10 Massively Underrated Video Games Based On Movies

4. Scarface: The World Is Yours

Movie Video Games
Radical Entertainment

Despite not being the likeliest of movie properties to be given the gaming treatment back in 2006, Scarface: The World Is Yours is a worthy entry to the sandbox genre. Elevating itself above being simply a GTA clone – a misjudgement, seeing as Vice City took more than a few of its visual and plot cues from the seminal gangster flick – the game exceeded all expectations, shifting a load of copies and hoovering up strong reviews.

In an odd but kind of cool bit of fan service, the game is set after the events of the movie, where Tony Montana has managed to give those pesky home invaders the slip and unleashed himself on the streets of downtown Miami. The aim is to take over neighbourhoods all the while creating the biggest, most bad ass empire that you can.

Developers Radical Entertainment have captured the greed is grim side to the movie, putting a real emphasis on money making and banking dirty cash, to the extent that players have to carry out drug deals themselves, something that not even Rockstar’s crime franchise has ventured into yet.

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Shaun is a former contributor for a number of Future Publishing titles and more recently worked as a staffer at Imagine Publishing. He can now be found banking in the daytime and writing a variety of articles for What Culture, namely around his favourite topics of film, retro gaming, music, TV and, when he's feeling clever, literature.