ORIGINAL: Eddie_the_Hated
Ahh so that explains the Wii games drought!!! But even that hasn' t stopped the Wii.
A lack of EA games = A lack of good games?
Sorry, they' re like the Wal-Mart of the industry, can' t help myself.
What was The Godfather like? A mini-review perhaps?
Ok if you can move past the ps2 graphics this game is awesome. I haven' t played the original games on other platforms so i can' t tell you exactly how much content has been added, so if you played this game already i am not suggesting you buy it unless you loved the game and are intersted in how much different it would play with the Wiimote.
All i can really comment on are the controls which i think are the only thing that seperate it from the other Godfather games.
Shooting can be done in 2 ways, Auto lock or free aim. Auto lock means that your target recticle will aim at the nearest enemy and is activated by pressing the Z button. But it only aims at the targets body, if you wish to aim at other parts like the head (instant kill), arms (to shoot weapon out of hand) or legs (to stop target from running) you can move the target recticle aroundto aim for these specific areas.
Free Aim mode is activated with the + button and allows you to control you character mouse and keyboard style. It is a little over sensitive so i usually used the Auto lock, but its good should you need to aim for stuff the Auto Lock doesn' t target like exploding barrels, cars etc.
HTH combat is where things get interesting, theres a whole menu section that guides you through all the motion inputs, i ignored this section until very late in the game so i missed out on so many different moves!
Anyway basically the when you Auto Lock a target without a firearm your Wiimote becomes your right fist, and the nunchuk your left fist. It actually works better then Wiiboxing though i didn' t tryout to many different boxing moves, it would have been nice if they added a dummy to practice (though you could practice on a poor unsuspecting passerby). Doing a punching action with the Wiimote makes your right fist punch, doing so with the nunchuk performs a left hand punch. Its note exactly 1 to 1 but its pretty close. You can also do other moves like the over head smash, uppercuts, dodges etc but like i said i missed this part so i have to go back and give it a try some time.
When you have a baseball bat you swing it exactly the way you swing your Wiimote. Swing your Wiimote left to right your character swings the bat left to right, swing the Wiimote up and down, your character swings the bat up & down etc. ITs not perfect one to one but its damn well close enough.
Finally you have grab moves. When you hold both Z & B buttons you grab your target. Not only can you still do punches and hits with the baseball bat like i explained above there are a whole slew of moves. If your close enough to the wall do a pushing motion with both the Nunchuk and the Wiimote and you slam the poor sucker on the wall, you can also release the B Button while doing this to throw them forward. Close to a table, make a sideways motion with both controls slams the targets head on the table, release the B button while doing this move throws the target sideways. Moving the two controls close to your face headbutts the target. You can choke the target by moving the controls apart. When equipped with the Garrote you do the same (when behind target) but you move the controls side to side as you do this to increase the effectiveness of the strangulation, which is closesly mimiced by your character on screen.
There are a lot of controls and execution moves i haven' t tried, so i have to go back and try them, unfortunately i got my Brother hooked on the game
and he hasn' t been interested in any Wiigame so far except for Wiisports. 40 hours of gaming and wanting to go back for more thats pretty good value especially from an EA game. I think IGNs review score of 80/100 is fair, it should lose marks for not much graphical improvement over the ps2 game (the menus are not Wiimote friendly). But for excellent use of the the Wiimote EA deserves praise.
If a company known for its constant sequels can pull off a quick port with Wii controls this good imagine if they actually did something specifically for the Wii.