The Most Controversial Video Games Are the Most Boring

Before Scarface: The World is Yours and Bully were released they were already hits. One is based on a gruesomely violent movie characters and the other had critics comparing it to a virtual Columbine, and if that weren't enough it also features gay make out scene. Parents went nuts and the media scooped up their anger while the games' developers did little to stop all of the commotion. Ultimately this pre-release protesting and posturing made these two video games were top sellers the moment they hit store shelves. Too bad they suck.

The end of the 1983 classic Scarface is unforgettable. Al Pacino's Tony Montana sticks his beak in a mountain of blow, grabs the biggest bazooka he can find and utters the famous line, "Say hhhello to my leetle friend!" Then he gets blown away in a bloody cool firefight. Scarface: The World is Yours takes place as if Tony made it out of his mansion and has to rebuild his empire. A great premise, it's executed in a way we've seen many, many times before. It's called Grand Theft Auto, and that series is old. The terrible part about Scarface is that it plays like the earlier editions of GTA and not like the more technically advanced recent installations.