The Godfather (2006 video game)

This article is about the 2006 video game. For the 1991 video game, see The Godfather (1991 video game).

The Godfather
Developer(s)EA Redwood Shores (Wii, Xbox 360 & PS3)
Headgate Studios (Windows)
Page 44 Studios (PS2, PSP & Xbox)
Publisher(s)Electronic Arts
Producer(s)Hunter Smith
Designer(s)
Artist(s)Margaret Foley-Mauvais Nino rota
Writer(s)
Composer(s)
SeriesThe Godfather
EngineRenderWare[8]
Platform(s)
Release
March 21, 2006
  • PlayStation 2, Windows, Xbox
    • NA: March 21, 2006
    • AU: March 23, 2006
    • EU: March 24, 2006
    PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360
    • NA: September 19, 2006
    • EU: September 22, 2006[1][2]
    • AU: September 28, 2006[3]
    Wii
    • NA: March 20, 2007
    • AU: March 22, 2007[4]
    • EU: March 23, 2007
    PlayStation 3
    • NA: March 20, 2007
    • AU: March 29, 2007[5]
    • EU: April 20, 2007[6]
Genre(s)Action-adventure
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer[a]

The Godfather is a 2006 action-adventure video game developed by EA Redwood Shores and published by Electronic Arts. It was originally released in March 2006 for Windows, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. It was later released for the PlayStation Portable (as The Godfather: Mob Wars), Xbox 360, Wii (as The Godfather: Blackhand Edition), and PlayStation 3 (as The Godfather: The Don's Edition).

Based upon the 1972 film The Godfather, the game follows a non-canon character, Aldo Trapani, who is recruited into the Corleone family and works his way up its ranks while seeking revenge against his father's killers. The story of the game intersects with the film on numerous occasions, depicting major events from Aldo's perspective, or showing him perform actions that happened off-screen; for example, he avenges Bonasera's daughter, kills Luca Brasi's assassin, drives Vito Corleone to the hospital after he is shot, plants the gun for Michael Corleone to kill Sollozzo and Captain McCluskey, and places the horse's head in Jack Woltz's bed. Although the game was condemned by Francis Ford Coppola, who claimed Paramount never told him about its development or asked for his input, it does feature voice acting from several stars of the film, including James Caan as Sonny Corleone, Robert Duvall as Tom Hagen and Abe Vigoda as Salvatore Tessio. Marlon Brando also recorded dialogue for Vito Corleone, in what would be his final acting job, but his ill health made most of his recordings unusable.

The Godfather received generally positive reviews across most systems, although the PlayStation Portable version was commonly seen as inferior to the others. The game was a commercial success, selling over two million units. A sequel, based on the 1974 film, The Godfather Part II, was released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows in 2009, but it received mixed reviews and did not sell as well as the first game, causing EA to scrap plans for an adaptation of the third film.[9]

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  2. ^ "The Godfather". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on July 2, 2015. Retrieved July 11, 2024.
  3. ^ Jastrzab, Jeremy (August 28, 2006). "Updated Australian release list, 28/08/06". PALGN. Archived from the original on September 2, 2006. Retrieved July 11, 2024.
  4. ^ Jastrzab, Jeremy (March 19, 2007). "Updated Australian release list, 19/03/07". PALGN. Archived from the original on March 24, 2007. Retrieved July 11, 2024.
  5. ^ "New Releases". Gameplanet. Archived from the original on April 18, 2007. Retrieved July 11, 2024.
  6. ^ Bramwell, Tom (April 20, 2007). "What's New? (20th April, 2007)". Eurogamer. Retrieved July 11, 2024.
  7. ^ Campbell, Philip (January 13, 2006). "The Godfather Designer Diary #2 - Film to Video Game". GameSpot. Retrieved June 9, 2015.
  8. ^ "Fixing game-breaking issues in The Godfather: The Game - Part 1". Silent's Blog. May 18, 2018. Retrieved March 16, 2022.
  9. ^ "EA buries Godfather franchise". GameSpot. June 9, 2009. Retrieved June 17, 2015.


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