether he was worried about Hollywood butchering his works. Moore said something to the effect of "Why should I care what Hollywood does? All my works are on the bookshelf behind me. They haven't touched the originals. I don't care what Hollywood does; my work is still there on the shelf." -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 Of course he's since changed his mind about that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnemaEms Posted February 1, 2005 Report Share Posted February 1, 2005 Bringing this thread back from the dead since EGM has a huge article on this game along with all the screenshot supposedly being from the X-box 2 version. The game will obviously be a GTA free roaming style of game. Here is the kicker, you will not be playing Michael, Vito, Sonny, or even Fredo...you will create your own Mafia guy using the same type of face creation system found in the Tiger Woods games. Al Paccino will not be lending his voice to the game, but James Caan, Robert Duval, and even Marlon Brando will. :tu The article says EA got all of Brando's voice-overs recorded about 6 months before he passed away. All in all, the games graphics look very nice and the gameplay has major potential. Now lets see if EA can pull it off. I highly recommend everyone checking out the article. -Dean- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romier S Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 IGN has posted the first screens of the game. Can't say much as far as the sanctity of the Godfather property but thus far the screens look very promising: The Godfather screenshots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry the Clown Posted February 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2005 Yes, the screenshots are nice and quite true to the look of the first two films in terms of the colour palette and the film stocks used. Nice layer of artificial grain added to the images too it seems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted July 14, 2005 Report Share Posted July 14, 2005 For those looking forward to the Godfather. It has been postponed to early 2006 according to multiple sites Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris F Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 Gamecube doesn't get The Godfather: http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=60055 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry the Clown Posted July 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 There are reports Brando's voice will now not be featured in the game, due to EA only actually having about an hours worth of material most of which is allegedly unusable due to his ailing health at the time of recording. Daniel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 Which is fairly common for celebrity actor videogame dubs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry the Clown Posted July 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 Whether the game voice will fare any better we can’t say, but it's hard not to cringe whenever someone does an impression of Brando in The Godfather. Daniel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romier S Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 GameRadar has a boatload of new Godfather screenshots for the current gen consoles. You can take a look at the whole smattering of them here: Godfather pics Here are two to give you an idea of how the game is coming along: [ATTACH]754[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]755[/ATTACH] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave C Posted September 18, 2006 Report Share Posted September 18, 2006 Any 360 owners picking this up on Tuesday? Anybody play the current gen versions already? What improvements if any can we expect to see with the 360 version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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