Which leads us back to yet another pothole in this road paved with mostly bad intentions-the ridiculously foul language. Or, as it’s put in the game, “You f-ed up!” At that point you’d better run away or hope you can sweet-talk somebody because when the cops start shooting, you always lose. If you start smashing into cars, running over people in town or initiating wild firefights with rival gangs, the cops will swarm to the area and put a stop to your evil deeds. If you pull the trigger on a passerby, Montana refuses to fire and says, “I got no problem with you, man,” or something harsher like, “I don’t need that s- in my life.” For instance, here you can’t kill innocents. Still, to its credit, it also displayed a few positive traits that its brethren did not. Scarface was shaping up to be yet another Grand Theft Auto clone-with a motion picture excuse. I wasn’t in much of an enjoying mood, anymore. I stood for a quick stretch of my lower back. All of this leads to an improved reputation and opens up missions and new parts of the Big Orange to conquer.
Once that meter fills up, the angry drug dealer flies into a rage and the true carnage ensues. In the midst of this slaughter, players are also encouraged to taunt, intimidate and swear at enemies as a way to raise Montana’s “balls” meter (a measure of his courage and other people’s respect). Fountains of blood spurt everywhere and the bodies stack like cordwood. Using a variety of guns (and a flesh-hacking chain saw) you zing off arms, legs, heads and an assortment of other vital body parts. Rival gangs and bosses are the objects of Montana’s wrath and blood-soaked rages. Eventually you battle your way to controlling entire neighborhoods and warehouses, and get the big dollars rolling in.īut let’s not forget the killing side of the equation. The owners sell out only after you complete little mini-missions (like dropping off crates of contraband before the police show up).
Once you get a fistful of cash you can buy out businesses and front some bigger drug action. To do this, you start scratching your way back into the dope trade in Little Havana and eventually run, swim, boat and drive around the whole open world of Miami. So the game starts with the climactic scene where Montana yells, “Say hello to my leetle friend,” only this time he blasts his way to safety, leaving the rest of his domain in flames.Īs Montana, it’s your job to rebuild a decimated drug empire and kill everyone who has wronged you. Of course, it’s a bit difficult to stage a sequel-even in Hollywood and the land of video games-when the lead character is dead. At the end of this (excessively violent) cautionary tale, Montana becomes a victim of the foul world he tried to master and lays dead in a pool of his own blood.
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Scarface: The World Is Yours is a sequel, of sorts, to the 1983 movie Scarface-a Brian De Palma film that features Al Pacino as the rough-talking Tony Montana who takes over Miami’s cocaine trade and builds himself an illicit kingdom. I hate dumping the trash, but video games, I like. It was an ironic moment that made me smile. Sorry.” She then went to ask my son to take out the trash. Is that cool, or what?” Right about then, my wife stepped into the study, saw me setting up for a game and said, “Oh, you’re working. And like many times before, I sat down with my game controller in hand and thought, “It’s my job to play video games. It was time for me to play Scarface: The World Is Yours.