A great game, for it's class... It is after all still one of those "movie-games", however it kept me very satisfied.
On a first hand on approach I thought; "Oh no, not another GTA...". The interface looked and felt the same as Grand Theft Auto, especially the map system, but the physique in the cars, character models and also the enviroment you are playing in felt really good, not plastic like the GTA series, the enviroment actually felt filled with something.
A big plus was that you create your own character and have the possibility to makeyour own looks for your own personal gangster, you can choose clothes, facial attributes, hair styles, and tons of more options.
The graphics are good, not super, not sucky, just good. I found a lot of things like occasional low FPS whenever there was too much smoke, a few details I thought they should've taken time to improve, but amazingly, no real bugs!
The different shops and such don''t get a whole lot of variation, a butcher shop is a butcher shop, a barber has a barber shop with the same barber shop layout in the whole NYC. This however was never an issue, the AI spawned at the same locations though, which made it really simple in the end to figure out where they were.
The fighting in the game is really great, whether it be by hand (melee) or by guns. A big downer was that only the AI was able to do drive-by's for you, you never got to be the one actually hanging out the window with a Tommy Gun.
When it comes to playability, I'll probably keep playing this a lot longer than I did with GTA: San Andreas for instance, because when you completed the story part of GTA: San Andreas, there just wasn't much more fun to do in it. But The Godfather has you hooked with more stuff even though you complete the game's story line. I really recommend this game for people that share the same oppinions as I: "The games back in the good old days seemed to last a lot longer"
The sounds you kept hearing got a little repetetive as well, when the citizens were talking to eachother they said maybe 5 different things to eachother. It got a little bit annoying after playing for a while. The ambient sounds were really low quality as well. Gun sounds and cars etc were great though.
A great game deserves a great score, it is however a movie-game.