Regretfully, this new addition does not do a lot to up the quality of the game, and depending on your proficiency with the Wiimote over the last few months it could take a while to get used to the myriad of buttons needed to perform certain tasks. The biggest, or should I say ‘only’ change to set The World Is Yours apart from it’s last gen predecessors is the new Wii controls. Nevertheless, the main story is very, very good and in the end that’s what counts so the inadequacies of the superfluous extras don’t really ruin the game in any way. Unfortunately, another aspect of the game sees you earning money by dabbling in coke and are a bit less fleshed out, needing only timed button presses to win, resulting in a bit of easy money whenever you need it. Also, many of the missions are highly memorable, at times even topping some of the better GTA set-pieces. Thankfully, a great number of the missions are fun to partake in, with many of them leaving you with a high feeling of accomplishment as you work your way through them. As a result, it is very hard to feel lost while playing as you concentrate on just playing though the main missions, which mostly revolve around the 16 ‘fronts’ you need to own in the game. Thankfully, the whole thing is put together with a bit more pizzazz than many other hackneyed attempts over the past few years.Ī big factor in its appeal is that unlike the last GTA console release, Scarface seems to have a much tighter focus on the main story, and tries not to overload the player with other morsels of extra gameplay spread out across the map. So, instead of having Tony die he survives the “ say hello to my little friend” shootout and loses all his money, respect, mansion and as a result has to start from the now clichéd position of rock bottom and then be tasked with the even more done-to-death challenge of working all the way back to the top. Of course, for the game to do this it has to rewrite the famous final scene of the film to allow Tony to keep breathing and thus have a chance to tell the new story. The big selling point of the games is that it allows you to step in the shoes of the icon that is Tony Montana, however instead of telling the tale spun in the 1983 film it paints the picture of what happened afterwards. So, if you have not been keeping up with the Scarface game in its other forms then a quick history lesson is needed. So, is the remake of the now year old Scarface, with a plethora of new controls added, the title to tied you through till that first possible AAA title of the autumn/winter season gets released? In all honesty it could very well be! But wait, don’t go rush out just yet as everything is not perfect. As such, most Wii owners may very well have to look a little bit further down the spectrum of mediocrity to find something worth picking up.

For the time being there are no real ‘must have’ titles available, and nothing that deserves unanimous praise is on the horizon either. The Wii is having a bit of a drought right now, there is no doubt about that.

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