Technically this game stumbles all over itself. Actually, this game is the kind of drunk that leaves its kids to freeze in the cold while it staggers back to the comfy confines of a warm house on a cold prairie night.
Go hyperbole.
I know some folk who insist this game was built off the modified Dead Space engine. I'm not seeing it. This is a last gen game all the way with barely any high res polish of any kind applied.
In the Godfather universe:
- Traffic on the freeway falls through some kind of black hole getting stuck in road geometry. Saints Row 1 clipping issues.
- Hyman Roth sounds like the G-Man from Half-Life.
- Quest progression stoppers will occur if you do the sandbox playstyle too liberally. I ignored several requests to meet with a story advancing npc to take over the cities I was in, as well as gaining wealth and favors for my crew. When I do return to NPC's for the cutscene the title behaved as if I hadn't initialized the cut scene and my npc buddies kept pestering me to go see important guy x or take out enemy don y. Saving and loading mostly fixed it.
- Favors becomes broken if you do it too much. I had a tree full of made men I was gathering intel on. There were several points where doing favors for random folk didn't reward me with the intel I was working towards obtaining. Saving and reloading didn't fix this. I had to storm the enemy's gates with the made men waiting there to defend it.
- Driving cars will get stuck in the sides of buildings when hit or against stairs.
- No explanation of the cop evasion system when beginning gameplay. I'd do crimes but had no concept of how to shake the cops. Only after unlocking the 1st safe house did this sort of make sense.
- Bulletproof vests double as Carproof vests. It was hilarious the first time seeing enemy ai be unfazed at being hit by a high speed car. Then it just became sad that this kind of shit wasn't caught during development.
- A lot of the gameplay is filler and major takeover missions can be done by your upgraded ai teammates. No risk at all of sending folk to take over the entire city for you while you just walk the earth.
- Every male character is fugly. Add to that weird edge enhancement halo-ing around their hair.
- Gamma levels are broken in the game. They'll be either too dark or too bright.
- Game is pretty much just filler in between cut scenes or key moments from the movie. Very short experience.
Though since most folk aren't even talking about this, it's kind of a good thing nobody else wasted any rental or purchase money on this mess.
