GTA's really didn't have these problems that the above-mentioned games did - as often there were interesting main missions, main stories, and tons of side stuff in the GTA's. While I liked the games for Scarface: TWIY, Godfather 1, and Godfather 2 - eh, there's a lot of the Mafia 3 problems in those ones: do the same open-world Ubi-Soft cut & paste racketeering, destroying, killing, collect-a-thons, and/or whatnot side-missions everywhere. Everybody wanted a piece of that GTA-like pie, at that time. GTA-style games were hot at the time, so they (EA) made a 'Godfather' type of GTA-like. The mistake was going into the direction of an action game, rather then a strategy game. Dudalb: I don' t have a high opinion of the 'Godfather' game, but disagree that you cannot make a good game from the novel and the movie.
