The Godfather II is a 2009 developed by and published by . It was released for , , and in April. Based on the 1974 film , it is the sequel to the 2006 game , which was based on the 1972 . Like the first game, The Godfather II follows a non-canon character, Dominic, who is initially the protégé and of the original game's protagonist, Aldo Trapani. After Aldo is killed, Dominic is placed in charge of the 's operations in and tasked with expanding the Corleone empire by taking out their rivals. Unlike the first game, which was primarily set in New York, the story also spans into and .The Godfather II is an and played from a , in which the player controls Dominic, an original character created for the game, who becomes the of the in , and 's . The basic and fall into the subgenre of , as the player can travel throughout the game world freely, commandeer vehicles, do whatever they want in terms of attacking and/or killing innocent civilians, and progress through the storyline at their own leisure, spending as much time traversing the city as they wish.
