The Godfather II. Guns and Glory

Seeing as I had just finished my half yearly exams of my final year, and the school holidays were coming up I decided that I needed a new game, and that game was Godfather II.

I slapped it into the drive and loaded up, the first mission off the bat, you have unlimited pistol ammo and are killing Cuban revolutionaries. An incident occurs and you now procure your own family. You are now the Don, the man.

You gain your first two soldiers once you arrive back in America and then it is time to reclaim some land, Mafia style. The first business that I claimed, actually took two tries, the first attempt I ended up blowing away the shop keeper,
quickly followed by everyone in the vicinity who could of heard or seen
the slightest clue, no snitches on my turn, no sirey bob.

I decided to move on by demolishing the business  with a good old fashion bomb to the gas line.

At the next place I kept on seeing goons fall to their knees and sway around a bit before either dying or standing back up again. So being the gentleman that I am I decided to help them decide on one path, the path of death [note to self, insert evil laughter here]

Once I  got closer, I saw a little icon flash up, click right stick. I did, and the game cut to an animation of my standing behind the goon and blowing his brains all
over the floor. Awesome I said to my self. The next half an hour was spent with me trying to get the icon to reappear time and time again. It turned into a montage of execution animations. A second pistol animation, the tommygun to the mouth, shotgun to the face.

Despite all of these awesome weapon based executions, I lusted for something  that much more violent, then along came Mr. Melee kill, and his friend Mr. Barehands. Together these two gentlemen helped me in, breaking far to many noses and caving in a huge amount of heads.

Then without me knowing, I had practically reduced this other family to their don. This was all within the first two hours or so. I whipped over to Florida and took over  everything in sight, I had yet another monopoly. So to celebrate I traveled
to Cuba for a holiday. That and to attempt an assassination of Castro. I failed and got the hell out of there. Oh and did I mention that part of the reason why I went to Cuba was because another family had moved on me, and taken over most of Florida? Oh I didn't? Oh well, so I took over Florida and slaughtered all of those Sicilian pricks.

And well Cuba there are two businesses still in control of a bunch of quasi-Cuban mobsters, butonly because I can't be stuffed killing them. Also did I mention that
by this stage in the game, you don't even need to leave your safehouse, you can just assault other business with your family, and if you really want to join in.

Again this is one of those games that gets easier and easier as the day rolls on, and it wasn't even that hard to begin with.

Still it is pretty fun and a nice little weekender.

This has been adapted from my original blog post on www.gamingfront.net