It should come as no surprise, because nowadays with high speed internet everywhere including at least a token multiplayer mode in your game is vital to sales and can help boost review scores. EA has just announced that in addition to the already announced multiplayer modes for The Godfather II they’re adding on a mode called Don Control.

While the existing multiplayer modes take you out of the strategic style of the game and are mainly deathmatch/objective based, Don Control is the multiplayer mode for the true strategy lover. You’ll take your well-honed organized crime skills online and pit them against other human opponents. As with the other multiplayer modes your successes and failures will reflect on your single player campaign. Up to sixteen players can join in the havoc and aspiring Dons can recruit other players to their family for a portion of the profits. Unfortunately if you lose, whatever money you’d invested is lost. The game has already gone gold so the mode won’t be on the disc, but EA is taking the honorable approach and releasing it as a free patch available as soon as the game itself launches (April 7th in North America, the 10th in Europe).