Story
The game starts with a cut scene that shows the main character, Aldo Trapani, as a child witnessing his father gunned down in an alley by Emilio Barzini's men, who are the Corleone family's rivals in 1936 New York. Don Vito Corleone, head of the Corleone family, comforts the child, telling him that when he is old enough and the time is right, he will take his revenge. This prompts Trapani's involvement with the family and their business.
The story then fast forwards to 1945, with Connie Corleone's wedding scene from the film The Godfather, where Trapani's mother, Serafina, asks Don Corleone to look after her son, who she claims has fallen with the wrong crowd. Don Corleone sends his enforcer Luca Brasi to find Trapani and teach him the ways of the Mafia. When Brasi finds Trapani, he is being beaten by his fellow gang members, from which Brasi saves him by killing the gang leader with a lead pipe. Brasi then teaches Trapani how to defend himself, and later how to extort businesses.
Mirroring the film, Luca Brasi is later garroted at the meeting with Bruno Tattaglia and Virgil Solozzo, which Trapani witnesses. Trapani kills the assassin but flees to his safehouse, where he attempts to reach Corleone associate Marty "Monk" Malone. After going to a local barber shop, Trapani and Malone witness the shooting of Don Corleone, where Monk is shot and his sister, Frankie Malone, is nearly caught in the crossfire. This is the first meeting between Trapani and Frankie Malone, which starts their relationship. Following this, Trapani helps Fredo Corleone drive Vito to the hospital.
As in the film, Michael Corleone heads to the hospital to protect his father, obtaining the help of Trapani, who had been visiting Monk. The two eventually succeed but are stopped by Captain McCluskey, as in the film. Later, on New Year's Eve, Trapani attends a party where he assassinates police sergeant Joe Galtosino. From this point onward, the player utilizes Trapani to extort businesses, buy out rackets, take over warehouses, complete favors, and operate as a hitman.
Aldo Trapani eventually participates in various film events, which were slightly altered to fit the story. These include planting the gun in the bathroom that Michael Corleone uses to assassinate Sollozzo and McCluskey; helping Rocco Lampone intimidate Jack Woltz at his home in California; witnessing the assassination of Sonny Corleone; and assassinating Salvatore Tessio, Moe Greene, and the heads of the other Five Families during the climactic scene. During this time, Trapani also works personally for and alongside of Peter Clemenza, Al Neri, and Willie Cicci.
Aldo Trapani makes his way from an enforcer, to associate, to soldier, to caporegime, to underboss, and lastly, to Don. Trapani becomes the head of the Corleone family operations in New York City, while Michael Corleone remains the head of the family while operating in Nevada.
In the video game The Godfather II, based on the film The Godfather Part II, Trapani is killed during Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution (he is shot with a sniper rifle), while the Corleone family attempts to escape. In the sequel, the player character named Dominic is based in New York and eventually replaces Trapani as Don of New York.
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