Oh! There he is!
If The Godfather game didn't let you fulfill all of your mobster dreams, you'll have another, more modern chance come fall: The Sopranos is being made into a game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2.
The game's producer tells GameDaily.Biz: " 'You'll need to use the right mix of verbal intimidation, physical force, and outright brutal violence to accomplish your varied missions.' Dahm added that players will be able to break arms, slams heads into walls, and cause cosmetic and 'performance' damage to their opponents, as well as use firearms when you have no other choice." In other words, it's exactly the same as The Godfather game.
Sopranos creator David Chase supervised the original script and an HBO executive pays lip service to maintaining the "integrity, vision and intensity of the series," but don't bet on it. The Godfather game is pretty fun, but in terms of story and faithfulness to the movie it mostly turns everything and everyone into a caricature. The New York accents seem even more exaggerated than in the movie, and the mobspeak cliches are all you hear. The Sopranos has never fallen into the mob movie trap (it's very hard to watch the overstylized, over-mythologized GoddFellas, Donnie Brasco, even the Godfathers after seeing the show), but it'll take a lot of work to make the game into more than a batch of accents and one-liners. (Also this screen shot isn't very inspiring. Only Christopher looks like the real person.)
No word yet on whether you get to play a side mission as Vito going leather-bar hopping.
The game's producer tells GameDaily.Biz: " 'You'll need to use the right mix of verbal intimidation, physical force, and outright brutal violence to accomplish your varied missions.' Dahm added that players will be able to break arms, slams heads into walls, and cause cosmetic and 'performance' damage to their opponents, as well as use firearms when you have no other choice." In other words, it's exactly the same as The Godfather game.
Sopranos creator David Chase supervised the original script and an HBO executive pays lip service to maintaining the "integrity, vision and intensity of the series," but don't bet on it. The Godfather game is pretty fun, but in terms of story and faithfulness to the movie it mostly turns everything and everyone into a caricature. The New York accents seem even more exaggerated than in the movie, and the mobspeak cliches are all you hear. The Sopranos has never fallen into the mob movie trap (it's very hard to watch the overstylized, over-mythologized GoddFellas, Donnie Brasco, even the Godfathers after seeing the show), but it'll take a lot of work to make the game into more than a batch of accents and one-liners. (Also this screen shot isn't very inspiring. Only Christopher looks like the real person.)
No word yet on whether you get to play a side mission as Vito going leather-bar hopping.
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