Scarface: The World Is Yours

Scarface snuck into gamestores a full week before its scheduled ship date, which is usually a sign that a company wants to squeeze dollars out of their product before critics savage it. Sorry to burst your bubbles, Vivendi, but we like this game. A lot. Scarface plays "What if?" with the source material. In other words, "what if Tony lives at the end?" After Tony/you fights his way out of his mansion—you can target everything on the bad guys, including left/right testicles—all of his money and power are taken from him. He holes up in a cabin for a few days and talks to himself in the mirror, and then begins rebuilding his empire one drug deal at a time. You'll drive around in used cars at first, dealing yayo to scuzzy back-alley dealers. But before long you'll be hiring other people to move the yayo for you. You'll have sweet cars and boats chauffeured to you. And you'll have henchmen—and better still, sexy henchwomen—at your beck and call. Part RPG, part third-person action game, this game is all balls, meng.