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SMS The Godfather reviewed in German magazine?
Post Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 6:10 pm
Last edited by Bock on Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:49 pm; edited 1 time in total
A website listing magazine contents:

http://www.kultpower.de/external_frameset.php3?site=%2Fvideogames_datenbank.php3...

Master System 41%
Hersteller: US Gold
Zirka-Preis: 90 DM

Grafik: 59%
Musik: 52%
Soundeffekte: 31%

So I guess we're not missing anything great, but it means that they had a prototype of this game at some point.
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Post Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 6:29 pm
I got that issue. I'll look it up : )
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Post Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 6:44 pm
Nice issue. ^ ^

They reviewed Streets of Rage II for MD but used a Prototype or Beta for the review so it only got 78/100 :-\

Back on topic: That definitly looks like a SMS game. They got three screenshots. I'll do a scan of that review later on and I could also translate the text.
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Post Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:56 am
... Yes, scans could be REALY nice :)

I've try a e-mail to Eidos (they re-buy US GOLD i know).
Probably no answer but we will see.
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Post Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:20 pm
http://www.dcevolution.net/dsdevelopment/contributor/godfather-sms-shots.part1.r...
http://www.dcevolution.net/dsdevelopment/contributor/godfather-sms-shots.part2.r...
http://www.dcevolution.net/dsdevelopment/contributor/godfather-sms-shots.part3.r...
http://www.dcevolution.net/dsdevelopment/contributor/godfather-sms-shots.part4.r...

Bad scan:
http://www.dcevolution.net/dsdevelopment/contributor/godfather-sms.jpg

I will upload the PSD these days and translate the review.

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Post Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 8:53 pm
Awesome, Christus! I'm looking forward to reading your translation.

If my high-school German class hasn't failed me, the review dismisses it as a boring game with little variation in game play - you just keep shooting the same gangsters over and over with a lame bonus level here and there to break up the monotony. The reviewer also complains of the game trivializing the content of the movie, but that's to be expected, isn't it? He must be a Godfather fan.

I wonder how close to a finished product the reviewed copy was. I remember playing a beta of Shinobi III (I think it was called Super Shinobi II) that looked very close to the final game but the beta lacked the many gameplay tweaks that were in the final and it was a lot less fun to play. The horseback sequence just goes on forever in the beta version.
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Post Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 3:12 pm
Scans from the Streets of Rage 2 proto and any other prototype review woul be nice as well.
 
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Post Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 12:07 pm
A video from The Godfather was posted here:
https://www.smspower.org/forums/19344-TheGodfatherForMasterSystemUnreleased#1242...
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