EA appear to be ramping up the hype with the approach of a full Godfather unveiling, scheduled appropriately for New York's Little Italy district next Thursday. Present at the luscious introduction, will be some of the Hollywood talent from the movie enlisted for the game - namely James Caan and Robert Duvall. Said actors likenesses and voices will be used throughout the game to add addles of atmosphere and authenticity, and EA also revealed that the great man himself - Marlon Brando - recorded his own dialogue prior to his death last year. Nino Rota's gripping soundtrack will also add to what already sounds like a highly potent gaming experience, being created at EA's Redwood Shores studio as we speak.

The game will be released on the PS2, Xbox, PC and PSP this coming Autumn, and is set in New York between 1945-55, initially placing the player as a low-down hoodlum, working the streets GTA-style, extorting, robbing, bribing, dealing, et al - before joining the upper ranks of the Corleone family where bigger aspirations endure. EA are promising a highly open-ended and 'free' experience, offering "gamers countless choices for solving the family's problems with brutal violence, skilful diplomacy, or a cunning mixture of both," also pledging that "decisions made by the player in the game will have lasting consequences."

We'll bring you more on this irrefutable offer as we get it (just thought I'd get that in before the inevitable ads bag it first).

By Luke Guttridge

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