Electronic Arts and Paramount Digital Entertainment have announced that The Godfather II videogame is set for release in the UK on March 6th for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. The Godfather II allows players to both act like a mobster and think like a Don, by immersing them in a 1960’s organized crime world.

As a Don, players can build a crew and grow their family in an effort to become the most powerful mob syndicate in America. Players will be able to choose how and when to use their Made men, either by commanding them directly in battle as part of their crew, or by sending them to do a job in another part of the world – bombing rival family rackets, attacking their businesses, or defending your own.

The Godfather II takes the open-world genre in an entirely new direction. While at its heart The Godfather II remains an action game, it also features deep new strategic gameplay mechanics never before seen in an open-world game. The strategic elements to the game allow you to extend the fantasy of building and running your own organized crime family.

This means that you have to build and invest in your family, manage your businesses, and reach out to corrupt officials – all of which is done through the revolutionary Don’s View. The Don’s View is a 3D representation of your criminal empire in all three cities; it allows you to coordinate your strategy, plan hits on rival Made men, attack enemy rackets, and much more.