EA can never be accused of putting too much emphasis on the artistic side of gaming (or anything for that matter), so it’s good to see a real artist letting their frustration with them known. Making their own GTA clone that could sell itself would have been too much work, so lifting one of the great works of modern (ish) cinema must have been the obvious solution. Paramount aren’t much better for actually selling the rights to them, but Paramount deserve credit for putting out The Godfather in the first place.
I’ll be surprised if it’s any more than Driv3r or The Getaway – a pale imitation of Rockstar’s games.