Exclusive Crew Member, Tommy Cipolla, is Available Upon Pre-Order\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sydney, Australia \u2013 February 2 , 2009 \u2013 Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and Paramount Digital Entertainment have announced that The Godfather\u00ae II videogame will be available in Australian retail stores on February 26th.\u00a0 The Godfather II allows players to both act like a mobster and think like a Don, by immersing them in a 1960\u2019s organized crime world.\u00a0 As a Don, players can build a crew and grow their family in an effort to become the most powerful mob syndicate in America.\u00a0 Players will be able to choose how and when to use their Made men, either by commanding them directly in battle as part of their crew, or by sending them to do a job in another part of the world \u2013 bombing rival family rackets, attacking their businesses, or defending your own.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Players who pre-order The Godfather II at participating retailers worldwide will receive an exclusive crew member, named Tommy Cipolla, to hire into their family.\u00a0 While the other soldiers at the start of the game come equipped with one specialty and level-one firearms, Tommy will be the only crew member to possess two specialties \u2013 arsonist and medic \u2013 as well as carry a level-two double-barreled shotgun.\u00a0 With Tommy in your family, players will have a strategic advantage in the game, using his advanced skills either directly in battle, or sending him to take over and defend rackets on his own.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Godfather II takes the open-world genre in an entirely new direction.\u00a0 Part of the fascination with The Godfather fiction is the feeling of power that comes with being the Don of an organized crime family \u2013 and The Godfather II game puts the control in your hands.\u00a0 While at its heart The Godfather II remains an action game, it also features deep new strategic gameplay mechanics never before seen in an open-world game.\u00a0 The strategic elements to the game allow you to extend the fantasy of building and running your own organized crime family.\u00a0 This means that you have to build and invest in your family, manage your businesses, and reach out to corrupt officials \u2013 all of which is done through the revolutionary Don\u2019s View.\u00a0 The Don\u2019s View is a 3D representation of your criminal empire in all three cities; it allows you to coordinate your strategy, plan hits on rival Made men, attack enemy rackets, and much more.\u00a0 The Godfather II delivers the ultimate organized crime experience by allowing you to call the shots.<\/p>\n
Developed at the EA Redwood Stores studio, The Godfather II will be coming to the Xbox 360\u00ae videogame and entertainment system, PLAYSTATION\u00ae3 computer entertainment system, and PC. The Godfather II has been rated MA15+.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
For more information about The Godfather franchise, please visit http:\/\/godfather2.ea.com<\/a> and\/or the EA press website at http:\/\/info.ea.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Exclusive Crew Member, Tommy Cipolla, is Available Upon Pre-Order\u00a0 Sydney, Australia \u2013 February 2 , 2009 \u2013 Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and Paramount Digital Entertainment have announced that The Godfather\u00ae II videogame will be available in Australian retail stores on February 26th.\u00a0 The Godfather II allows players to both act like a mobster and<\/p>\n