If you think Hollywood's run out of ideas…

[Trojan]

Grand Theft Brando

If you think Hollywood's run out of ideas…

Maxim Online, Summer 2005

By Jason Buhrmester

While movie producers continue to raid the carcasses of old television shows for new Jamie Foxx projects, the minds behind the world’s video games are spending time in Blockbuster catching up on movies from the '70s—and stealing everything in sight. The next few months will see games derived from the greatest movies ever to warrant a Special Collector’s Edition DVD, including digitized versions of acting heavyweights such as Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, and Abe Vigoda. Yeah. We said it. Abe Vigoda.


Scarface: The World Is Yours

(PS2, PC, Xbox)

The Story This Time: Remember the dramatic ending to Scarface when Tony Montana introduces a SWAT team of assassins to his little friend before dying from a shotgun blast? Never happened. In this alternate ending, you take over, fight your way through the mansion and out to the streets of Miami in search of revenge and brightly colored Hawaiian shirts.

What You Do: Exiled to fictional islands near Miami, you’ll rebuild Montana’s drug empire by smuggling your goods in a boat past DEA agents and setting up storefronts to sell your wares to the kids until you’re ready to take down your nemesis, Alejandro Sosa.

Bonus Feature: Earn enough points to fill your Balls Meter and Montana goes apeshit with gunfire and sizzling Cuban machismo.

Jaws: Unleashed

(PS2, PC, Xbox)

The Story This Time: It's 30 years after the movie ends and Jaws, driven into a rage by underwater oil drilling, returns to Amity Island and embarks on an eating spree as ruthless as Britney Spears at a brownie bar.

What You Do: Roam miles of open ocean and devour dolphins, scuba divers, killer whales, and giant squid. Running short on food? Breach the water’s surface and bring down a boat, preferably one with Dramamine onboard. We get sea sick.

Bonus Feature: Human characters have 25 “points of disconnection,” giving Jaws a choice of appetizers: leg or arm. Our tip? Eat the legs and save the rest for later. That diver isn’t going anywhere.

Taxi Driver

(PS2, Xbox)

The Story This Time: Two months after the movie ends, Travis Bickle witnesses Mob thugs murder Betsy, the sexy campaign worker and object of his obsession. Bickle-brand justice will take plenty of sawed-off shotguns, funny haircuts, and overtime behind the wheel. Psych-ward, cabbie. And step on it!

What You Do: Track Betsy’s killers to warehouses, clubs, and other mob hangouts using an arsenal of .44s, M-16s, and other weapons to wash them away. In between missions you can cruise the cab through scummy ’70s New York and pick up fares…and a few STDs.

Bonus Feature: Bickle really believes he’s a vigilante. Gun down too many innocent bystanders and he blacks out. Guess all that talk about rain washing away the scum wasn’t just polite cabbie conversation.

The Godfather

(PS2, PC, Xbox)

The Story This Time: Consider yourself an extra in the original movie. As an Italian-American on the streets of New York in 1945, your criminal activities run alongside the plot of the original. Complete missions with Sonny Corleone and the gang and you’ll be welcomed as a foot soldier in the family where you’ll work to become Don.

What You Do: Choose whether to negotiate like Tom Hagen or intimidate like Sonny Corleone as you muscle rival families out of their gambling operations and other activities. Controls allow you to gun down thugs or dangle them off a roof. Get too violent and you’ll live life on the run from gangsters and the law. Get too soft and you’ll lose respect until other gangsters tease you and make you cry like a woman.

Bonus Feature: Before his death, movie (and real-life) giant Marlon Brando recorded dialog and granted his likeness for inclusion in the game for a reported sum of 700 pizza pies.

[BADDOG]

More games although they may be "old style" for us to play lol!!!!

Warm Regards

[-live-wire-]

hmm..I dunno..kinda cool..kinda funny.. still LOL at the BALLS METER..

[Trojan]

LMAO, that's hillarious. I think the Brando dialog is gonna be awesome.