the Godfather game

[Dgenatron]

being a big fan of the movies I am eagerly awaiting for this game. I wonder what it is goign to be like, probably like GTA I suppose. But I dont' know if that good orbad since not many games are better than GTa anyway

 

[Icarusintel]

looks crap, they're even taking out brando's voiceovers, which makes me sad, besides, i doubt it will be nearly as interesting or complex as the movies... just shooting and driving, and i did that in Mafia

 

[Asknoone]

Going to be crap.

 

[G-Dub]

Looks more like mafia than GTA (for obvious reasons).


It may well be another movie-to-game conversion ****-up, or it may turn out alright, we'll have to see!

 

[Dalamari]

I smell a big load of shat with this game

 

[Foxtrot]

I smell a big load of shat with this game

I am too lazy to PM, get on xfire, I need a sig
Also, this game is going to blow.

 

[StardogChampion]

I can't think of one movie > game that made a good transition. Based on that fact this game will stink.

 

[DeusExMachina]

Who knows, it might pull a Butcher Bay and be the game everyone talks about.

 

[Dgenatron]

looks crap, they're even taking out brando's voiceovers, which makes me sad

Really? Why are they doing that? Watching Brando reprise his role as the Godfather is one of the main reasons I wanted to play this game!!

 

[Javert]

They're taking out his voice cause he was hooked up to an oxygen system to help him breathe back then.

I think it's gonna be bad based on the video footage. On one hand, it's TOO much like GTA down to the chime and "RESPECT +" when you complete a mission. On the other hand it's only semi-accurate, for Corleone never asked for "protection money" in the films nor book.

 

[Dalamari]

If I get to see Don Fannucci running through the streets with his throat slit, I will buy it

Vito...just hiding in the shadows holding groceries...

 

[OCybrManO]

I can't think of one movie > game that made a good transition. Based on that fact this game will stink.

Spiderman 2 (console version)
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
There have been some great Star Wars games... like KotOR, Rogue Squadron, Shadows of the Empire (N64), X-Wing vs Tie Fighter, and the last couple of Jedi Knight games.
A couple of the LotR games were pretty good.
How can you forget the N64 GoldenEye?
Alien vs. Predator (well, based on a mix of two movies... then a similar idea was later made into a movie)
I enjoyed the old "Die Hard Trilogy" game on the Playstation.

Being a movie first doesn't make it a bad game... it's the publisher/developer trying to make easy money by churning out a quick game (or just being bad at their job) that turns it into a crap game... which is often the case.

 

[StardogChampion]

Spiderman 2 (console version)
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
There have been some great Star Wars games... like KotOR, Rogue Squadron, Shadows of the Empire (N64), X-Wing vs Tie Fighter, and the last couple of Jedi Knight games.
A couple of the LotR games were pretty good.
How can you forget the N64 GoldenEye?
Alien vs. Predator (well, based on a mix of two movies... then a similar idea was later made into a movie)
I enjoyed the old "Die Hard Trilogy" game on the Playstation.

Being a movie first doesn't make it a bad game... it's the publisher/developer trying to make easy money by churning out a quick game (or just being bad at their job) that turns it into a crap game... which is often the case.

Spiderman - Nooooo. Lame
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay - Debatable. I thought it was lame.
Star Wars - Most aren't totally based on what happened in the movies. They just borrow the universe then do their own thing.
LOTR games - No, just... no.
Die Hard - Never liked that. 3 dodgy games sewn together.
I'll give you Goldeneye, but again, Alien Vs Predator wasn't based on the movies like you said.

As far as I know The Godfather game is based on the story from the movie.

 

[<RJMC>]

something true is that I consider interesting that EA is making a game of a old but very aclaimed movie that some higly popular movie like ithey allways do

 

[OCybrManO]

Spiderman - Nooooo. Lame
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay - Debatable. I thought it was lame.
Star Wars - Most aren't totally based on what happened in the movies. They just borrow the universe then do their own thing.
LOTR games - No, just... no.
Die Hard - Never liked that. 3 dodgy games sewn together.
I'll give you Goldeneye, but again, Alien Vs Predator wasn't based on the movies like you said.

As far as I know The Godfather game is based on the story from the movie.

So, because they didn't fit your tastes they are automatically bad games? All of the games mentioned got at least decent reviews. If you don't like them that's too bad... but a lot of people did like them.

Also, you're confusing games based on movies with games that are direct replicas of movies. Games and movies are completely different mediums. You don't tell stories the same way. It just doesn't work. You wouldn't want to sit through a game with your character talking to people with no action for most of the game... would you? Then, if you cut out all the non-action scenes you're left with like 30 minutes to an hour of action to work with (or less depending on the movie). Even if you leave everything in you still have an extremely short game. Who wants to pay $50 for a game that lasts around 2 hours? The only way to really make them work as games is to change them to fit the way games work. The best thing to do is something like the Chronicles of Riddick or Star Wars games... take the characters/settings/universe and make up new events (ones that work better in the format of a video game) that fit in with the old story. They could happen simultaneously (Enter the Matrix... the gameplay was crap but the idea wasn't bad) or at a different time (like Knights of the Old Republic). Sure, you can have tie-ins that include scenes from the movie but they'll probably end up being a relatively small portion of the game just because of the average lengths of movies and games. If you don't make up new stuff you'll be stuck in the same old movie scenes for hours on end doing the same crap over and over again.

Even all of the Godfather movies combined don't have enough action to make a single, great game without adding stuff that doesn't happen in the movies (or just isn't shown in the movies).

EDIT: Here are the average ratings (according to GameRankings.com) for the games I mentioned... the ones you said were crap.
Spiderman 2 - 81.7% (GC) to 83.7% (Xbox)
Chronicle of Riddick - 88.5% (Xbox) and 91.1% (PC)
Die Hard Trilogy - 88.8% (Playstation)
LotR 2 - 77.4% (Xbox) to 82.8% (PS2)
LotR 3 - ~85% for all console versions

 

[CrazyHarij]

Coppola himself said that the game sucked, so I'm not expecting much from it...

 

[Javert]

Coppola himself said that the game sucked, so I'm not expecting much from it...

Then again, I'd trust Miyamoto's word more when it comes to video games. But yeah I can imagine why he wouldn't like it.
Here's another thing: It's gonna be one of EA's few M-rated game, according to Gamespot.

 

[StardogChampion]

So, because they didn't fit your tastes they are automatically bad games? All of the games mentioned got at least decent reviews. If you don't like them that's too bad... but a lot of people did like them.

Also, you're confusing games based on movies with games that are direct replicas of movies. Games and movies are completely different mediums. You don't tell stories the same way. It just doesn't work. You wouldn't want to sit through a game with your character talking to people with no action for most of the game... would you? Then, if you cut out all the non-action scenes you're left with like 30 minutes to an hour of action to work with (or less depending on the movie). Even if you leave everything in you still have an extremely short game. Who wants to pay $50 for a game that lasts around 2 hours? The only way to really make them work as games is to change them to fit the way games work. The best thing to do is something like the Chronicles of Riddick or Star Wars games... take the characters/settings/universe and make up new events (ones that work better in the format of a video game) that fit in with the old story. They could happen simultaneously (Enter the Matrix... the gameplay was crap but the idea wasn't bad) or at a different time (like Knights of the Old Republic). Sure, you can have tie-ins that include scenes from the movie but they'll probably end up being a relatively small portion of the game just because of the average lengths of movies and games. If you don't make up new stuff you'll be stuck in the same old movie scenes for hours on end doing the same crap over and over again.

Even all of the Godfather movies combined don't have enough action to make a single, great game without adding stuff that doesn't happen in the movies (or just isn't shown in the movies).

EDIT: Here are the average ratings (according to GameRankings.com) for the games I mentioned... the ones you said were crap.
Spiderman 2 - 81.7% (GC) to 83.7% (Xbox)
Chronicle of Riddick - 88.5% (Xbox) and 91.1% (PC)
Die Hard Trilogy - 88.8% (Playstation)
LotR 2 - 77.4% (Xbox) to 82.8% (PS2)
LotR 3 - ~85% for all console versions

It's not me that's confusing games based on movies with games that follow the story of the movies. Like I said previously, The Godfather is based on the story from the movie as far as I've read. KOTOR was not based on any Star Wars movie, AvP was not based on the movies. And for the others, they're just not good games. I don't see how anyone can think the LOTR games are good. I've played the last 2 of them (my 13 year old cousin owns them, go figure) and they're horrible.

I'm not even going to comment on the gamerankings average score, since I searched for Call of Duty and it got 92%.

 

[OCybrManO]

When they say "based on" that doesn't mean the story is necessarily going to follow the same route. It means they just used it as a starting point from which to build the game. It could be very close but it doesn't have to be that way.

For example, all three of the following movies were "based on" the serial killer, Ed Gein:
Psycho
Silence of the Lambs
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Apart from them all being horror movies and having a crazy character that murders people and does things with dead bodies... there's not much those three movies have in common. Telling the story as-is just wouldn't work as well. They had to change/add a lot to make it something worth watching... just as games based on movies have to do to make them worth playing.

The Star Wars games were based on the movies in that they follow the same rules around which the movies were built. They use a lot of the same (or similar) settings from the movies. They have some of the same races. They still have Jedi characters. They're based on the same imaginary universe seen in the movies, they just play out through events that didn't happen during the movies... in the same way that the Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay takes place somewhere before what happens in the movie.

IMO, the closer the game is to the movie... the less the game is actually a game and just more like a slightly interactive movie. What it comes down to is the purists want the story to stay untouched and the gamers want the gameplay to be fun... but satisfying both in addition to having the game last as long as normal games is practically impossible. Either way, this one is probably going to suck.

EDIT: ... and what's wrong with Call of Duty? Just for comparison, which games do you actually like?