And they say Hollywood is out of ideas..Vivendi Universal Games sends along this press release announcing the development of a game based on the Al Pacino movie Scarface. The third person action game, in development at Radical Games for unmentioned platforms, is scheduled for a fall 2005 release.

Highly acclaimed screenwriter, David McKenna, has written an original event-driven storyline for the interactive game that will lead the player through a sordid underworld. The Scarface video game will create a gameplay environment that authentically recreates the historical time period of the film, touching on politics, news items and events of the day. Players will travel through the steamy, often violent streets of Miami, the irie islands of the Florida Keys, the Bahamas and various other locales and will interact with a world full of seedy and dangerous characters to procure information, negotiate business deals, smuggle contraband and avoid rivals and DEA on a mission to rebuild their fallen empire.