Cheat mode
Press [Esc] to pause the game. Then, type in one of the codes below to activate the desired cheat. Note: There is a five minute lockout before a code can be used again.

No heat when stealing cars
Achieve the "Underboss" rank to have no heat when a parked car is stolen.

Skip introduction sequences
Note: This cheat involves removing game files so makee a backup copy of the files before going on. Then enter the "\electronic arts\the godfather the game\movies" folder. Now delete the "load.vp6" and "paramount.vp6" files. You will now only be prompted with the copyright clip before you go into the main menu.

Unlimited ammunition and $1 million
Get to the "Don Of New York City" rank at a 91.5% game completion. Note: You will obtain unlimited ammunition for all of your guns only. Bombs, dynamite, and Molotov Cocktails are not infinite, and melee weapons still wear out.

Hints & Tips

"Death To The Traitor" mission: Hidden money
After you place the bomb in the upstairs of the bar, a enemy will open up the previously locked door at the top of the stairs. Swiftly run into the hallway he reveals to collect a lot of money bags. Do this fast by sprinting, as you will not have to much time to run downstairs and leave before the bomb goes off. Do not try to open the second door in the hallway, because it is locked.

"The Don Is Dead" mission
Simply break the windows in the barber shop before you start the mission. This will allow for easy shooting once the Don is shot. A good gun for this and any other close range shooting mission is the magnum.

Extorting businesses
When you are having trouble extorting business owners, try to destroy a few of their property and/or hold a gun to their face. For example, when you are trying to take over Good Eats in Brooklyn. you can hold the gun to the man's face then reholster the gun and press V to extort them. He will refuse. Then draw your gun again, lock on, and hold it. Keep on doing this until he gives in. Do not forget to reholster your gun to avoid shooting him. In another example, when you are trying to extort money from the hotel owner in Brooklyn, hold a gun to him two times, break the downstairs cupboard, then blow his safe before you beat him into submission. Always buy available rackets first. Also take a trip around to either buy another racket or go around the block. Do not attack until you visit again, and instead of enemy soldiers you will find your soldiers. In doing this you do not have to fight a bunch of enemies and get your vendetta up.

If you have not taken over all the businesses and rackets, wait until you have reached the "Don of New York" rank. You will be able to take over anything without having to smash anything up or "convince" the person that it is a good idea. They will say "Yes" immediately.

Tattaglias compound
When you feel you are ready for the challenge, take on a compound. The Tattaglias in northeast Brooklyn might be the weakest family in New York, but that does not mean they are going to let you walk in. So bring a few bombs along and blow up the support pillars in the basements. You may start a mob war, but if you are victorious you will have a new safe house and a group of guards.

"The Alley" mission: Free pistol
After you beat up the men and are told to find your safehouse, follow the Don's enforcer out of the alley and turn left. Now walk down a short ways to the next alley on your left. There will be a thug there, staring at you. He will not attack, but if you beat him up he will drop a pistol, which is good for your first gun. You can now select this as a weapon and shoot people to get through the next few missions with easilt.

"The Alley" mission: Easy money
After you finish the mission getting the your first gun down the alley to your left, return to the alley you beat the thugs up at. Now shoot the crate. It will have $1,000 inside.

Robbing banks
The type of bank will establish the easiest way it can be robbed. The type with the three guards and one room is the easiest, and should be robbed as often as you can. Use this trick to rob it without being chased or getting past two shields. First, bribe the cop outside. Then, go into the bank and choke the first guard by the door. Next, go into the vault area and start to strangle the guard on the left. The other guard will come and attack you, but he will not shoot. He will hit you with his billy club. Remember to strangle the man on the left first because he tends to start shooting if you attack the other guard. If you are robbing the big bank, start the same way by bribing the cop outside. Then, go in and strangle the guards in the main room. Then hurry down to the vault and strangle the two guards there. Open the door and blow the vault. Now ready your Tommy gun for action. Three or four guards will attack you as you flee the vault. Get close to them as you are shooting them and you will do an instant execution. After you shoot them, run up the stairs and move to the right. Then, take a right to leave the building where the car is parked. Get in the car fast because you will be shot at when your outside. Take off and you should not be chased after you hit the streets. After any bank robbery you need to go to your hangout to get the money. The best bank to rob is the midtown bank, close to the apartment that the Corleone's give you after you have saved Michael. You wll receive $50,000 there.

Taking over compounds
To take over a compound, equip your self with ammunition for all your guns, or you can use one powerful gun to kill other gangsters and take their gun. You must have cover at any time you can. Note: When your behind the bushes to the left of the entrance they can shoot you through the bushes. Once your inside, do the same thing and always have cover. Then, run downstairs. In the back house there are two men. One is behind a box and there is another behind a pillar. After those two are killed, set the time bomb. If needed, remain in the basement and die, then drive back and redo on the other house.

When the time to destroy the rival family compounds, the easiest way is to blow up one building at a time. Make sure you have all you weapons full with ammnition.

Assaulting warehouses
Before you go on a warehouse assault have these items: pistol, Tommy gun, shotgun, Magnum, Molotovs (6), and $25,000. When going to a warehouse, attempt to blow up the roadblocks. After that, stand there and shoot at the oncoming gangsters with your pistol. Then, go in to the warehouse area. Now stand behind boxes and shoot your enigmas with the pistol or Magnum. When you actually enter the warehouse, have either your shotgun or Tommy gun ready. Most enmeshes will have shotguns and Tommy guns. When you kill them, search for the owner. He will have puppeteer hands. Buy him out. Do not hit or injure him or you will not be able to buy him out and will have to use pressure. On the way you will have almost certainly started a mob war. Do not bother looking for bombing business. Instead, check the map for the nearest FBI agent and bribe him. You may lose $3,000, but it is less risky. You will now have a warehouse and won a mob war at the same time.

In order to take a warehouse, drive a car into the blockades and keep on running over people. If it catches on fire, turn your door side aways from the enemies, then get out and locate a new car.

Barricades
Use this trick when you reach a hub, warehouse, or compound with people and cars in your way. Grab a truck and run into the cars and people until it catches on fire. Then, kill the other people that are still alive.

When your destroying barricades, stand close enough that you can lock on to a person. Now take either dynamite or a Molotov cocktail and throw it. Now it will blow up the cars beside the people. Keep doing this until you have reached the warehouse, compound or Hub.

Car chases
When you are being chased by enemies in a car, let them drive up on your side. Normally they will come up close to your rear on your left or right. Then, look ahead and lure them into an accident. Normally they will smash into oncoming traffic or a wall if you time it right. They will in time come back and catch up to you, but if you keep doing this you can get them to blow themselves up.

Losing police quickly
If you commit plenty of damage and kill several people, you will get wanted stars. If you get enough stars, the police will pursue and shoot you. To lose them, move to a different area. All of your stars will go away.

Easy special kills
On the missions where you have to kill an important figure in a certain way, you can do this easier by simply luring your opponent over the hazard you need to use to kill them before you fight with them. Avoid them and run over to the hazard. They will come over to you. Beat them up some but do not kill them. Then, grab them and swing them so they have their back to the hazard. Now shove them to their death.

Shooting enemies behind cover
When you are locked onto an enemy who is hiding behind a crate or low object, keep locking on but move the crosshair to a part of their body that is at times sticking out, like their head or arm. This will help you kill them faster.

Avoid getting shot
When you are getting shot by another family or cop, grab someone close to you and use them as a shield. In doing this, you will not get hurt while your being shot.

Safes
You need to blow all safes to become the Don Of New York. Blow every safe when you are taking over businesses that have one. By doing this you will not have to search for safes after you finished most of the missions. Also, you will receive an amount of money, 1,000 respect and dynamite by blowing them up.

Easy money
Visit the sewer system. The entrance is south of the westernmost Tattaglia warehouse on the Hell's Kitchen Loop. Be ready for a battle. The crate that has the money you are after is guarded by a group of heavily armed bell-boys.

In order to get free money and respect, go to the Molotov cocktail seller in Midtown. There will be a few hobos walking around. If you see any , shoot them. You will receive no heat, but get either +750 respect and $3000 or +900 respect and $100.

Different families have different incomes. The richest family is the Barzini family followed by the Cuneo family. The businesses that you take from these families pay out more than the other two. Also, when you are taking over their business, do not forget to pick up the money they will drop. When a Barzini family member is killed, you can pick up $200 per person. But when you take money from a Tattaglia family member, you will get $15.

In order to get more money, take over as many businesses, warehouses, and rackets as you can before finishing missions. By doing this you will get more on payday, and money for important weapon upgrades.

Use this trick if you do not like seeing your hard earned money going into a racket that will not pay off. Get the pressure up on the person you would normally buy out. Now he will pay you.

On  the missions where you raid an enemy gang's operation, search the interior after you finish the main objective for hidden stashes of ammo and cash. Most back rooms, closets, and rooftops have hidden moneybags or weapon stashes.

To get $2,000 or more, get yourself on the freeway. After every 10 seconds of driving a warehouse truck will show up. Stop your car in front of it, hop out, cause some damage, kill the bagmen, grab the loot, and keep on driving. You can accumulate plenty of money fast. Then, return to your safe house and deposit it.

Easier driving
While your driving down the street, honk your horn. This will send the other cars to the side of the road.

Get to a police station and bribe the police chief. You can now steal the police car without trouble. Now turn on the siren. The cars will now move out of your way.

Losing heat
When you have heat, go to another neighborhood. The heat level will return to zero. However if you have cops tailing you they will continue to do tail you.

Ammunition
Every safe house that you pay for have ammo caches. When your low on ammunition or health, you can go into these houses and reload. They are the orange houses on the map, and are in hotels usually.

Marlon Brando's last appearance
Simply play the mission when you go to the hospital to protect the Don. After you have killed the first assassin and Michael Corleone tells you to go to the basement, go foward and turn left. You should see a door with Michael Corleone talking to Vito Corleone while he is in the hospital bed. Listen to the conversation. This is the real Marlo Brando talking, recorded while he was in the hospital.

Suggested weapons
Do not waste your money on safe houses. You can make it ok with just the ones you obtain in the story. Instead, save your money for clothing and weapons. All the better weapons cost more but are well worth it. The Saturday Night Special is a better revolver and it will cost $75,000. The Assassin's Pistol is better gun and costs $200,000. The Python a better magnum will cost $250,000. The Dillinger is a machine gun that will cost $450,000. Lastly, the Street Sweeper, which works like a shotgun, sells for $500,000 and will kill most people in just one shot.

The pistol at level 3 will work like a semi-automatic gun. It carries fourteen bullets and has more firepower. This is good for taking over businesses. The shotgun at level 3 has even more ammunition, more firepower, and is good for taking over warehouses, and more. Prioritize your weapons upgrades before you buy a safehouse. One house in each city will do in the start. But you will have to buy them all in time.

Upgrade priority

Health: The more health, the better.

Streetsmarts: Prolong the victims breaking point (and by doing so, increasing your weekly income earnings). Remember to always try to buy them out first.

Fighting: increase you negotiation pressure by 10% for each upgrade.

Speed: Not so essential. Only faster reloading is interesting here.

Shooting: For better aiming speed and precision but not essential for taking over businesses.

Gun names
Every gun in the game are based on real-life firearms. Below is their real-life equivalents:

.38 Snub-Nose: Colt Detective .38 Special/Smith & Wesson M & P 2in revolver
Pistol: Colt M1911A1 semi-auto .45 pistol
Magnum: Smith & Wesson Model 10 revolver in .357
Long-barrel Shotgun: Remington 870 pump-action shotgun
Tommy Gun: Thompson M1921/1928 sub-machine gun in .45

Movies
Finish the listed mission or number of film reels to access the matching movie.

Regarding Sollozzo: "The Alley" mission
Mr. Bonasera: "The Enforcer" mission
Meeting With Sollozzo: "A Grave Situation" mission
Sicilian Sign: "Sleeping With The Fishes" mission
Five Shots: "The Don Is Dead" mission
Sonny And Tom Disagree: "Intensive Care" mission
Sonny And Tom Argue Again: "Fireworks" mission
Mr. Woltz: "Death To The Traitor " mission
Trigger Too Tight: "Horseplay" mission
Mattresses Montage: "A Recipe For Revenge" mission
Where's Michael?: "Now it's Personal" mission
Spoiled Guinea Brat: "The Silent Witness" mission
Carlo Learns A Lesson: "Sonny's War" mission
Are You Ready To Do Me This Favor?: "Change Of Plans" mission
The Don's Demise: "Order To Kill" mission
Carlo Goes For A Ride: "It's Only Business" mission
The Baptism: "Baptism By Fire" mission
Johnny Fontane: Collect 10 film reels
Don Sends Luca On An Errand: Collect 20 film reels
Luca's Demise: Collect 30 film reels
The Don Is Dead: Collect 40 film reels
Whack Paulie: Collect 55 film reels
Good Morning Mr. Woltz: Collect 70 film reels
Sonny At The Tollbooth: Collect 85 film reels
Sorry Sally: Collect 100 film reels