EA boots The Godfather out of the family?

Posted Jun 6, 2009 at 3:21PM EST by Glenn M.

Listed in: PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: Electronic Arts, Frank Gibeau, Lord of the Rings, Los Angeles, playstation 3 updates, PlayStation Network

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The Godfather may be the boss of the mafia, but he still answers to a bigger boss - his publisher! Despite his swagger and thug-smoking powers, Electronic Arts remains his real Corleone, and according to EA Games' president Frank Gibeau, "We're not going to do another one." After getting rescued by EA Games after his old family, Brash Entertainment, went out of business, the Godfather may need to go look for another family for publishing.

Someone must've forgotten to call Paramount Digital Entertainment, because their rep replied, "Plans for the next Godfather game have not been decided." So now it seems that Gibeau must've slipped a word-misuse that lead to a different meaning than the one he intended. According to this email sent to the Los Angeles Times by an EA publicist, "We do not currently have a Godfather game in development," she said. "Nothing has been decided as to future sequels. Paramount is a great partner."

EA has already dropped major licenses like this one before - James Bond went to Activision back in 2006, and The Lord of the Rings: White Council got halted in 2007. With a lackluster sales performance for Godfather II (Xbox 360, PS3) since its release, it's likely that Godfather's non-publishing could get finalized in a bad way.

EA recalls Godfather II brass knuckles

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I'm surprised that EA greenlighted a 2nd one, as it is. This looks like a pretty-chump game to me, and it certainly didn't get rave reviews (1 or 2). ...Maybe EA pressed-on with two because all of that effort that the creators did with add-on content paid-off a bit. (And they thought they wouldn't mind catching a little more lightning in the bottle.)

Gotta' say that's a pretty stinging slip-of-the-tongue, though. If EA's Pres said that, I'm sure it's what they've internally been thinking (already decided). Big OOPS on not informing their "partners" at Paramount, first.

# Are they out of touch? — GUNBEHINDTHESUN 2009-06-07 04:20

To me the game looks uninteresting. The movies are ok but who on Earth would think of making a game about this. Most people that are interested in the movies are not game players. Maybe they thought that it would be a hit like the GTA series or something, but it looked like a major fail from the beginning.

# Meh All this negativity but... — Uplink 2009-06-07 05:02

I Enjoyed these games, sure the gfx where slightly dated but the game was still fun if you like GTA style games. I guess less and less people like fun games these days sigh.

# I liked them too — Master Chef 2009-06-07 12:44

I think EA was on the right track, but the team they put on these games just wasn't very good. They were still fun to play and had the right idea tho.

And I'm not rly a huge gfx whore if the game is fun to play, but the graphics in the Godfather games are almost unacceptable lol

Whatever, Mafia 2 is coming out. Nuff said

# Sigh... — WarhammerEX 2009-06-08 04:36

One can only imagine how awesome the Godfather franchise would be under the reigns of Bioware, or Bethesda

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