20 Games That Made The Movies BETTER

20. The Godfather (2006)

A surprisingly late addition to the canon, arriving 34 years after the release of the iconic film, EA’s The Godfather offers everything you could want from a crime game, never mind a crime movie adaptation.

The game follows the events of the film, but from the perspective of Aldo Trapani, ironically enough something of a Scarface character, who is recruited into the Corleone family and uses every tool at his disposal to gradually work his way up the ranks.

By the inclusion of this non-canon character in a game that otherwise adapts the look, feel and events of the film, we are given a whole new dimension. With the ability to free roam in an open-world version of 1940s NYC, we are granted the kind of wider perspective the film can’t offer, and get to get stuck in with the small potatoes street-level crime that the Corleones control but don’t typically personally handle.

Taking NYC for the family is an experience in itself, and it makes the film world so much bigger and more authentic. Plus the game introduced a whole new, younger generation of fans to Francis Ford Coppola’s epic film.