Game Review: Grand Theft Auto versus The Godfather

Actually, I had not had my hands on the other Grand Theft Auto games. I had only played Vice City and San Andreas. Though I knew every story of every Grand Theft Auto games, and had seen their screenshots, I had not put myself as the protagonist. As a matter of fact, I had not ended the game, Vice City but made the San Andreas a 100% Ended Game. I had collected every horshoe, oysters and etc.



The San Andreas is of course had it's setting at San Andreas. San Andreas is divided into 3 cities. The Las Venturas which is like the Las Vegas, the San Fierro which looks like San Francisco and the Los Santos, an image of Los Angeles. Overall, San Andreas is in California. San Andreas has it's black american protagonist, Carl Johnson. HE was exiled into Liberty City because he felt guilty of the death of his brother. Upon returning to San Andreas due to his mother's death, he helped in every gang business they are into. At the end of the story, no other gang is existing in San Andreas except the Grove Street and some Northsiode Vagos I think (They are the one with the blue bandana and clothes in which Cesar Vialpando belongs). CJ, as his gang mates call him, earns friends and kills the other traitors. He also becomes rich after that.

In San Andreas, the protagonist is one of the gangsters. There are no ranks in their gang. CJ only do errands and missions in which he did sometimes with the help of recruited gang members. The story is set in 1992. CJ can kill everyone, even his gang members. He can also steal cars, enter police stations, stores etc. San Andreas has a wide variety of vehicles in which the player can choose to steal. CJ can walk on the streets even without any clothes. San Andreas has also radio stations whenever you are in a vehicle. You can also have your own User Track Player in which you can put the songs you like.



In the game, Godfather: The Game, there are some differences in which we can only see in San Andreas.

The Game in Godfather is set in New York, 1936-1955. Of course during those times, no punks or gangsters or other elements of evil appears. To give a background, Mario Puzo wrote the novel the Godfather and filmed in 1972 by Coppola. The game is introduced to the public in the year 2006 by EA games. The player can choose his own physical appearance, change the way he wants the protagonist to be and choose his own name. During those times, New York was controlled by 5 families,
the Corleone, the family in which you were recruited, the Cuneo, the Stracci, the Tattaglia who is the immediate rival of the Corleone family and the weakest of all the families and the Barzini, the strongest family and the family who killed your father and your lover.

The game starts showing the Godfather himself, Don Vito Corleone. Your father is a known supporter of the Corleone Family. In that case he was killed by the Barzini lead by Don Emilio Barzini. You were portrayed there as a child and Don Vito comforts you saying, "Save your anger." Then the story will go on.

You were found by Luca Brasi, beaten up by some punks (during those times, punks don't wear punk clothes. They still wear the normal clothes a normal human would wear.). Luca Brasi then teach you how to fight until you killed all the punks. You will start as an outsider.


Your life appears at the upper left corner. It is in the shade of green. Your respect level appears below your health. The blue-colored. Your money appears above your health. Your rank appears also above your head. In this case, he is classified as an outsider because, he had not yet acquired the Corleone symbol. If you rise in the ranks, you will see black lines which signifies your ranks. The weapon you use appears at the lower left corner. The mini map appears at the lower right. If ever you aim your gun at anyone, it's name and health will appear at the upper right corner of the window. When it is a rival family member, it will appear together with the Vendetta level, it's rank and the family it belongs into.

The more rival family you kill, the more vendetta level the family will acquire which will result into a mob war. In a mob war, you should bomb one of their establishments or bribe an FBI agent or G-men. But I guess it's much better to just bribe the FBI because once you bomb an establishment, the black market payout is also lost.

"When you don't make money, you never rise from family ranks." -Corleone soldier

You should extort businesses inorder to rise fro family ranks. You also have to do missions. You become an associate, solider, capo, underboss and Don.

Once you become a don, you should extort all businesses and get all hit contracts from Al Neri, Clemenza, The Trojan, Tessio. Once you get a percentage of 92%, you will have a new objective and it is the time you will be known as the Don of NYC (the video footage of my actual awarding will follow).

To sum it up, I had finished all missions, ended all hit missions, extorted every business and every rackets, bought all safehouses, taken over all warehouses, collected 25 film reels, bombed 31 safes that made me to a Don of NYC.

THE DIFFERENCES

Well of course, the first difference is; in the Godfather, you can choose whatever physical attributes your character will be. While in San Andreas, like it or not, you will be a black. Next is the carrying of weapons. In the godfather, once you take out your weapon, people in the streets will run as if you will kill them while in San Andreas, you can carry even a grenade launcher while walking. In the Godfather, you can bribe anyone which will give you benefit. You can bribe a cop so as not to have a wanted level, you can bribe an FBI Agent to win a mob war and you can bribe rackets and sometimes rival family members so as to get their support. In San Andreas, there is no need to do that. Just type a cheat. Also clothes are not available in safehouses in the game, Godfather. There are no clothes stores in the streets. You can rob a bank in the Godfather. You cannot kill your own family members, and as a matter of fact, you can see the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State tower but from afar. In the Godfather, there are only 4 vehicles to choose from. Every missions has also it's check points so that if you die, you will be redirected to your nearest saved checkpoint. Last is in San Andreas, you are called a gangster while in the Godfather, you are called a mobster.



If I will rate the game, my rating for San Andreas is 7 and 8 for the Godfather.


As a matter of fact, I ended the Godfather Game WITHOUT ANY CHEATS...