Goodfellas' is a gangster style trade/management and poker game, which (title aside) has pretty much nothing to do with the actual movie. Essentially it has two modes, poker (5-card) and the management mode. Here you control a team of five thugs, with strategy arising when deciding who to send on which jobs (jobs vary in difficulty, and your guys gain experience as they go) and how much to ask for when strong-arming a banker or hawking all those guns that fell of all those lorries. At the end of each week, after all the nefarious dealings are done, you and your superiors sit down for a quiet cup of tea and play a few hands of poker. Here is where the game fails - my main issue is that it is five card poker, which is crap (Hold'em all the way – much more actual skill involved). Combined with the poor AI of your supposed bosses and the superfluous concept of being able to cheat, I found myself skipping this portion of the game far more than I should have (considering it is a large part of the game). Shit card games aside, controlling your empire (which expands with the scores as you progress) is done well and in such a way as to make this game a nice, healthy (tad addictive) distraction on any mode of transport. [Josh Wilson]
Iplay. Available now for mobiles.