Godfather Sales (The Wii Factor)

[Li Mu Bai]

Want to know more alacrist? Quoting some gameplay from Gaf, as well as my own impressions:

"I played another half hour or so before work this morning and am up to a little over 3 hours total playtime and it just keeps getting better. I love roughing up the shop keepers when extorting them, it's so great. I was in a night club and the police chief was there, he got in the way of me roughing up the club owner so I simply shot the police chief, fantastic!
Storywise I'm an enforcer, nothing like a hospital shootout!"

Coolest extortion I've done thus far was holding the chef over the brickoven, & threw her in purposely in once just to see if I could. Pistol whipping is fantastic, especially when the camera zooms in while you are talking & procede to continue doing it. Choking random bystanders, drownings, (tough to do due to water proximity) throwing rival gangsters off buildings, or lower ledges into their henchmen followed by a molotov cocktail charring them all. Shootouts with the police, vendettas, driving your car while your crew sits in the back performing drive-by shootings. (I used to hate both driving & having to aim accurately, locking on, etc. problem solved. this just feels more real) Bashing mobsters, police, or whomever into walls, throwing them through shop windows, vicious headbutts, & the bat. Oh boy, I've run into various firefights just with this armed. It's effect is quite satisfying, not to mention the interrogations. Anyhow, more gameplay impressions:

"Went to rob a savings bank in Little Italy to find the Cuneos already robbing it with police surrounding it. They offed each other at a ridiculous rate and I ran in when there was two Cuneos left, killed them, and ran off with the bank loot. So awesome."

"Random scene #1: four picciotti waiting outside of a shop; I'm in the car slowly cruising around (IROC: Italian Retard Out Cruising) and notice that the four are all waiving their fists at me and there are no innocent bystanders around. So what do I do? Put in reverse gear and kill them all at once! I get out of the car and in the shop, grab the shopkeeper by the shirt and he says, "Hum, I like the idea of being protected by you". I bet you do! 

Random scene #2: my first war between families. I am frantically trying to reach an FBI agent but dozens of mobsters kill me all the time. In the end, I manage to get to him at the last moment by creating the most devastating traffic trap ever devised and taking a shortcut on foot."

" It would have been awesome having shoot outs with the cops from the inside of a gun store while they were outside crouched behind their cruisers. The fact I can do this in Godfather is pretty nice."

It's very immersive, they've outdone Nintendo thus far in implementing motion control. The extra content is lengthy, & worth it. Taking over rackets, extorting businesses, defending the Corleone compound can take hrs. & this isn't even part of the main storyline. If you own a Wii, buy this game. Beating people senseless or killing them in so many ways is just so addicting. Honking the horn (w/the FHC) after carjacking  a vehicle at high speed & having them try & get out of your way is a nice touch as well. It should sell well simply by word of mouth, the FHC took a mediocre game & made it something special imo.