The Godfather
Action game by U.S. Gold, released in conjunction with The Godfather III movie. The game starts off in 1940s New York, but spans a number of decades that mirror the events in the famous movie trilogy. Stages…
The Godfather is a shooter, released 31 December 1991 on Amiga.
What The Godfather is
The Godfather was released in 1991. It was published by U.S. Gold. It is available on Amiga only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Action game by U.S. Gold, released in conjunction with The Godfather III movie. The game starts off in 1940s New York, but spans a number of decades that mirror the events in the famous movie trilogy. Stages include Las Vegas in the '50s, where you execute a vendetta against opposing family hoods, a confrontation in Cuba, Miami in the '70s, and a final conflict in urban America in the '80s. Fend off enemy gangs and succeed at working towards piece with all the rival families.
How it plays
It is played from a first 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 is the first of 7 entries we hold in the The Godfather series. The next entry was The Godfather in 2006. Its critic score of 72 is 2 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is The Godfather at 80.
How it was received
The Godfather holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1991 averaged 68, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What it launched against
The Godfather launched on 31 December 1991, within three weeks of Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams and Baseball Stars 2. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams, Baseball Stars 2.
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