If you're going to plow back through the history of cinema in search of a major property to resurrect as a mega budget action game license, you can't do much better than The Godfather. Oh, you can try, but that's when guys with no necks show up mysteriously to break your kneecaps and reinforce all those negative mob stereotypes that you thought were totally fake. They aren't, and you'll know it, boy howdy.

So, that's exactly what EA did, setting out to capture the Corleone epic as only a development and publisher powerhouse with more money than Jesus (he's loaded) can do. Tucked deep inside the recesses of EA's world domination headquarters in sunny Redwood City, California, the team at EA Redwood Shores has been plugging away, making sure that we get the sensation of gunning down those that cross us in the Old World Tradition.

That's not to say they haven't been [feature=19]keeping us up to date[/feature] on how things are coming along, just one look at the extensive play-by-play reports from the guys crafting features for the game shows they're taking things seriously. Well, they were taking them seriously, now they're probably all off getting drunk and keeping their fingers crossed that the game sells like hotcakes, because it's officially gold. This means as you read these words, a golden CD filled to the brim with the finished game is winging its way to the mass processing plant where it'll be stamped into millions of copies before heading out to stores.

Now, all we can do is sit... and wait... and maybe eat some food and sleep a little so we don't die before the game gets here on March 21st.