GamingBolt.com : GodFather II Reviewed

History shows that the games based on movies generally have never been quite a successful experiment and same goes vice versa. There may be plenty of reasons for that but the fact of the matter is that somehow developers have never been able to find a certain balance between how much the game will have the movie's characters and story's influence and how much is it going to be original. And that's the pressure the developers face when developing a game based on a movie and it doesn't get bigger than when you are making a game based on the most influential piece of crime fiction in the history. EA takes a second outing with Godfather franchise on the next gen consoles and although promises a lot in the start with all the strategy elements put in but ultimately falls shorts on every front.