#Best video games 2017 open world series

Playing this game had us screaming “say hello to my little friend” over and over again which, we’re sure, wasn’t tiresome for anyone within earshot. Scarface: The World is Yours parlays the timelessness of Pacino’s title character, complete with tacky mansion and gaudy suits. PlaystationĬomical piles of cocaine abound (just like in the movie!) when Scarface enters the room. The sweeping Bolivian landscape is littered with every aspect of the cartel’s narcotic operation and the freedom that open-world affords you in your planning and executing of plans to take down those cartels is unparalleled on this list. Quickly rising to the top of the narco-game game, Wildlands is the first Ghost Recon we’ve seen that entrenches you so heavily in the drug-trade. Mario (we’d like to see where he got that medical degree) genuinely looks like he’s tripping balls throughout this classic Nintendo game, and we can only assume the creators of this game had gotten high on their own supply when they commit to this game. Would you really want a guy who’s been eating shrooms for years to prescribe you pills? Dr. Big (yup, seriously) made Narc a standout for its time. The fact that the two heroes were named Max Force and Hit Man and were out to dethrone Mr. The fact that you were intended to confiscate money from the drug-addicts you were tasked to arrest and/or kill only fueled that fire. Two-man, arcade-style drugee killing was the hallmark of 1988’s Narc, followed shortly by public outcry against the game. Army-issued morphine plays a suspect role, brings us back to the glory days of narcotics, where an unsuspecting FDA was still in the process of realizing that opium-products needed at least a bit of regulation. LA Noire dealt with all the crime in LA in the ’40s, so obviously you’re going to get mixed up with heroin.

#Best video games 2017 open world series

We’ll never know why Activision pulled the plug on this series after two successful outings in LA and NYC. True Crime’s “high” points were its voice actors which included the likes of Mickey Rourke and Laurence Fishburne. When you’re the son of a criminal kingpin making a go of it as an undercover detective in the PDNY (their similarities to the NYPD are astounding) then it’s not a matter of if you’ll encounter the underground drug trade of a major metropolis, it’s a matter of when. The fact that the ultimate goal of the game was to take down a drug kingpin named Pit Bull (no relation) makes it all the better. It wasn’t the most original plot, but it was unique for its time and an interesting take back in the NES days. Originally called “Drug Czar,” the entire point of Raid 2020 was to defeat drug dealers, straight up. Max is one of the few characters who straddles the line between narcotic user and crusader… which probably explains all that slo-mo bullet time in his games. When you’ve been entrenched in the underworld, spent years of your life chasing down a designer drug syndicate and seen as much violence and tragedy as Max Payne, there’s no real surprise that our hero started popping pills. No matter how it shakes down, Tripto fucks with Norman like one of those before/after meth pictures. In many ways, Heavy Rain’s drug of choice actually sounds more like methadone, a drug to get you off harder drugs. Unlike most other games on this list, it’s Heavy Rain’s hero, Norman, who is indulging in the fictional Tripto’s habit. Or so we’re led to believe in Heavy Rain. It’s as simple game that was as addictive as the drugs we were selling in it.

Highest profit after paying back the loans wins. That means borrowing capital from loan sharks to buy up and sling as many drugs as you can in a 30-day span. You may have played Dope Wars on your computer, your phone, or even your TI-83 calculator when you were pretending to learn trigonometry in middle school because it’s a text-based game that challenges you to channel your inner drug kingpin.