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Developer(s) | EA Redwood Shores(Wii, Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3) Headgate Studios(Microsoft Windows) Page 44 Studios(PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable & Xbox) |
Publisher(s) | Electronic Arts |
Producer(s) | Hunter Smith |
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Artist(s) | Margaret Foley-Mauvais |
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Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii |
Release | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox
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Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer[a] |
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You want to earn some protection money? First you got to find a business ripe for the taking. To extort the owner, you got to convince him that it's in his interest to pay us. Each merchant folds under different kinds of pressure, and everyone has a weakspot [..] The closer you can push a merchant to his breaking point without pushing him over, the more cash you'll take home. But be careful; a man can only take so much. Push them too far, and they'll snap, maybe even take you on.
There are five families out there kid, each controlling their own neighborhood. First, there's the Tattaglias from Brooklyn [..] Look into the face of a Stracci, and you'll see one thing; trouble. You don't want to run into them on a dark night in their New Jersey stronghold [..] Hell's Kitchen is one of the city's toughest neighborhoods, controlled by the Cuneos [..] Midtown is the heart of New York; you got all those famous landmarks that you seen in pictures, plus the biggest hotels, swankiest nightclubs, and the most valuable rackets in town. One family controls Midtown, the Barzinis [..] And finally, there's us, the Corleones. Little Italy used to be our turf, but the rvial families keep moving in and hitting our businesses.
Rackets are all over town, usually in some crappy little shop with a dirty secret. These shops are called fronts, and they're hiding the illegal racket stuff that's being pushed on the streets [..] The more rackets you control, the more cash you'll make for the family.
To be a real earner, you have to find the warehouse supplying the fronts [..] If you take one over, you'll discover where all the liqueur, weapons and other racket merchandise actually arrives in New York; the hubs. Taking over a hub is the key to breaking the rival family's backs.
Be careful out there, if you're thinking of taking out a rival family, they won't take it lying down. Killing rival soldiers and hitting their businesses will cause their vendetta level to rise [..] Earn too much vendetta and you'll start a mob war. During a mob war, every Corleone is a target. They'll hunt us down, and start torching our businesses.
It's the old story kid; make trouble, and the cops are going to be all over you. But the bigger the crime, the more heat that comes down on your head; cops will be everywhere, and they won't be too friendly [..] Each neighborhood is run by a police captain. Grease some palms with this guy, and he'll make sure all his lackeys look the other way if you want to wave your gun around. Hell, they might even fight for you.