The Sopranos: Road to Respect



The Sopranos: Road to Respect is a third person adventure fighting game released by THQ on the PlayStaion 2 in November 7, 2006.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) The graphics while good for the environments that look exactly like the show, the character models look low-poly looking and do not look good even for late 2006 standards.
 * 2) The game's story while based off of David Chase's original idea, is very poor. In which treats the crime life very poorly, as you have to hurt and kill innocent people for no apparent reason at all.
 * 3) Like many other licensed video games, only 2 cutscenes are animated in which are the beginning and game over cutscenes. The rest are done by the game engine, in which are terribly animated.
 * 4) Terrible respect system: If you use your gun in public where people can see you, it will result in you losing the level and getting "whacked" by the group.
 * 5) Despite the fact the game allows you to use your gun in levels, you can only use it when no one is around. Due to the respect system mentioned in WIS #3.
 * 6) While the voice acting is good and done by the original cast from the show, most of the dialogue written for the game is laughably bad.
 * 7) Terrible collision detection, as some attacks can go through people, and enemy gun bullets will not hit the player.
 * 8) Many of the unlockables in the game are pretty lame, as all you get is concept art and videos about the game development. That you would rather watch HBO's documentary about the development of the game called "HBO: The Making of 'The Sopranos: Road to Respect"

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) As mentioned, the graphics for the environments are good. As they look like exactly like the sets from the show.
 * 2) The voice acting is good, and it is done by the original cast of the show.

Reception
The game received "generally unfavorable" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic. The game received poor reviews from gaming websites like GameSpot and IGN, which complained of overly simplistic gameplay, a small and linear game world with little ability to explore, blocky and unappealing graphics, marginal game mechanics, and various clipping and collision detection bugs. The voice acting contributed by Sopranos cast members received praise.

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