
Have you ever felt like beating some (virtual) guy to death with your Wiimote? If so, you'll probably get your chance to do just that this summer, when Sierra / Vivendi will be releasing Scarface: The World is Yours for the Nintendo Wii console. Despite it being one of last year's most mediocre action games (quite a distinction!), Scarface sold over 1.5 million copies on the PC, PS2, Xbox and Xbox 360, so there's clearly more money to be extorted from the fans' pockets.
As with the previous versions, the Wii game will continue the classic movie's storyline by asking players "What if Tony Montana survived the mansion shootout?". Naturally, the publisher promises that the new version will have "an all-new control scheme that takes advantage of the Wii console's unique motion-sensitive Remote and Nunchuk controller design, as well as other alterations for the Wii audience", along with various graphics and gameplay optimizations (though not necessarily improvements). If you missed it last year, this is what the starting scenario will play like:
"Scarface: The World Is Yours plunges players deep into the seedy underbelly of 1980s Miami as the one-and-only Tony Montana, featuring the likeness of Al Pacino. Players are challenged to re-enact the climactic mansion shoot-out from the original film, but in the game, Tony fights his way out of the mansion and survives. Returning to Miami, Tony must rebuild his fallen empire and wreak vengeance on his enemies." GI.biz also has the following intersting details about the Wii control scheme:
"As well as using the pointer function of the Wiimote to shoot, the game will also allow players to control the chainsaw weapon by moving the Wiimote, and will replace the swearing function on the Xbox and PS2 pad with Wiimote gesticulations." Vivendi expects to release Scarface: The World Is Yours on the Wii in summer 2007.




