My favorite licensed game was The Godfather for PS2 and various consoles. It had fun and fluid third person shooter gameplay, great open world mechanics, an awesome intimidation system and an addictive takeover/domination metagame. It was also one of the few games to integrate motion controls (both Wii remote and PS3 Sixaxis) into traditional gameplay in an astonshingly successful way.

They respected the source material by creating an original story that runs parallel and sometimes intersects with the film, inserting your character into certain scenes without disrupting them. Having James Caan and Robert Duvalle reprising their roles with both voice and mocap helped a lot as well.

Tying everything together was just a spot on rendition of Coppola's New York City, from the buildings and the cars down to the clothes and hair styles. They nailed every aspect a video game possibly could and the use of the musical score made it an almost surreal experience to play.