The controls make violence more enjoyable than it should be.
I had great fun with this game, my friends all watching me play it, doing the New York Italian stereotype (I'm Italian so it comes naturally), grabbing a lounge singer and shouting, "You're F*CKING TERRIBLE! Stop singing!" and flinging her against the wall by pantomiming flinging her against the wall.
It's immensely satisfying to fling a civilian into a burning barrel on the street or an oncoming car.
I don't know how anyone could not enjoy the hell out of this game: the voice acting is great (and funny), the game is long with PLENTY to do and the controls are better than those in most Nintendo games and are not shoehorned waggle like most 3rd party games. I can see Godfather fans disliking it due to the fact that it's kinda a blaspheme against the original franchise (near the end), but other than that, it's excellent.
I can't wait to see how Manhunt 2 will play after playing Godfather...
"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks
