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Plans for "The Godfather" Video Game Confirmed - HOT!Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 @ 03:34:26 am E.S.T
EA's chief financial officer Warren Jenson has revealed that the company is currently working on a game based on Francis Ford Coppola's classic mafia movie The Godfather, marking an unusual foray into mature content for the publisher.
Jenson was speaking at a Bear Stearns conference in the USA, and he devoted some time to discussing the implications of mature content in videogames - telling the audience that "I think that many of you know that we are developing The Godfather."
Following Take-Two's success with Illusion Softworks' ambitious Mafia PC title (recently released on PS2, with an Xbox version due soon), not to mention unparalleled round-the-world sales of the Grand Theft Auto series, it's perhaps unsurprising that EA is looking into this area, and it's equally unsurprising given the publisher's track record that it seems to have secured the "mother of all licences" in the field.
Jenson wouldn't reveal any specifics, but did confirm, since he was on the topic, that the game would "likely" be an M-rated game. In the States, titles rated "M" are not meant to be sold to children under the age of 17. However, while Jenson acknowledged the success of games like GTA, he also added that EA had no plans to produce games featuring "gratuitous sex and violence" of the same calibre.
Source: GamesIndustry.biz
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