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The Godfather: The Don's Edition

You can move up the ranks of the Corleone crime family in The Godfather. In the game based on the book and movie, you go from humble beginnings of petty crime and rise to be the most powerful crime lord in all…

80 21 March 2007 ESRB M

The Godfather: The Don's Edition is an adventure developed by EA Redwood Shores, released 21 March 2007 on PlayStation 3.

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What The Godfather: The Don's Edition is

The Godfather: The Don's Edition is an adventure game developed by EA Redwood Shores and released in 2007. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 3 only. It carries an ESRB M age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

You can move up the ranks of the Corleone crime family in The Godfather. In the game based on the book and movie, you go from humble beginnings of petty crime and rise to be the most powerful crime lord in all of New York. The Godfather features customizable characters and a persistent gameworld, where your decisions affect how other characters interact with you. Marlon Brando, James Caan, and Robert Duvall return to the franchise to voice characters in the game as well. The Don's Edition features a more basic form of the gesture-based BlackHand control scheme seen in the Wii version. The game uses the SIXAXIS' motion sensor functionality in interrogations and, to a limited degree, during…
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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: The Don's Edition is the sixth of 7 entries we hold in the The Godfather series. It arrived 6 months after The Godfather. The next entry was The Godfather II in 2009. Its critic score of 80 is 6 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is The Godfather at 80.

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How it was received

The Godfather: The Don's Edition 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 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 16 points above the year average.

What it launched against

The Godfather: The Don's Edition launched on 21 March 2007, within three weeks of God of War II, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars and Super Paper Mario. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: God of War II, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, Super Paper Mario.

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The Godfather: The Don's Edition was released on 21 March 2007 for PlayStation 3.

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