Press X for gun, Y for canoli

Last week I decided it was time to try a new xbox game since let's face it, that's a far better use of my time than something like homework or fixing the leaking kitchen faucet. So I headed out to the video store and got The Godfather, the latest game to get Senator Clinton's panties in a bunch.*

Then it was time to go to the mattresses. It turns out, that job is MUCH harder than they make it seem in the movie. Granted, the safehouses in the movie didn't give the soldiers any chance to "save game." Come to think of it, it would be awfully convenient if there was a "save game" for real life, but that's a whole other issue I'll save for some future post.

The game is a sandbox style game (think GTA), with a map that seems fairly true to 1920's New York. The graphics themselves are very impressive; there are 22 different "execution styles" and there's even a good thunk sound when you mow someone down with a car. EA must have spent a LOT of money to make this game since it features the voices of Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, and James Caan (though Caan sounds very different from how he did in the movie, but then the movie was made 35 years ago).

Overall I thought the game was excellent, and pretty much follows the storyline of the movie: planting the horse's head, executing the four families, etc., while getting the added bonus of causing extracurricular mayhem on the streets of New York.

On the Nintendo Scale, this game rates somewhere around Mike Tyson's Punch Out.

Folk Metal's Nintendo Scale, for the uninitiated:

1 - Paperboy
2 - Kung Fu
3 - Double Dragon
4 - Mike Tyson's Punch Out
5 - Super Mario Brothers 3

*Assuming Senator Clinton wears panties.