| Date Posted: | Monday 14th May, 2007 | Author: | Alfreido | |
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Scarface: The World is Yours Review Written by Ben Thomson (Alfreido) I would bet a rather large sum of money that no one has picked up a toy gun before without uttering the phrase, "Say hello to my little friend!". Probably one of the most recognizable lines in the history of movies, the honour of being the one who brought this line to the masses was none other than Tony Montana (played by Al Pacino) in one of the best crime movies of our time, Scarface. The movie featured Tony Montana as a drug-lord who had it all... mansion, weapons and a mountain of cash which would make Scrooge McDuck jealous. And then, in one of the most memorable shoot-outs in history, he lost it all by being shot in his mansion by a large gang raid and falling into his fountain from the top of his stairs. You must be asking yourself, how can they make a game out of someone you know clearly dies? Well, in actual fact, the game actually follows a storyline of the "What if...?" type. What if Tony Montana actually survived the large gun battle and fought his way out of the mansion, losing it and all his possessions but living to fight another day? That's what Scarface: The World is Yours lets you answer. See, kids, you're rewriting 'history' here! The game takes wing of the winning gameplay which made the Grand Theft Auto series so popular, and opens up a whole city for you to run amok, sell drugs, make enemies and generally bring back the empire which you lost. You are assigned jobs by your friend, Felix, and from doing jobs, you not only earn cash but find out contacts and dealers, which allows you to buy drugs and re-sell at large prices and earn even more money. With the money, you can buy henchmen, vehicles and other tidbits which raise your reputation. You can even buy fronts for your drug ring which allows you to easily dish out drugs and rake in the profits. Not only do you have to make your drug ring bigger though, you have to also muscle out the gangs which have parked themselves all over your former territory. To do this, you must get yourself a large gun, and walk up to the gangs and blow them away. Sounds easy? Not really. They usually outnumber you 50 to 1, but you get a special trait: Blind Rage. You can taunt the dead bodies of your enemies to raise up your 'balls meter', which when full, allows you to go into Blind Rage. In Blind Rage, the viewpoint goes to a first person view, you are invincible, your aim is deadly and you earn health for everyone you kill. You can easily wipe out a whole gang in Blind Rage mode. The storyline of the game is very standard. You just earn money to build up your empire and return yourself to former glory. There is not much in the way of story in this game, instead opting to let you live the life of Tony Montana your way. Some missions do push the storyline forward, but they are few and far between. Most of the missions include taking out a group of people, making drops for people (usually drug-related), guarding particular people and taking out more people. Not a lot of variety in the missions but it is somewhat offset by the feeling of earning more money and putting it to good use. You do notice differences when you start taking over turf. At the start of the game, you can pretty much walk nowhere without being beaten down by some very nasty mob of gangster. After a couple of hours of play, you'll start to be approached more cautiously, and finally, you'll be able to traverse the whole town without breaking a sweat. Even the cops featured in the game will be nothing to you. The gameplay, however, just isn't varied enough. You earn money, you sell drugs and you buy exotics. Rinse and repeat. It is very similar to Grand Theft Auto but Grand Theft Auto at least had some variety in the missions. On the next page, we break the game down into the technical parts and find out how well it performs in each area... |
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Ej Gamestah General Manager 275 comments |
im playing this atm, like it alot, so close to the movie in feel. | |
| Posted at Monday 14th May, 2007 - 6:46:13 pm | ||
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Sacrifice Esports Commentator 15 comments |
missions are too 'samey', speak engrish? | |
| Posted at Monday 14th May, 2007 - 8:45:08 pm | ||
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Alfreido Gamestah Website Admin 83 comments |
It's a word.... now. | |
| Posted at Monday 14th May, 2007 - 8:55:00 pm | ||
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Kommandant 30 comments |
is this out for 360? I'd rather play it on 360 then PC as i've got large gohonas | |
| Posted at Tuesday 15th May, 2007 - 5:32:20 pm | ||
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Mr_Zain 3 comments |
I have one more gripe with this game. You can't just go and attract police attention by blasting random civilians in the face. When I got to the end of the drug haul I wanted to execute some mayhem all over the city and alas could not *tear* | |
| Posted at Thursday 25th June, 2009 - 5:36:56 pm | ||
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