While reporting on EA's "Godfather II" yesterday, I started thinking about other games based on great '70s / early '80s movies. There was Majesco's godawful "Jaws Unleashed," there's Warner Bros. forever-in-development "Dirty Harry" (but still not canceled, WB swears), and there was Vivendi's perfectly decent "Grand Theft Auto" knock-off "Scarface: The World is Yours" (remember fondly by many of us for its innovative "balls meter.")
And then I remembered a story from late last year that fell off my radar after the Activision Blizzard merger was announced: "Scarface 2." As I noted when I first reported on the "Ghostbusters" game last year, a sequel to 2006's "Scarface: the World is Yours," which sold over 2.5 million units worldwide, was in the works. A high level source at Vivendi Games confirmed that for me. I don't know whether Radical, which made the first game, was working on it, or how far into production the game got. Obviously not too far, since it was never announced by Sierra and thus couldn't have been scheduled for any earlier than 2009.
But "Scarface" was not on the very short list of Sierra franchises that Activision Blizzard picked up, which means Tony Montana is now without a videogame home. The rights have reverted back to Universal, which will undoubtedly be looking to find another publisher interested in open-world, drug empire building, hip-hop influenced, non-stop-swearing mayhem. Or perhaps, now that it has started producing videogames with "Wanted," the studio could make "Scarface 2" itself.
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