Godfather II

Expected release date: 02/09

Features: You can build your crime family online by having your friends join your mob. Sweet!! Apparently, as Don, you're given much more control over how you can run the family.

From Xbox.com:

On the eve of the Cuban revolution, a major mob meeting in Havana takes a bloody turn in The Godfather® II. The Don of your family is killed in Cuba, and you must take the reins and lead your battered organization and reestablish the Corleone powerbase in Queens. Success breeds opportunity, so Hyman Roth invites you to expand and support him in South Florida, setting up some key choices about your longer term allegiance. When Michael Corleone comes under investigation by a Senate Committee on Organized Crime, you're tapped to run the family and Tom Hagen moves into your organization.

Build your arsenal, command your crew, establish your crime rings, and stack your pockets with favors from those in positions of influence as you fight off attacks and strike back at your rivals. The Godfather always has a price on his head and a target on his back, but don't take it personally. After all, it's only business.

By the sound of that, I really hope the game doesn't end up being a game where you travel from Queens to S. Florida and then all of a sudden back to Queens, only to find that another gang completely destroyed your house and gang etc...while you were gone. Games like that are annoying, when you're constantly trying to keep enemies off your back. You don't have any time to actually enjoy the game. EA Redwood Shores is developing the game, does anybody remember who did the first Godfather game? I don't think it was EA. This could be good or bad. Oh and props to whoever designed this wicked cover art. Love it!!