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The Godfather: Blackhand Edition

The Godfather: Blackhand Edition, is the highest rated version of The Godfather on Gamerankings and IGN, despite not faring as well with other publications. It features 20 normal missions, ten new hit…

75 19 September 2006 ESRB M

The Godfather: Blackhand Edition is an adventure, released 19 September 2006 on Wii and Xbox 360.

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What The Godfather: Blackhand Edition is

The Godfather: Blackhand Edition was released in 2006. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Wii and Xbox 360. It runs on RenderWare. It carries an ESRB M age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Godfather is a 2006 action-adventure video game developed by EA Redwood Shores and published by Electronic Arts. It was originally released in March 2006 for Windows, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. It was later released for the PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, Wii, and PlayStation 3.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the The Godfather series

The Godfather: Blackhand Edition is the third of 7 entries we hold in the The Godfather series. The next entry was The Godfather: Mob Wars in 2006. Its critic score of 75 is almost exactly the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is The Godfather at 80.

See all 7 The Godfather games in release order →

How it was received

The Godfather: Blackhand Edition holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What it launched against

The Godfather: Blackhand Edition launched on 19 September 2006, within three weeks of Company of Heroes, Pokémon Diamond Version, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade and Test Drive Unlimited. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Company of Heroes, Pokémon Diamond Version, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade, Test Drive Unlimited.

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When did The Godfather: Blackhand Edition come out?
The Godfather: Blackhand Edition was released on 19 September 2006 for Wii and Xbox 360.

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