Ended up playing it- it is more like SimCity or Tropico with a gangster-skin than a real organized crime game. You just build building and play with a group of set characters. Pretty boring.

It could have been great with a better combat system (hits), a diplomacy system of dealing with other families, rebel capos or other ethnic gangs, the ability to recruit and create a borga's hierarchy (being careful who gets made, who might be a rat, how to conceal your hierarchy, who makes good decisions and who is a dangerous psycho that could bring heat, etc) and have a dynamic system of law enforcement heat (and reaction to it- like dealing with rats, using political connections, dealing with trials of underlings, dealing with the media). The current game has no real decisions, dynamic events or alternative methods of achieving victory. Maybe too much to ask- but it would be so great to have a real strategy game dealing with organized crime, especially in the 60-90s. Maybe be able to achieve victory or defeat in a ton of different styles- either as a lunatic like Casso/Scarfo/DeMeo or try to be a peaceful don like Bruno or extremely secretive like the Chin or really old school, blue collar like Neil Dellacroce.

Crusader Kings II is a good model. Does a great sim of medieval politics (which are actually pretty similar to the violent dynamic of organized crime).