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Welcome to the Corleone family. After a life of small-time jobs and petty thefts, you've been accepted into America's most famous criminal organization. Now it's up to you to carry out orders, earn respect, rise through the ranks, and make New York City your own. Play your cards right and you could even be running everything as the next, and most powerful, Don.

A story about family, respect, and loyalty, The Godfather novel by Mario Puzo and film by Paramount Pictures serve as inspiration for the game as you join the Corleone family and earn respect through loyalty and fear as you rise through the ranks to become Don in a living 1945-1955 New York. The Godfather™ The Game puts you at the centre of the action in one of history's most revered cinematic masterpieces, letting youcreate yourself in the game and then choose your path as you rise from lowly outsider to envied and feared Don.

The Godfather™ The Game offers you countless choices for solving the family's problems with brutal violence, skilful diplomacy, or a cunning mixture of both. From mob hits and bank heists to drive-bys and extortion, step deep inside the world of The Godfather where intimidation and negotiation are your tickets to the top.

The Godfather film from Paramount Pictures features some of Hollywood's finest actors, and several have contributed to the game's development. All character likenesses from the movie are included, and lending their voices to add a dramatic and cinematic touch to the game are the late Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone, James Caan as Sonny Corleone, and Robert Duvall as consigliore Tom Hagen.

• Respect and consequences:Players use their powers of loyalty and fear to earn respect throughout New York City. Decisions made by the player in the game have lasting consequences.
• Persistent world of The Godfather:Your character interacts freely with other characters in the world. Depending on your needs and how you choose to play the game—by violent, intimidating, respectful, or negotiating means—the characters in the world will remember your interactions.
• Blackhand controls and Pressure Point targeting:Being a gangster has never felt so good, and Blackhand puts the power of intimidation in the hands of the player. An analog control-based combat system gives players the use of both analog sticks and shoulder buttonsto execute punches, kicks, and grabs, and even lets youstrangleopponents. Pressure Point targeting helps lock on less lethal parts of an opponent's body so they're still around to provide vital information.
• Create the new face of crime:Use the"MobFace" feature to create a new member of the Corleone family with your own tough, street-wise looks. Customize facial features and hair, suit up your created mobster in era clothing, and then lead him through the classic world of The Godfather.
• Control New York:The Corleone family's control of New York is challenged by the four families from the fiction, including the Barzini, Cuneo, Stracci, and Tattaglia families.
• Cinematic music:Academy Award-winning composer Bill Conti and Emmy Award-winning composer Ashley Irwin are collaborating to create more than 100 minutes of new music in addition to the classic soundtrack from the film.

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