Our friends at GameTrailers.com have a new trailer for The Godfather II that showcases an interesting feature coming to the EA franchise: Don Control. The multiplayer feature offers what looks to be an RTS-style control system where one person hosting an online match can place bets on the match (that will in turn carry over into the single-player campaign), issue commands to their human teammates (should they cooperate, that is) and follow individuals of their choosing from a third-person perspective.
Rather than phoning in the de rigeur multiplayer, it seems as though EA has taken the extra time afforded them by the game being pushed back to beef up a very different experience than what the single-player campaign offers. To see exactly what we're talking about, hit the break to check out the trailer.
I'm gonna call it right now: interesting ideas, but ruined by the action part of the game being extremely iffy and mediocre, and a general lack of polish. 7.8
Oh, and the whole "you play an RTS with REAL PLAYERS!" idea has been done before, google "Savage 2: A Tortured Soul". It's free to play, if you like, so you can get an idea of what it's like. Rohan was pretty much correct, though, people do jack-all to listen to the commander.
I can refuse it. I stopped buying PS2 games when I got a 360. There's a difference between stylized, simplistic graphics and just lazy, plain ol' shitty looking textures; and this is the latter!
I think "graphics" is a tired argument these days.
When we were at the Master System -> MegaDrive or the SNES -> N64 transition it was a big deal, but not anymore. I'm sure when we go PS3 -> PS4 it will be another step up.
Sure some games look amazing (looking at you Killzone 2) but almost all games look great compared to the last gen, and as long as they don't look specifically horrible they don't detract from the gameplay. That's the important thing, the gameplay.
If this game is as fun as the last Godfather game it will surely rock! Providing there are more than 4 buildings repeated over and over this time. And hopefully more than 5 different cars.
I personally have been looking forward to this game since the last Godfather game and can't wait to get my sweaty hands on it.
