Kicking ass and taking names in on its way to #2 is EA’s The Godfather. Grand Theft Auto style action set in old school Newy York. Welcome to the Corleone family. After a life of small-time jobs and petty thefts you’ve been accepted into America’s most famous criminal organization.

Now it’s up to you the plyer to carry out orders, earn respect, rise through the ranks, and make New York City your own. Play your cards right and you could even be running everything as the next, and most powerful, Don.

A story about family, respect and loyalty, The Godfather book by Mario Puzo and film by Paramount Pictures serve as inspiration for the game as you join the Corleone family and earn respect through loyalty and fear as you rise through the ranks to become Don in a living, 1945-1955 New York.

The Godfather video game puts players at the center of action in one of history’s most revered cinematic masterpieces, allowing you to create yourself in the game, and then choose your path as you rise from lowly outsider to envied and feared Don.

Players will use their powers of loyalty and fear to earn respect through interactions with characters in the world. Decisions made by the player in the game will have lasting consequences, because this is aa gameworld that remembers.

This game is totally going to chew you up, spit you out, and then trample all over your decaying cells with it’s tenacious nature. I hope to see all my readers standing out in the freezing cold begging for the store to open so they can get their grubby little hands on it and kick some arse.

Posted below is a screenshot which will ink you to IGN’s Web site for more screenshots.

The Godfather comes out March 21, 2006