PlayStation 2 video game, The Italian Job, is about mastermind thief, Charlie Croker, who pulls off an amazing gold bullion heist from a heavily guarded palazzo in Venice, Italy. With a strange turn of events, he is double-crossed by one of his crew members, Steve. Seeking revenge, Charlie recruits Stella, a beautiful nerves-of-steel safe cracker. Together with his former gang, Charlie and Stella follow the backstabber to California where they plan to re-steal the gold by manipulating traffic signals and creating havoc on the streets of Los Angeles.