Scarface: The World Is Yours

but you never saw Scarface: the world is yours.

S:TWIY picks up where the movie left off IF the ending was different (i wouldn't reveal the end of scarface now, wouldn't i?) and tony escapes his mansion, only to have to rebuild his empire from the ground up. along the way, he deals drugs, kills his enemies, breaks up gangs through street shootings, buys fronts, launders dirty cash, does everything the emperor of a criminal empire would do.

First off, the Sounds. They're good. The soundtrack is a mixed bag of classics and songs you've probably never heard of, but they're there anyways. you have the whole scarface soundtrack (featuring songs that didn't make it into the movie) and you have modern metal wonders like Senor Peligro by Ministry. then you have a bunch of reggae that you'll probably never listen to, but it's there.

The graphics...a little bit under par for the PS2, but remember, graphics do not make a game. if graphics made a game, then superman 64 would be a lot better than Super Mario bros...which is not true, cause superman 64 is the worst video game of all time and SMB is near the best.

Finally, the gameplay...the most important element. it pretty much takes everything away from grand theft auto, and adds little things, like manual taunting and the "balls" feature where tony goes nuts after he's killed and taunted a bunch of bad guys. once tony activates his balls, he becomes invincible for a few short seconds and gains health for every kill he performs. the camera goes to a temporary 1st person view and the aiming is manual, but it's easy. all in all, the gameplay is a little better than par.

the only Con i can lay on the game, is that the farther you get into the game, the more frustrating it gets. for example, dealing 100 grams of coke to a coke dealer is easy, and it turns a hefty profit early in the game, but then when you unlock the big suppliers, you'll eventually have to sail between Miami and the islands. when you've made the deal, getting back to Miami takes a lot of patience. initially, you have to avoid pirates hoping to score a quick 10 Keys of coke, and if you manage to avoid them, then once you're within reach of Miami, the DEA will be on patrol. once they see you, it's game over. getting even further in the game, eventually you will have to get past the dealer's enforcer. if you can't, no deal. and if you screw up 3 deals in a row, the dealer and his posse will beat the crap out of you, and the dealer will take a pee on you. fun times.

Bottom line, if you're a scarface fan, buy it cause it will not disappoint. if you're a GTA fan, buy it. if you're more of a simple gamer, i don't recommend it because the game is vastly complicated. fun, but vastly complicated.

8/10

This game was like the best game i played back then, i am and will still always be a fan of the great FILM Scarface and that'll never change i like how this game is "What if Tony survived" just a REAL game with a REAL story if you ask me they need to remaster this GAME.

This game is based on Scarface the Movie, being an open world and a "what if" scenario it plays out very well. Playing as Tony hearing his classic lines and references from the Movie is just the beginning.

The story having to rebuild your empire makes it enjoyable, taking out gang rivalries, distribute narcotics for your business or just simply go on a rampage. One of the highlights the depiction of the Movie such as Tony's mansion, being shot up and having to rebuild or even customize it to your liking.

The controls however are little wonky and takes a minute to get used to. Fans of the film will get a real movie based game which is rare to say.

The Remastered Project from Sept 2022 makes this game playable by fixing major graphical glitches that occurred on modern-day PCs, and improves overall performance. The project also touches up the game textures and sound via remade, a.i upscaled or remastered. However, I encountered crashing to desktop problems when using this mod with the vanilla game. I suspect it is due to the buggy nature of the remade game textures. A random user who also experience the same issue left a helpful tip on page 3 of this Nexus Mod. Here is a quote of his reply posted below.

''I just tested the Drive-In mission that always crashed the game and fixed it by not installing the Mod's art/characters/npc folder textures. You can install all other folders except this subfolder, it seems that some npc textures are buggy and cause crashes. You should delete the npc subfolder and replace it with the one from cement.rcf in the Backup Rcf folder that the installation of this mod creates (by using Scarface Archive Explorer, a user shared the steps in the comments below). Be aware that I haven't tested it in other areas prone to crashes (Like the Island Bar's docks) but the Drive In mission always crashed with the mod completely installed, now was the first time I managed to complete it with this mod on by removing the mod's npc textures and replacing them with vanilla ones.''

Using this fix / workaround solves the crashing to desktop problem. Overall, this a great GTA Clone game.

this is a what if scenario that asks what it tony Montana survived the mansion shootout, and my god what an answer we got, I absolutely love the movie and when I saw gameplay of this, I thought WOW, this is better than the movie lol, in the world is your's, you kill every scumbag in your path while getting your mansion and empire back and get revenge on sosa. it would be really cool if they made an HD remastered version for the Xbox one, that would be worth every single penny, and my only flaw with this game is that al Pacino didn't come back to voice tony Montana but the person who did voice him did an amazing job, and the game did retain all the 1980's isms the movie had along with the snappy soundtrack so It's easy to forgive good old al not coming back. if you enjoyed the movie then you'll love this game, and it's even bloodier than the godfather game by the way, I am NOT kidding lol