Scarface: The World Is Yours

Scarface: The World Is Yours is a 2006 open world action-adventure video game developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Vivendi Universal Games (under the Sierra Entertainment brand name).

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The game manages to stay faithful to the source material but retcons Tony's death in the movie so he can instead take revenge on Sosa.
 * 2) * Many of the surviving cast of the film makes a return including the ones with relatively small screentime like the Diaz Brothers.
 * 3) * Locations like the Babylon Club or the Sun Ray Hotel can be found on the map. Many of them can be entered and Tony can buy them during the game.
 * 4) * The game includes the OST of the movie.
 * 5) * Tony's mansion can be fully customized by the exotics you can buy.
 * 6) * During the first mission, staying on the top of the stairs and not shooting Skull can trigger a scene showing the original ending of the movie.
 * 7) Great library of music which includes various genres and also the songs from the movie
 * 8) André Sogliuzzo, the voice actor of Tony, successfully imitates Al Pacino from the movie.
 * 9) Great car selection.
 * 10) The drug smuggling missions can be fun and rewarding.
 * 11) The game keeps the tone of the movie.
 * 12) The game is way more violent than other open world games of the era, though you're unable to kill civilians on foot while playing as Tony due to his commitment to not killing innocents.
 * 13) Tony's driver, enforcer and assassin is also a playable character.
 * 14) The city feels alive. Tony can speak with almost every NPC in the game. Tony reacts differently to all the NPCs (seducing a grandma, telling shop owners to sell coke, telling immigrants about his wealth). These discussions can be hilarious like when the pizzeria owner thinks he actually has to sell real yo-yos after getting confused with the slang term for coke "yeyo".
 * 15) Outside the city, there's an island to explore.
 * 16) Awesome gunplay.
 * 17) The notoriety system actually affects your progress (with less notoriety you can buy drugs cheaper).
 * 18) Tony's mansion has some customization options, with a variety of furniture and objects that can be bought from the exotics menu and placed almost anywhere inside the house, in addition to a few renovation choices.
 * 19) The Xbox and PS2 versions have progressive scan modes to enable higher resolutions with component cables, with the Xbox version capable of 720p and the PS2 version capable of 480p.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The graphics themselves are below average for a 2006 game. While the character models are well detailed, other models like the cars look like models in an early PS2 game.
 * 2) Miami is rather bland and lacks the 80's aesthetics compared to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
 * 3) The map is severely lacking in city blocks and areas to explore for an open-world game, and there's usually only one road to take to get where you're going instead of multiple routes.
 * 4) Overly-cartoonish vehicle handling that feels too similar to The Simpsons: Hit & Run.
 * 5) Tony can't jump, and although he can swim, swimming for too long will trigger a shark attack and instantly kill him.
 * 6) Some of the songs in the game's OST were not made in the 80's.
 * 7) The PC version was only optimized for Windows 2000 and XP. It has a heap of issues on modern computers due to using outdated software including always crashing upon starting on any PC running Windows 7 or higher, graphics getting corrupted, audio getting corrupted, and the game only using one core making it laggy on high end systems. Luckily, patches and enabling the other cores can solve these problems.
 * 8) The Xbox and PC versions both have less detailed textures and are missing blood effects on clothes from the PS2 version.
 * 9) The PS2 version has bad screen tearing during cutscenes and occasionally during gameplay. It also has dithering which is worsened in progressive mode.
 * 10) The drug smuggling missions are important to progress but doing that so many times gets rather annoying.
 * 11) * The pirates/coastguards can destroy your boat in seconds.
 * 12) * You cannot repair your car while distributing, if your car gets destroyed you lose all the money you get.
 * 13) * On PC, the frame rate can decrease heavily while defending your estates due to the amount of attackers on the scene.
 * 14) You'll lose all your money if you get killed before laundering it in the bank.
 * 15) Not losing the police in time causes the game to show the text "You are fucked". There's no chance of avoiding death after this point due to the infinite spawning of SWAT teams.