Sierra/Vivendi Games and Radical Entertainment took a big chance last year with the release of Scarface: The World Is Yours. Turning the classic Al Pacino film into a video game was just asking for trouble. Surprisingly, it actually ended up being a very playable -- and thoroughly enjoyable -- game, with Tony cutting the competition down to size and ruling a virtual 1980's Miami. Now the man who set out to "kill those cocka-roaches" shall conquer all new territory this summer, as Scarface: The World Is Yours heads to the Nintendo Wii.

The plotline closely follows the film, but some events have been twisted around. Tony Montana no longer dies at the end from a vicious shotgun blast. Instead, he survives and escapes his compound, only to lose everything within his drug-driven empire. Being the over-confident and swaggering drug lord that he is, he vows to get it all back and make everyone who stands in his way pay dearly. This includes collaborating against the Colombians who ambushed him. The game's events unfold throughout Miami, with Tony completing missions, forming alliances and, as expected, killing a number of enemies.

On the Wii, Scarface: The World Is Yours works differently than the previous versions. Players still move Tony around with the analog stick, but now use an on-screen targeting reticule for his direction and aiming. This proves useful when Tony finds himself outnumbered by members of a drug cartel or the local police. Gamers access auto-targeting by pressing and holding the Z button, automatically pinpointing the closest enemy. If he kills enough people, energy builds up into a Blood Rage meter. The Rage ability, activated by shaking the Nunchuk up and down rapidly, makes Tony invincible and offers unlimited firepower for a short amount of time. It goes into a first-person perspective and Tony, screaming at the top of his lungs, shoots anything and everything in sight, with the player controlling his every move.

Throughout the game, Tony has access to a number of weapons. These include smaller handguns, machine guns, a shotgun (referred to as his "little friend" in the film) and larger weapons such as a rocket launcher and bazooka. He can even pull a chainsaw out of the trunk, introducing one of the bloodier -- and more active -- segments in the game. Once cranked up, players sway their arms around to control the motions of the chainsaw, lopping off limbs and heads and watching blood come pouring out. This provides a nice, guilty pleasure-laden change of pace from all those family-friendly Wii releases.