Say hello to our little friend: one of the best open world games around.
The developers have perfectly recreated the setting of the game, and the amount of detail in it is astonishing. Tony can hold long conversations with pedestrians, for example. If the player holds the L1 and R1 buttons while on the dance floor in a club, Tony will start dancing. The game also has some of the most iconic scenes from the movie: the memorable 'say hello to my little friend' scene and the chainsaw scene.
It looks and plays like a Grand Theft Auto clone, but in reality there's even more stuff to do in Scarface than in GTA. You can use the bank for laundering money, sell drugs, renovate your mansion once you've taken it back, etc. This game also has vehicular combat which is extremely enjoyable. There is a Balls meter that rises as Tony taunts enemies or holds conversations with pedestrians. Once it is full, you can activate Rage mode which changes the game to first person perspective, makes you invincible, auto-targets enemies to make them easier to kill, and gives you back some health for enemies you kill. You can call your henchmen to deliver vehicles to you, and police chases have a heat meter which rises if you can't get away and once it is full, it's game over (the game helpfully says that 'you are f***ed').
In interactions with police, drug dealers or people who launder money, a minigame activates in which there are two or three zones: black-and-yellow for failure, dark grey for partial success, and white for success. In the first zone Tony will fail completely - the drug dealers may refuse to buy from him, for example. In the second, he will only be partially successful - the bank will take a large cut out of his money for laundering it. In the third, he will be successful - for example he may talk the police into letting him go.
There are takedown-style moves you can use on enemies when up close, and these are as over-the-top as the movie was 29 years ago. You can use the right analog stick to aim for headshots (or, in this game, groin-shots even). The vehicular controls take some getting used to because Circle is for handbrake instead of R1, but once you do vehicular combat is extremely fun. You can play music at any time, so killing gangsters is a whole lot more fun while listening to Motorhead. You can also swim, but don't swim at night in lonely places or you'll - and here I am not making this up - get eaten by a shark. Yes, that's the amount of detail and depth in this game.
Overall, Scarface is one of the best open-world games around. While the movie is fine ending as it ends, the developers did a great job of making a quasi-sequel game for a movie that was not supposed to have a sequel. It has several unique ideas and if you can bear to hear the F-word every ten seconds there's a lot of fun to be had here.