GB reports:
''While I enjoyed EA's first game based on The Godfather, it ultimately wasn't much more than a GTA clone adorned with the trappings of probably the most famous crime movie ever. It was an effective combination, but in the wake of Grand Theft Auto IV, open-world games like that need more to set themselves apart. EA's doing some interesting stuff with The Godfather II, which I got to see in action for the first time at the publisher's Redwood Shores headquarters.
The Godfather II seems to play pretty fast and loose with the fiction of the film, perhaps even more so than the last game. While the movie split time between two different eras of the Corleone crime family, the upcoming game will focus entirely on the Michael Corleone era. You'll conduct family business in New York, Florida, and Cuba, but the time the game takes place has been pushed up from from the 1950s to the 1960s, a choice that the game's creative director Mike Perry said was made for aesthetic reasons. You'll interact with characters like Fredo Corleone and Tom Hagan (voiced once again by Robert Duvall) but beyond that, it doesn't sound like the game will follow the events of the film.''
gamrReview's Xavier Griffiths: "Movie tie-in games have a reputation for being notoriously bad and shoddy, doing both a disservice to the original film and videogames as a medium. More often than not the movies that get adapted into videogames are high octane, action-oriented summer blockbusters and the aim is simply to extract as much money from the market as possible. Realistically no one expects games based on trashy films such as Catwoman, The Cat in the Hat, or Eragon to be good in the first place, but what about games based on films that have garnered recognition for the highest award in cinema?"
Gaming Update's CM Boots-Faubert takes a look at the newest list of online game servers that game giant Electronic Arts is shutting down, with a focus upon the online Achievements and Trophies that gamers will need to work on if they want to unlock them before the April 13th shutdown.
What the heck is wrong with EA. Some of those games aren't even two years old. Hardly even a year and a half some of them.
And they only JUST put that simpsons game on psn and xbl, and they're pulling the plug already?
Yeah I'm glad I got that as a PS plus game because I'd be pissed if I bought that
I think you may have got the wrong simpsons game, the one spoken about in the article is this one
http://uk.gamespot.com/the-...
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Ok now I'm not too upset lol. Plus the one I meant isn't even made by EA lol
Thanks
EA need to change their business tactics, it's obvious they are bleeding money even with all the sports franchises they hold.
The 28th of December hails the fourth instalment of Electronic Theatre's special The Twelve Games of Christmas series; every day for the twelve days of Christmas Electronic Theatre will be running through the best releases of each month of 2009. We're here to remind you of the games you should be looking out for in the 2010 January sales so that you can find the gems that you've missed. Today, being the fourth day of Christmas, is the turn of April 2009.
