10 Video Game Tie-Ins That Missed The Point Of The Movie

Oliver Stone was trying to kick a coke addiction when he penned the script for Scarface, a remake of the 1932 Howard Hawks film that substitutes the Italian immigrant experience for the Cuban. The first film, starring Paul Muni, is a Hays-code era condemnation of the gangster lifestyle. The remake, with an over-the-top Al Pacino, follows pretty much the same territory at twice the length. The ending is fairly notorious, with a deliriously coked-out Al Pacino shooting waves of assassins in his mansion, only to be shot in the back by one he doesn't notice. If you haven't seen it, you've surely seen a torn poster for it on the wall of a college dorm room.

But it was 2006, now, time for a reboot! With the gaming world gone GTA-mad, Scarface somehow seemed like an ideal candidate. The game begins as the film ends, only this time you turn around in time to kill your would-be assassin. You spend the rest of the game rebuilding your empire, laundering money and shooting enemies in the balls. Seriously, the game has a feature that tells you where the bullet hit.

So greed is... good?