Been playing an old Xbox 360 sandbox game that is severely underrated: The Godfather. Yes, it's based off of the first movie, and it is an excellent game that has you do all of the things in the movies...along with awesome sandbox/RPG stuff, such as bombing the drug rackets, extorting businesses, killing enemy mobsters in all sorts of cool ways, doing hits, favors, and the like, and taking over all of New York.
Thus far, I have bombed the Tattaglias out of existence (all of their fronts and rackets belong to me, and I bombed their compounds, which now also belong to me). and the Straccis and Cuneos are down to one warehouse, their hub, and their compounds. Had a hell of a time with the first Cuneo warehouse; it's a long way away from any save place, and it's hell to not only extort the owner, but escape them long enough to find an FBI agent to bribe, but I managed to do it!
The Barzinis are gonna be the toughest sons of bitches to handle, though; they have upgraded tommy guns and shotguns, and some of their businesses won't let me politely negotiate (I prefer to get my Respect up as high as I can and see which businesses will let me take over peacefully, then pay the racket boss (if there is one) whatever he wants for me to fully take over).
Definitely planning on doing more missions (with Sonny!!!) and hits (from Rocco) to get as far as I can and extort the last few businesses.
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