As far as I can tell there are three free-roaming city games on the Wii. Godfather, Scarface and Driver Parallel Lines. Any suggestions as to which is the best out of the three, or if there are any other games in the style on Wii that are better?

Eh....

If it's not GTA/Saints Row/CrackDown it's not free roaming..

Play GodFather for an "original"
Play ScarFace for Vice City "Rip"
Play the last one in desperate need

Everyone has no acceptance for more than one game being in the free roaming genre.

GTA was somewhat the first of it's kind, but when games like Godfather and Scarface were released, they were automatically labeled as being GTA rip-offs.

GTA isn't perfect by a long shot, that's why there are going to be other games available for that genre besides GTA, because not everyone prefers it.

The thing is, they both are rips...

Play GTA for a hour, then either of those games, and it's the same sh!t with a more sh!ty feeling, thus , rip.

Doesn't No More Heroes have some free-roaming aspects?

yes it does, but because of, afaik, the structured nature of the destinations for missions/assassinations, the 'free-roaming' is more akin to Head-Hunter (dreamcast) than GTA3 or any of its subsequent influences.

ps. doesn't seem like there is a specific 'best' free-roamer for the Wii then.

I haen't played any of those on the wii itself, But I played godfather and scarface on the xbox. I enjoyed Godfather alot.