The Lost Don

The Godfather: The Game crosses the Corleones and gets away with it.

The Godfather: The Game --gets almost everything about The Godfather, the movie, exactly wrong. And yet it's enjoyable and entertaining. That contradiction won't surprise anyone who's played any of the multitudes of games that have been adapted from well-known films, but it does illustrate something that often goes overlooked: The rules and the fiction that make up a game are distinct, if interdependent, elements. And more often than not, while the fiction can make a game more interesting, it's the rules—and the gameplay that emerges from them—that make a game fun.
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