The Godfather
The Godfather puts you into the action of the legendary films, while you relive the classic moments of the Corleone family. After a life of small-time jobs and petty thefts, you are accepted into the Corleone…
The Godfather is an adventure developed by Headgate Studios, released 21 March 2006 on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Godfather is
The Godfather is an adventure game developed by Headgate Studios and released in 2006. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on RenderWare.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In Little Italy in 1936, a young Aldo Trapani witnesses his father Johnny, a soldato in the Corleone family, being killed by the rival Barzini family. Don Vito Corleone comforts Aldo, telling him that when he is old enough and the time is right, he will have his revenge. Nine years later, in 1945, Aldo returns from World War II after serving in the U.S. Army. His mother Sarafina visits Vito during his daughter's wedding, telling him that Aldo has fallen in with a disreputable group of young thieves. Vito sends Luca Brasi to find Aldo and recruit him into the family.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, drama, historical and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Godfather series
The Godfather is the second of 7 entries we hold in the The Godfather series. It arrived 14 years after The Godfather. The next entry was The Godfather: Blackhand Edition in 2006. Its critic score of 80 is 6 points above the series average of 74. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
The Godfather holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Players rate it 74, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
The Godfather launched on 21 March 2006, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II and Daxter. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Daxter.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Godfather yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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