Players that deal with the Godfather use Hideouts and Compounds. You can also forget about the lame hotels and houses because those are for ordinary law-abiding people. For example, the Corleone card lets you kidnap an opponent and the Tattaglia card lets its proud owner have a single money laundering opportunity. The game also includes new ‘Don’ cards that let players team up with a particular family, giving them special abilities to use at the right strategic moment. Instead of the familiar ‘Chance’ and ‘Community Chest’ cards, you now have the ‘Friends’ and ‘Enemies’ cards. The special edition game isn’t just about renamed property and unique game pieces though, because the rules are different too, and that’s how it should be when the Family is involved. Leave Boardwalk and Park Place behind for the Corleone Long Island Home and Corleone Lake Tahoe Estate, and forget about tokens that look like boots and puppy dogs because it’s time to step up with the goodfellas big boys and play with a piece of cannoli, a Genco Olive Oil tin, the Don’s limo, a dead fish, a tommy gun, or the horse head… because it wouldn’t be the Godfather without the horse head, would it?
Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather recently celebrated its 40th anniversary, and now you can become a member of the dysfunctional crime family with the Monopoly The Godfather Edition Board Game.
