I thoroughly enjoyed
Scarface: The World is Yours. It turned out a LOT better than I ever thought it would.
I especially like the fact that you can call for a car, and access your weapons from the trunk. Also, once you buy the Gun Dealer in the Exotics menu...you never have to worry about being unarmed again (if you've got the funds.)
The one thing that REALLY got old, though, was making drug deals, laundering money...pretty much ANYTHING that included that circular meter. I swear...I felt like I was playing
Tiger Woods PGA Tour every time I made a drug deal!
The graphics are much better than most open-world,
GTA-styled games, and it has a pretty decent soundtrack. The targetting system is FAR better than the system implemented in the
GTA series, and the gun sounds are great.
Overall, though, the game was pretty sweet. Hell, if it had been released 5 years ago alongside
Vice City, it could have been a contender.
As is, though, the story is somewhat dull, it lacks the overall humor of the
GTA series, and I really have no intention of replaying it.
I'd give it a 7.5/10.
I totally concur with XD here.
The problem with SCARFACE: THE WORLD IS YOURS is that there isn't a story. Its like SPIDER-MAN 3, you just have action scenes, ideas, themes and gimmicks, but no compelling STORY to tie it together in a narrative.
I think the charm of the GRAND THEFT AUTO holy trilogy is that each game had its own good story to back up your gameplay: GTA 3 was about a crook wronged by his co-workers who goes out to avenge himself, POINT BLANK style. SAN ANDREAS is a western in a guy coming back home, only to face the same terrors that existed before, but now with an epic and plot-turning script, he has to fight the corrupt police.
With VICE CITY, its truely a SCARFACE story with Tommy Vercetti going to this city and inadvertedly starting himself a criminal empire.
As for SCARFACE: THE WORLD IS YOURS, without the movie and character property, its a decent game but one that people won't play again after beating it.
But then with this SCARFACE game, we see why the problem with companies trying to produce their own GTA-inspired games without being mere knock-offs.
The game tries to re-use GTA's own engine of the protagonist talking with and doing jobs for people as you progress. But thing is, why would Tony Montana do all of this? Why not simply pull out a gun and tell people nicely to sell their businesses to him? At least the GTA games poke fun at itself of this sillyness.
Yet, there was a great idea I loved that *is* different from the GTA series, which is the LAUNDERING MONEY function. Good fun, but after the endless coke deals and the fustratingly inconsistent Coke Delivery missions, this innovation seems quaint.
SCARFACE: THE WORLD IS YOURS isn't a bad game. I enjoyed playing it, and XD is right, its better than it should be. But I don't have any emotional or serious investment with it after Tony Montana is victorious.
Thing is, it could have worked if there WAS a story. Instead of Montana escaping into the night and never paying for killing his best friend and inadvertedly his sister, its all forgiven. HUH?
But what if Montana becomes a crazy enlightened despot of the Drug Kingpin of Miami, where he tries to help people out with his insanely vast wealth and power. Its like that mission where, in the game its a throw-away notion, but of Montana rescuring slaves being transported from Latin America....you could have made Tony more of a bad guy to root for against the WORSE baddies.
RRA'S VIDEO GAME REVIEW SCORE: ***1/2
