Scarface: The World Is Yours

Plot synopsis:
The game begins during the final scene of the film, with the mansion of Tony Montana (voiced by André Sogliuzzo) under attack from assassins sent by Alejandro Sosa (Robert Davi). Unlike in the film, however, Montana is able to evade Sosa's men and escape the grounds, just as the DEA and Miami-Dade police arrive. Sosa then receives a call from one of his men, who says Tony's mansion is on fire and being seized by law enforcement, his drug empire reduced to nothing, and he is confident Tony is dead. Meanwhile, hiding in a safehouse in the Miami glades, Tony laments the deaths of his friend Manny and sister Gina, chastises himself for not listening to the advice of others due to his bull-headedness, determines to quit cocaine, and vows revenge on Sosa.
Three months later, Tony returns to Miami. All of his assets have been frozen, and the districts of Miami he used to dominate have been divided among other drug cartels. His first act is to ask George Sheffield (James Woods) to become his lawyer again. Sheffield reluctantly agrees, but at higher wages than before. As Tony has no real power anymore, he has little choice. He next travels to see his old friend and contact Felix (Carlos Ferro), who tells him Sosa is working with Gaspar Gomez (Cheech Marin) in an effort to take over all of Tony's old turf. He also warns Tony there are very few dealers who can be trusted anymore, as most report back to Sosa. Tony says he needs to make some small deals so he can make enough money to buy his mansion back from the Vice Squad, and begin to rebuild his empire. Felix advises him to speak to a bartender named Coco (Willa Holland). She puts him in touch with some dealers, as he slowly begins to re-establish his name, earning enough to re-purchase his mansion. He calls Felix, who tells him that he thinks Gaspar is smuggling cash. Tony steals one of Gaspar's trucks, carrying $50,000, and uses it to open a bank account. Reconnecting with his old banker, Jerry (Michael York), Montana uses the bank to launder his money as he sets out to reclaim control of Little Havana from the Diaz Brothers. As Tony's reputation increases, the brothers attempt to have him killed. He survives the assassination attempt, and one of the killers tells him the Diazes have murdered his mother. Killing them both in retaliation, he regains control of Little Havana.
Tony then gets a call from Pablo (Wilmer Valderrama), an associate of Sheffield's. He tells Tony they have information regarding the location of Tony's estranged wife, Elvira, and he arranges to meet. However, the meet is a set up. Tony escapes and kills Pablo, realizing that Sheffield has turned against him. Meanwhile, he sets about taking control of Downtown from the Contreras cartel. Upon doing so, he is contacted by The Sandman (Steven Bauer), a cocaine producer from the Caribbean islands south of Miami. Sandman also wants Sosa out of the picture, and he invites Tony to come to see him. They agree that with Tony in Miami selling Sandman's product from the islands, they can run Sosa out of business. Tony then meets Venus (Cree Summer), Sandman's ex-girlfriend and a powerful influence on the islands herself. She tells him of the owner of a nearby casino, being run on a disused oil tanker, who is killing women and dumping their bodies overboard, and asks Tony if he can take care of it. The man turns out to be Nacho Contreras, formerly in control of Downtown's drug trade. Tony travels to the casino and kills Nacho.
He next sets about taking control of South Beach and North Beach, both of which are controlled by Gaspar Gomez. Upon doing so, he is contacted by The Sandman, who tells him he is going to war with the Colombian drug cartels. However, the Colombians get word of Sandman's plan and attack his plantation. Tony helps defend it, but Sandman tells him the Colombians have taken over his processing lab on the island of Tranquilandia, and are holding the workers hostage. Tony heads there, killing the Colombians and rescuing the hostages. Upon returning, The Sandman sells Tony his plantation, meaning Tony is now in charge of production and distribution, making him the most powerful drug lord in the vicinity and allowing him to finally go after Sosa, who is in Bolivia.
At his mansion, Sosa is hosting a meeting with Sheffield and Gomez in which they are discussing how best to get rid of Tony. From outside, they hear an explosion, as Tony attacks the house. Fighting his way through the grounds, he kills Sosa's security people, before shooting and killing Sheffield. Heading further into the estate, he kills Gomez. Eventually, he confronts Sosa, who tells Tony he warned him not to betray him, but Tony did, referring to the planned assassination of a journalist which Tony refused to carry out because there were children in the journalist's car. Sosa says that in their business, sometimes children have to be killed. Tony then kills him. As he leaves the mansion, Tony finds one of Sosa's men still alive. The survivor begs for his life, and Tony offers him a job.
The game ends with Sosa's surviving henchman working as Tony's butler, as Tony and Venus watch television in a Jacuzzi. Feeling good about his life, Tony declares he finally has what he always felt was coming to him: "the world."

Tags: revenge, neo noir, murder, violence

Review:
The licecned games tend to be pretty poor as the developers know it will sell purely on the fact it's based on a popular film/TV show.
Then adding to that the dreaded "GTA clone", cos let's be honest here NO ONE can pull off a GTA -esque game other than Rockstar North.
So it already has a lot to live up to.Quick, the backstory....You play as Tony Montana in events set after the end of the film.
But this game goes the "what if?" route by offereing what could have been if the film had ended differently.
Tony wants vengeance on those that wronged him, and he wants his empire back too....game on!While this will be compared to GTA (mianly Vice City)...I think that is unfair.
This does have the bare basics gameplay that GTA has...but at the same time it's also very different.
This game is much more realistic as it takes place in the same universe invented by the film.
Your basic GTA standard clone style gameplay is here, run around a free-roaming city, steal cars, etc.
I'll not bore you with the basic gameplay style, if you have played 1 GTA clone...you have played them all.
As you lose everything Tony "earnt" in the movie, you have to rebuild his empire from the ground up....including his mansion.
When you do finally get it back...it's a dump (due the the events at the end of the film and the start of the game), so you have to renovate it and get it back up to a high standard.
There are also things like street racing sub-missions and others (just like every other GTA clone).
You can even buy bussineses as "fronts" for what is really going on, but these are left open for attacks from rivals...so you can upgrade them with added security.Speaking of attacks, the aiming system is really good too.
Kill some bad guys and do a Tony -esque taunt, you get "balls".
Once the "balls" meter is full, you can unleash it in only a way Tony can do, a screaming, rage fueled blowout of a bender "Say hello to my little friend".
Makes the game much more interesting as well as the chases.But one of the things I LOVE about this game is Tony himself.
The developers not only make him look and sound like Tony from the movie (dispite no Al), but he also "acts" like him too.
Everything that made Tony Montana such a great movie character has been duplicated in game form....right down to little details like the tattoo on his hand.
Go to a bar and try to pick up some girls in the way only Tony Montana can pull off..."You want some Ice cream?".
Yes Tony is a bad man...but he still had standards, like not killing random people and only those that desereve to die.
So in the game, you can not go around on a murderous rampage killing inoccent bystanders...well not as Tony anyway.
Another little touch I like.Overall, this is a great game.
But for the chance to play as Tony Montana...this game is pure genius just for that alone.
It's by far one of the better GTA clones and also one of the better licenced games too.
Fans of the film and games will just adore it even more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
tony Montana don't die that easy cockoroaches.
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.
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..
How do you make a video game sequel to Scarface?.
Okay, if you can get over that they changed the ending to the movie, you'll probably enjoy this game.
It does have some things going for it but I don't know whether it's because of it's age (although to be fair some of my favourite games are 12 years old) but there is a lot of things in this game that make it just plain boring.Okay, after the events of the movie, Tony Montana returns in an attempt to regain his empire he had at the end of the movie.
The way he does this is through odd-jobs from other people, eliminating other gangs and stealing ammo and weapons that way or if there are any other ways I didn't play the game that far.Well, it might sound fun, dominating an entire city to your control but it's not.
The game-play is pretty much find money, go to the closest bank, work out interest with a mini-game and use that money to buy stuff like a chauffeur, cars and other luxuries that become unlockable over time...
Lets just say you're a henchman and you empty all your guns ammo on this gang hypothetically, then you switch to Tony - he will have no ammunition to his guns...
The chauffeur, do you think there will be one of Tony's cars anywhere near where you select him?
You think that because you drive Tony around that you have his cars there with you?
Of course not.But in terms of game-play, you might think - well how's the free-roam?
Driving around warrants if you drive stupidly like barely missing cars or driving on the wrong side of the road then you get rewarded with "balls" - It pretty much gets Tony a bezerker mode, however in my experience this only works when the game wants it to work.
Oh and as a side-note - don't bother stealing cars like you'd do in open-world games because unlike something like the Mafia games where you can use them again - here if you leave it or lose track of where it is - say "goodbye".Okay, so if you want a gangster video game with a free-roam mode, please - play Mafia: City Of Lost Heaven instead.
This game just feels like a cheap clone of the counterparts which are (even though I have NEVER played Grand Theft Auto) so much better and more fun to play.
I'd say if you're curious as to how a sequel of Scarface is feasible then I'd say this might be worth playing for the curious type.
Me personally, I want to stick with the good open-world games..
A Great game based on a great movie.
Tony Montana is back with a vengeance in Scarface: The world is yours for the box, ps2 and PC systems, and what a return it is.
Based on the now classic Brian DePalma film Scarface, which has served as a gangster bible and a source of inspiration to rappers and fans alike, the game continues the great story telling done in the film, but with a twist...Tony Montana not only survives the final shootout at the end of the movie, but manages to escape.
Sure, this challenges the canon established at the end of the first film, but viewed as a "What if?", it makes for a great game.Tony, now striped of his empire, morning the loss of Manny (who he killed in the first film) and his sister, must restart from scratch to rebuild his drug empire and reclaim "His world" as he puts it, and take revenge on Sosa, the drug kingpin who's death squad took him out in the movies.Durring the course of the game, you will run and gun, shoot, build up your "Balls" and work business to reclaim the drug trade of 1983 Miami.
This is done in a series of clever ways, not all involving blasting away at anything that moves, although its always fun to.This gives the game depth and dimension.
Although your skills with a various sorts of weapons comes into play a lot (and with a license like scarface, you would expect tons of gun play) but you also have to have a keen business sense, setting up fronts, earning respect, buying and selling ya yo, etc.
Once you have your money, you can use it to buy any number of things, to the needed (like weapons, cars, coke, etc) to the needless (like pimping out your house, various items for show, etc) That said, i was kind of disappointed in the lack of a personal soundtrack mode, like the grand theft auto games had on the box, although you do get a wide selection of music in the game.Having played about 5 hours or so into the game with plenty of game play still left, i can honestly say i enjoy it, and plan on keeping it in my collection, next to games such as the godfather, Saints row, Gun, and the grand theft auto trilogy.
Rated M for Strong Graphic Violence and Language and for Some Sex and Drug content.I would say Scarface is my favorite movie.The movie is amazing.Pacino plays a great role as a foul-mouthed cuban immigrant Tony Montana who tries to make it in the Miami drug world during the 1980's.The film was 3 hours long,it was entertaining,had great acting and a great storyline and I loved it!.When the game came out I was excited.However it got a 6.4 on gamespot so I would not want to spend $60.00 on it.I bought it for $20 just recently and I have been playing it.The game changes the ending of the film.(SPOILERS for the Scarface movie) in the end of the movie.Tony Montana died but in this one you get to play as Tony in the final shootout in the mansion and you have to blow away all of Sosa's henchmen including "the skull".The rest of the game is basically you rebuilding your criminal empire and trying to get revenge on Sosa.The game is almost like a Grand Theft Auto clone.You must do missions,buy assets,you can steal cars etc.But it is a bit different from GTA because you cannot kill pedestrians.This is one of the negative aspects of the game.I understand Tony is a man who does not like harming innocent people but it would have been more fun if you could kill pedestrians.There are gang members everywhere and you must kill them to take over their turf.There are drug dealers which you can sell drugs to or kill them.You can also kill the cops.The game takes place in the 1980's and there are only a few songs from the 80's.It has the entire OST of the Scarface film and some other 80's hits but their could have been much more.We didn't really need Reggae or country music.You don't have to be in your car when you listen to music.You can listen to it when you're walking or shooting people.The controls take some time getting used to but their alright once you get the hang of it.Another cool feature in this game is the blind rage mode.There is a "balls" meter on the bottom right hand corner of the screen.You can get "Balls" by taunting people you kill or by driving very close to another car.There are a few ways to get "balls".When your meter is full,you can go into a first person shooter mode, you have unlimited bullets and you cannot be damaged.Every enemy you kill in rage mode will give you +200 health.Scarface The World Is Yours is a good game that's worth playing..
Scarface: The world is yours is overall a really good game despite a lot of flaws threw the process of playing this game.Now...
the main problem of the game is the story, it's just nothing special, I had a feeling like the developers didn't put a lot of effort to make a good story, so they just rewrite the end of the script of the legendary movie Scarface (I'm a fan of the movie), so Tony Montana, a aggressive drug kingpin in Miami, now survives the massacre at his mansion.
Basically the whole game is about bringing your own empire back, so there is not much of a story here.
All you have to do threw the whole game is selling drugs, buying night clubs, bars, shops, restaurants etc.
And in this way the game is quite good and interesting, but most of the missions in the game are all the same and side missions become more repetitive and boring threw the game play.
Basically, the whole game is all about shooting a lot of gangs and making a lot of money.
This game is like GTA Vice City without interesting or even funny missions.The music in the game is great, the graphics are superb, the look of the city is really something special, the cars (this is GTA style game) are easy to control, but there is not a lot of different models so a lot of vehicles look exactly the same.
The voice acting is fantastic, the actor who is giving a voice for Tony Montana is really great and overall I would say this is a good game with some major flaws, but after a few hours you'll get used to them.With better story and more interesting missions this would be a classic, but it's still a great game..
The best movie game but not perfect..
Hello,I just finished SCARFACE 100% and it was really good.This games has its ups and downs.the ups are that AL PACINO chose a really good voice actor for Tony Montana.Also,the game makes it look like Tony did live by starting at the mansion shootout,which was good but tony did not blast the entrance like in the movie and the person who got killed was not chi-chi.The level was good overall.The character models were good for some but not good for others.Like George,he did not have a mustache and is skinny and SOSA does not look like the movie character a bit.I guess facial things could happen in 3 months.Also the game never explains how Tony knew Felix,how SOSA lost the heat,and so on.The good is the combat.It makes it more fun and the game allows you to take Miami by the balls.The downside is jacked up prices and repetitive side missions.It also follows the story as if Tony were alive.OVERALL 8.8/10.
The good points about the game are free roam because i like games like grand theft auto so this was great for me but some of the missions seem pointless like going out to protect a boat while it gets shark fins it is very stupid and also why would pirates want to attack you because you are getting shark fins anyway overall the scarface the world is yours game was stunning and one of the best games i have ever had in my life and also i have done all the missions now so i am going to try and net millions and millions TB//kelvin lately i have had this game on xbox 360 and i have not been able to come off of it.
This game is tremendous, also the way it continues the plot from the film, any scarface fan should love this game