"The Godfather"
The Godfather feature on IGN.
This is interesting to me because just last night I was thinking about Rome: Total War and how you could make a mafia/Godfather-style RTS game, where you take over territory and manage your resources and your influence and build up the strength of your family versus the other families.
I was thinking it would be cool to start in 1917 when Vito Corleone was getting started, and build your empire from the ground up, with the option to expand to Havana and Las Vegas and Florida and across the country or the world.
And you could decide which "industries" to specialize in for each territory: drugs, gambling, extortion, etc.
And you could have "Generals" or Capos with different specialties, in charge of your territories. One Capo might be a genteel smooth-talker who's good at diplomacy and negotiation. Another might be a brutish thug like Sonny Corleone.
And you'd need to manage your relationship with the law, by managing payments to police, judges, politicians. And the law enforcement could have their own personalities too. So if you had the violent tactless thug Sonny Corleone in charge of a territory, he might not be able to bribe its police effectively. And that kind of thing could go for the relationships with other families too. Depending on their personality, he might be able to intimidate them--or it could turn into a gang war, like in the movie.
Like in "Rome: Total War", you could have territories that aren't controlled by a family Capo if you don't have enough Capos to go around, but you might have significantly less control over that area. Like you couldn't micromanage the industries/crimes and soldier recruitment.
Sounds like the new "Godfather" game is quite a different beast but I'm encouraged by what they're describing as the "living world" and "sandbox" aspects of it.
Jeff
This is interesting to me because just last night I was thinking about Rome: Total War and how you could make a mafia/Godfather-style RTS game, where you take over territory and manage your resources and your influence and build up the strength of your family versus the other families.
I was thinking it would be cool to start in 1917 when Vito Corleone was getting started, and build your empire from the ground up, with the option to expand to Havana and Las Vegas and Florida and across the country or the world.
And you could decide which "industries" to specialize in for each territory: drugs, gambling, extortion, etc.
And you could have "Generals" or Capos with different specialties, in charge of your territories. One Capo might be a genteel smooth-talker who's good at diplomacy and negotiation. Another might be a brutish thug like Sonny Corleone.
And you'd need to manage your relationship with the law, by managing payments to police, judges, politicians. And the law enforcement could have their own personalities too. So if you had the violent tactless thug Sonny Corleone in charge of a territory, he might not be able to bribe its police effectively. And that kind of thing could go for the relationships with other families too. Depending on their personality, he might be able to intimidate them--or it could turn into a gang war, like in the movie.
Like in "Rome: Total War", you could have territories that aren't controlled by a family Capo if you don't have enough Capos to go around, but you might have significantly less control over that area. Like you couldn't micromanage the industries/crimes and soldier recruitment.
Sounds like the new "Godfather" game is quite a different beast but I'm encouraged by what they're describing as the "living world" and "sandbox" aspects of it.
Jeff
