The godfather 2 was one of the best films of all time so you would think with such a licence a games company could do it justice.. sadly with the latest godfather game this is not the case, in fact it’s the exact opposite. You get to play the game as a member of the Corleone family known as Dominic ..he is not in the movies but miraculously is in many key scenes tied into the movie (still with me?). Under Michaels mentoring you have been given the opportunity to head up your own family & as great as this sounds it really ..really is not. The godfather 2 fails in everyway: the controls are atrocious & play like a block of wood..but the AI is even worse, members of your crime syndicate will run around like headless chickens when faced with the most simple of tasks.. Even getting through a door is ridiculous. The graphics are so bad that they almost look cartoonish. Your men are there to help you take down other families by using special skills like safe-cracking but they just makes things more complicated, charge into a room guns blazing & it will be a miracle if your men follow to help out. Like in scarface one of the main aims is to take over rival businesses but even when you start doing this it gets so repetitive that it will have you pulling your hair out in frustration. The maps included in the game are new york, florida & cuba - the game itself can be completed in a matter of hours but even with the perks you will earn there is still no reason to go back & play because all your rivals are gone. The online multiplayer is also a let down, the targeting system is completely unreliable & special option as playing as the don really isn’t that special at all ..as the don you are at best a camera that floats over the battlefield offering advice & tactical information. Its rare that I will find a game this bad & with this being on the next generation consoles like the playstation 3 & xbox 360 it really leaves a lot of questions on whether this is really a finished game - to me it feels completely unfinished with a mountain of bugs & glitches. In short this is not only an insult to coppola’s classic but an insult to anyone that was unfortunate to buy the game.
Tuesday 5 May 2009
The Godfather 2 - game review
The godfather 2 was one of the best films of all time so you would think with such a licence a games company could do it justice.. sadly with the latest godfather game this is not the case, in fact it’s the exact opposite. You get to play the game as a member of the Corleone family known as Dominic ..he is not in the movies but miraculously is in many key scenes tied into the movie (still with me?). Under Michaels mentoring you have been given the opportunity to head up your own family & as great as this sounds it really ..really is not. The godfather 2 fails in everyway: the controls are atrocious & play like a block of wood..but the AI is even worse, members of your crime syndicate will run around like headless chickens when faced with the most simple of tasks.. Even getting through a door is ridiculous. The graphics are so bad that they almost look cartoonish. Your men are there to help you take down other families by using special skills like safe-cracking but they just makes things more complicated, charge into a room guns blazing & it will be a miracle if your men follow to help out. Like in scarface one of the main aims is to take over rival businesses but even when you start doing this it gets so repetitive that it will have you pulling your hair out in frustration. The maps included in the game are new york, florida & cuba - the game itself can be completed in a matter of hours but even with the perks you will earn there is still no reason to go back & play because all your rivals are gone. The online multiplayer is also a let down, the targeting system is completely unreliable & special option as playing as the don really isn’t that special at all ..as the don you are at best a camera that floats over the battlefield offering advice & tactical information. Its rare that I will find a game this bad & with this being on the next generation consoles like the playstation 3 & xbox 360 it really leaves a lot of questions on whether this is really a finished game - to me it feels completely unfinished with a mountain of bugs & glitches. In short this is not only an insult to coppola’s classic but an insult to anyone that was unfortunate to buy the game.
Audrey Tautou: the new face of Chanel
Following in the glamorous footsteps of Nicole Kidman and Catherine Deneuve, French actress Audrey Tatou is the new face of the iconic fragrance Chanel No. 5. The beautiful doe-eyed star, who often garners comparisons to Audrey Hepburn, can be seen starring in a new short film to promote Chanel No. 5, out tomorrow.Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who worked with Tatou in Amelie, the film portrays a brief sensual encounter between a man on a women who brush past each other on a night train. Filmed in a railway station in Nice and on the Bosphorus in Istanbul, it was inspired by a scene in the Oscar-nominated film A Very Long Engagement. Tatou, who plays the title role of Coco Chanel in Anne Fontaine's new film Coco avant Chanel, said of her appointment to the luxury fashion house: "It hasn't really sunk in yet. The fact that the film has been directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the fact that it is Chanel No.5, which for me is a legend in itself. Even now, I find it hard to believe." Created by Coco Chanel in 1921, No. 5 has remained the number one selling scent around the world.
The short film premieres on www.chaneln5.com on Wednesday.
FBI search for Russian Mafia in Moscow
FBI agents have arrived in Moscow looking for Russian mafia members, who committed crimes on US territory. The FBI agents are particularly interested in four Russian criminals. Americans have asked the Russian police to locate a quartet of Russian mafia bosses: Evgeni Dvoskin, Konstantin Ginzburg, Victor Vulf and Alexander Gribov. Evgeni Dvoskin was born in the Ukrainian city Odessa but had been living in the USA since 1990. A Spokesman for the FBI said that Dvoskin had served a prison sentence in the same jail as the infamous Russian criminal Vyacheslav “Yaponchik” Ivankov. After their release they organized several financial schemes and illegally bought shares of four big US companies. Dvoskin was detained 15 times during 10 years of living in the USA.In 2001, Dvoskin was expelled from the US as an illegal immigrant. Two years later the US court opened a criminal case against Dvoskin for fraud and money laundering. Another of the FBI’s targets is Konstantin Ginzburg. The US intelligence service believes that 37-year-old Ginzburg is chief of a consortium of criminal gangs from the ex-USSR in US territory. FBI agents know from their own sources that the former Russian mafia leader Vyacheslav “Yaponchik” Ivankov entrusted Ginzburg with the role of “the head of the family”. FBI agents are also looking for Victor Vulf and Alexander Gribov. Vulf and his wife Natalia opened several fictitious building firms in the US. After amassing about $50 million the couple then fled the US for Russia.
Alexander Gribov, like Victor Vulf, is a financial swindler. He faked the existence of a network of medical centers in the US in order to claim insurance money for fictitious treatments and made $2,5 million. According to FBI information, Gribov is now living in Russia.
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