Scarface: The World is Yours Comments by Kristan Reed

Sounds alright, surprisingly enough.

sounds citin if nothing else.

People must be tired of these games by now.

I'm not and this one is a hell of a lot of fun.

Any GTA fans will be very happy with buying this and fans of the movie are going to be smiling the first time they enter the Babylon Club.

Wonder what the PSP version's like...then again, GTA:VCS is out soon.

K

"But as many good words as we have to say about Scarface, it is still only ever a fun, solid competent Grand Theft Also-ran and never a classic."

How can an also-ran possibly get a recommendation?! If it's not at least as good like the game it tries to be, what could possibly warrant the purchase? Better to replay GTA then...

/off to KH2

Erm.. I think the keyword here is "fun". And surely that's all that matters?

If a game is FUN then surely it's worth owning?

Better than other non fun yawnfests that's for sure...

"is" is a verb - it should be capitalized in the title




you stinking cockroaches!!

"a seven, then"

sounds like an edge review ^_^

I think you'll find he pronounces it "cock-a-roaches", actually...

"Grand Theft Also"... haven't heard that before. Like it. Like it.

And the 360 purchase gets put back a couple of months further :-)

Lovin' this cheap end-of-gen gaming

Fuck's sake - and people moan about endless bloody Mario ad infinitum.

How many GTA clones = boring? Does Cliff Richard have to do a version before people move on?

ED:
:-D @ goodshape. I missed that!

who doesnt want to be tony montana :P

>And the 360 purchase gets put back a couple of months further

Yeah.. and people moan about the wii's xbox ports :-)

Funny how no-one ever moans about the 360's ones :-)

Err, wouldn't a 7 indicate that this might actually be worth something? ¬_¬

The small touches are great, one of the first missions is called "Caspar Gomez" with the tag line "Fuck Caspar Gomez!". The random dialogue is ace too, my favourite being Tony saying:

"Why do hang around here like a chicken with no cock to go home to?"

As Kristan says, the devs must have had a lot of laughs adding all these small tweaks in. A must buy for fans of the movie!

maybe its because ive avoided all similar gta clones since the last gta such as godfather etc but im considering a purchase. 7/10. its not a classic but what classics are left to be released (especially on xbox) on current gen hardware and surely the scarface factor and the fact they havent pissed all over the film like the awful resevoir dogs game is worth summat.

buy, play, trade while its values still high, be happy

Or play another type of game to maybe I dunno open your eyes?

scarface the film was shit. im sorry but its one of the most overhyped bits of tripe ever. sure pacino is good thats a given but its a 6/10 film at best.

Is the Y-axis invertable though?

It is - I was just being a knobend.

well... you can never be too sure...

we can't seem to get the krudster off the comments pages these days, he's clearly not getting enough abuse from the readers either as he's resorted to insulting himself!

I'll start, go do some work fat tits.

Is the Y-axis invertable though?

One nice touch is at the start of the game it asks you to look up/down/left/right with the right stick and it sets it how you want it. No need to mess about in menus.

Repeat after me:

Not all games need multi player.
Not all games are suited to multi player.

Now if everyone can just remember that, then we won't get companies wasting time and effort creating skeletal online modes that last for 10 minutes and have nothing whatsoever to do with the game itself.

This one sounds interesting - I'll be holding out for a 360 version, which is still a win if it's a straight port with smoother graphics.

Does the Xbox version of this one work on 360, does anybody know?

@Psi

I suppose we are all entitled to our own opinion but Scarface is one of my favourite films.

Bet you don't like Mean Streets either.

I'll stop working on my video game version immediately!

@ Bloodflowers
The 360 version has been scrapped.

@Mentalist
The Xbox version does not yet work on the 360

no actually i loved mean streets :S

i hate that film blow too, which is worse as it's trying to be scarface.

if you want a ganster film millers crossing takes some fucking beating tbh. get a license for that going and rape it.

Miller's Crossing also a great film.

Might go and see the new Scorsese film, the Departed this weekend.

Let's hope it it's a return to form following that Gangs of New York debacle.

But why does Scorsese insist on putting DC in his movies, he still lokks like a teenage boy to me.

@pac: went to see The Departed last night, pretty good film. Pretty brutal at the end... I kept expecting gun battles to ensue in the darkend cinema parking lot when I came out of it /o\.

@Wobble

Great, sounds like the missus will love it :)

It also makes you weary of using lifts.

/not really a spoiler :p But you'll get what I mean.

I played a couple of hours with the PC version...
I'm really surprised how good this game is. I expected something similar to Reservoir dogs and what I got is a really nice variation of Vice City with enough original elements to make it fun even if you played Vice City to death like I did.
Imho, the combat mechanics are clearly superior to what Rockstar pulled off...blasting the bad guys to pieces Soldier-of-Fortune-style and taunting them afterwards is disturbingly entertaining. The story by McKenna who wrote the script for American History X is solid but the voice acting and sound effects are absolutely superb. Talking to the people on the streets results in extremely funny conversations. Finished conversations are rewarded with "balls-points"...this whole "balls-points" system is serious fun because it rewards you for being a mean but smart motherfucker. The only problem I see is that people probably don't expect it to be any good...but it really is. A straight 8 in my book.

If it's several notches above the GTA derivative it was expected to be, how come it's the exact same score as the GTA derivative it was expected to be (saint's row)?
Because that one has bump mapping and a feeble multiplayer?

i think the reviewer should have given these guys some credit. they created a good quality game. it overall a fantastic package and how can he under rate the effort that went into creating cut scenes and voice acting, soundtrack, game play and eye to detail that this game has and give it 7. the script is great also it deserved a higher score then 7. these guys have my complete respect. if only all developers were this talented and devoted we would play great games every day

Psi: +1, Scarface makes me want to break de Palma for taking potentially good things and making them suck. Carrie and Mission: Impossible as well.

The Departed = Infernal Affairs remade for people who can't read subtitles. Good film, but that's because it's reusing all Infernal Affairs many good points virtually verbatim, then adding Jack Nicholson. It's like what Vanilla Sky is to Abre los Ojos.

Might have a blast at this, once it's dead cheap. Not paying lots for something so unoriginal, though.

yourmessage here:
You forgot that 'the departed' also removed all the ambiguity from the original.