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Money men spill beans.

A financial analysis of EA's bank vaults has let slip that Godfather 2 is in development.

The paper was put together by Nollenberger Capital Partners to help investors make tricky decisions, and was based on going behind the scenes at the publishing giant.

"Interestingly, we learned that EA is leveraging the significant amount of development time and costs that went into The Godfather game," it read. "The open-world engine was built from the ground up for Godfather, and is now being used by five different franchises, including The Simpsons."

"Godfather 2 is also in development currently, though timing is unknown."

Although EA wasn't able to comment on any of this, it shouldn't really come as too much of a surprise, given that executive producer David DeMartini told the BBC last year that it planned to do second and third instalments.

Nothing has been said about platforms or content, but we expect next/current/whatever-you-want-to-call-it generation consoles will be the focus and that the sandbox third-person gameplay will return.

What would you like to see this time around?

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windflaw #1 5 years ago

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It'd be nice if all those 'Eurogamer Info' dropdowns were combined into one somehow...
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indian23 #2 5 years ago

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YES YES YES

THIS GAME WAS SO GOOD
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souljacker2000 #3 5 years ago

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I have never played godfather didnt seem to great to me... was it any good? Would a second one b as good/cack?
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indian23 #4 5 years ago

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if you were a fan the game was pure excellence

Edited by 2 at 17/05/07 @ 15:19
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peterfll #5 5 years ago

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What would I like to see this time?

Something a little less MEH.
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peterfll #6 5 years ago

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Fan? Of the films? If you're a fan of the films that means you'll automatically enjoy the game? I think not!
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urban #7 5 years ago

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hooray another terrible godfather game.
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The-Bodybuilder #8 5 years ago

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godfather 2007, 2008, 2009, e.t.c.
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rock27gr #9 5 years ago

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Don't forget Godfather World Cup edition, were all your favourite characters fix the next world cup tournament so as to make billions!
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MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #10 5 years ago

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so is indian23 just a troll, or did he work on the Godfather game?

I'd like to see Al Pacino jumping over buildings in a single bound and hefting cars into his dirty betraying cousin's face.

And a bit where you can kick Sofia Coppola off the side of an apartment building, then detonate her corpse with limpet mines.
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Waldo #11 5 years ago

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Maybe make it less like a GTA clone and a little more like the source material?

Or maybe more like Mafia?
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smelly #12 5 years ago

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>Something a little less MEH.

See that makes me wonder if you've ever played it?

To me it was great. I dont understand why people slag it off?
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indian23 #13 5 years ago

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Nah i am a genuine fan who loved the movie to game adaption
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DUFFMAN5 #14 5 years ago

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Smelly + Indian23
You are right it is a great game, spent many hours on it, got to be the Don. For the 2nd outing it would be good to have more varied interior and a wider range of cars, which all handled great. Bring it. But EA please maks Simpsons great,..... just please!
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spongebob #15 5 years ago

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NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please EA, even if the game was ok, leave the license alone, will you? Although, I guess they paid pretty penny for it and want to milk it for years to come
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zuljin #16 5 years ago

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Yea I actually REALLY enjoyed it... Looking forward to round two of this. My only real issue with the game as a whole was that after you finished, theres bugger all to do. In Spiderman the mechanics of slinging make it fun for ages afterwards, and ditto for Crackdown... I finished this and got unlimited ammunition, which was fun for about 3 minutes and 37 seconds.

Am surprised they are doing sequel though, the first ran into massive money troubles I thought? And then various delays/slippages...
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smelly #17 5 years ago

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Im guessing people see that it is an EA game, and it's kinda like gta (ish), and the screenshots didnt look great.

- and immediately presume its crap?

I'm playing the wii version and loving it. And (as a general rule of thumb) I dont normally like shooting/driving games.
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