The World is Yours

For the original 1983 movie, see Scarface.

The World is Yours
Publication Information
Developer	Radical Entertainment
Publisher	Vivendi Games (Under Sierra Entertainment name)
Release date	NA: October 10, 2006 (PC, PS2, XBOX) EU: October 13, 2006 (Wii) NA: June 12, 2007 (Wii) EU: June 30, 2007 AU: July 19, 2007
Genre	Action-adventure
Platform	Microsoft Windows PlayStation 2 Xbox Wii
Game Information
Setting	Alternative canon in which Tony Montana survived the attack on his mansion by Alejandro Sosa.
Time Period	1984

Scarface: The World is Yours is a video game developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Vivendi Universal Games. The game is based on the 1983 motion picture Scarface film starring Al Pacino, who is reprising his role as Tony Montana, with André Sogliuzzo providing Montana's voice. It was released on the PC, Playstation 2 and Xbox on October 8, 2006, and on the Wii on June 12, 2007. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game were unofficially cancelled due to the fact that the older gen gaming system wouldn't work on the then-new ones.

Plot

The game begins with the movie's final scene in 1983; The Bolivian Cartel/Sosa's Army raiding Tony's Mansion. Instead of dying, Tony kills the assassin that killed him in the movie, the Skull, by turning around and spotting him. Tony then fights his way through his mansion, where several of his henchmen are gunned down and an explosion rocks around the mansion. Tony then fights his way through the underground to his pool to escape to his awaiting car, the Ambassador, but the exit is blown up by a bazooka used by Juan. Tony fights his way around the mansion, witnessing his tiger eating Jose, and is almost killed but the police and S.W.A.T arrive and wipe out the remaining assassins, inadvertently helping Montana. Tony escapes, barely alive, and a surviving assassin informs Sosa that Tony's empire is destroyed over a phone call and that the police has taken over the mansion.

Narration

"What happens when the world is yours and then you lose it?"

―Frank Lopez (Narrator)

Setting

In the year of 1984 in Miami, Florida, 3 months after escaping from Sosa's attack, Tony now has to build his empire from scratch and take back what's his and eventually get his revenge on Sosa.

He also must take over the turfs that were taken over by rival gangs, like the Diaz Cartel, Contreras Cartel and Gomez Cartel.

Combat

The game features a Balls Meter that can be activated by shooting certain spots on the enemy's body (example: head, right shoulder, groin) during which Tony kills somebody and he can taunt them to increase his Balls meter and balls in general. This balls meter, when full, will allow you to go into Blind Rage mode, where the screen turns blood red, and the game temporarily shifts to a "first-person shooter" perspective. While in this mode, Tony is invincible to all forms of damage, including explosions, getting run over by cars, and Kill Tony (commit suicide) cheat, can fall from tallest building to highest heights and survive, has unlimited ammunition with no reload for all weapons, time will slow down slightly, he deals increased damage toward enemies, vehicles, boats, and aircraft, he can auto-lock-on to multiple enemies and can even auto-lock-on to an overwhelming and extreme amount of targets at once, he can shoot at innocents (but cannot kill them) and every enemy kill gives him +200 health. However, falling into the water will instantly turn off the Blind rage mode as Tony cannot swim with a weapon in hands. Not only can he use any type of gun but also use melee weapons (including a machete, chainsaw and a lead Pipe). In addition, the balls meter can also be refilled through other means, such as hitting another car while driving and immediately taunting them, killing enemies and taunting them, using the 'Fill Balls Meter' cheat code (FPATCH), or talking in conversations with new citizens and NPC's. Also, there are two hidden "Sperm Bank" in the game, one at Little Havana and the other at the Industrial Zone, which look just like the "blood banks" (which are used to refill health) however, here the player can sell his sperm from his balls meter for cash. The amount of cash the player receives depends on Reputation level. Tony can also fight and kill gangs in locked areas (including the Industrial Zone, Trailer Park and The Islands), meaning that when the game tells you "You Killed Them", that means gang nests from those locked territories will replenish and gang members will respawn again, which is different from when the player takes over a turf, where the gang members do not respawn. Locked turfs that are not contested and not owned (including Industrial Zone, Trailer Park and The Islands) are a great way to earn more cash to spend on Exotics and increase your Reputation level, fix broken or destroyed vehicles, increase Balls to unlock Femme Fatales, which give you upgrades such as more balls, increase time in Blind Rage mode, and more health.

Heads-up display (HUD)

The heads-up display (HUD) in Scarface: The World Is Yours provides players with essential in-game information during gameplay. It features a health bar and a "balls" meter, which fills as the player performs aggressive or daring actions and enables a temporary invincible state called Rage Mode. A mini-map displays nearby objectives, enemies, and law enforcement presence, while additional indicators show the player’s current weapon, ammunition, cash (both "dirty" and "clean"), and notoriety level. Mission objectives and contextual prompts appear dynamically, and specific HUD elements adjust during driving or drug-dealing activities.

Game details

• Unlike the GTA games, it is not possible to kill innocent civilians as Tony (despite this game being even more violent than GTA when it comes to battles). In the attempt of shooting an innocent person Tony will utter words such as "I only kill people who are dumb enough to fuck me" or "I ain't no fuckin' worm!", and no rounds will be fired. This is due to Tony's new, strict moral code, which prevents him from killing indiscriminately (such as in the movie, where he refused to kill a reporter's wife and kids). In the event of running a civilian down with a car, the civilian will just get back up unharmed, or might start running away. Tony can, however, beat the civilians and friendly allies up. This can lead to a bit of frustration in a gunfight, as innocent civilians and friendly allies may get in Tony's way and the enemy gang members aren't subject to that rule. It is also interesting to note that Tony can kill his own henchmen if he pleases, but frankly, they aren't innocent to begin with either, being gangsters, drug dealers and such. Killing his own men will not give him any Balls however. It is possible to kill the S.W.A.T team, DEA agents, the police and blow up police vehicles, DEA vans and police helicopters, as they aren't really innocent and friendly anyway. If you play as the Chauffeur, Enforcer, or the Assassin, it is possible to kill innocent civilians and friendly allies, since they are not in-honored bound to "not fuck anyone who didn't already have it coming to 'em". Using these characters and fighting rival gangs is easier, as the innocents and the friendlies won't be avoided the collateral damage status and friendly fire.
• The game was originally developed exclusively for the Playstation 2, the Xbox and PC, but ended up being developed for the Nintendo Wii as well in order to make it more popular and make more purchases.
• The game features the voices of several cast members from Scarface (1983 film), such as Steven Bauer (who voices The Sandman), Robert Loggia and Al Israel.

Easter Eggs and References

• The game also features famous celebrity voice actors, such as Pitbull (who voices Tino), Ricky Gervais (who voices Simon Trent), Ice T (who voices John Johnson), Lemmy Kilmister (who voices Limey) and Tommy Chong (who voices Reginald).
• It features a very realistic environment of Miami which includes: Little Havana, Downtown, North Beach, and South Beach.
  • It also features several different and same locations from the movie, including Lopez Motors (which has been taken over by the Diaz Brothers and renamed to Diaz Motors), the Babylon Club, the Sun Ray Hotel, Freedomtown, Coconut Grove, and Tony's Mansion.
• It also features some fictional locations, called "Fronts" that can be purchased to facilitate drug distribution. Some of these fronts are loosely based on real world locations or named after real people. For example, the Oakley Drive-In Theater is named after a now closed theatre in Ohio of the same name, U-Gin Shotgun Bar is named and made after Yu-Jin Kim, an Asian artist in British Columbia, etc. Funny enough, the owner of said Bar, is the Chinese Ana Yamada.
• The game also features a number of Islands loosely based on the smuggling trade in the Bahamas, Caymans, & Puerto Rico islands during the 1980's. However, the main two Islands that are featured in the game seem to be based upon the Caymans specifically.
  • There is also an UFO located in the middle of the sea far from Lobster Cay.
  • There is also a small island in the game located right next to the Black Sands that has characters resembling the cast of the sitcom Gilligan's Island. These characters are the following: Carla, Fredrick, Jonas, Kitty, Brenda, Tyler and Vlad.
• The deceased Manny and Gina's remains are among the furniture that can be placed in Tony's Mansion. The mansion can also be customized with three distinct themes: the original one from the movie, a modern-looking one with a shark tank, and a Gothic castle-looking one with a fireplace.
• This game (much like in Grand Theft Auto series) features fictional vehicles resembling real cars, such as the Lakota Fastback which is based on the Ford Mustang, the QM Convertible which resembles Tony's Cadillac Eldorado with tiger skin seat covers from the movie, and a car resembling Tony's Porsche 928 from the movie.
• While swimming, if Tony stays in the water too long while covered in blood (or even if he isn't), he will start to attract a shark, and the shark will eat Tony, who will utter a Wilhelm scream. The same will happen with other characters, like the Driver (Chauffeur), the Enforcer, and the Assassin, but never with enemy characters who swim in the same water.
• All of the soundtracks in the game (except the purchasable one) are from the 80's, to give the player more vibe that the game is taking place in 1984.
• The NPC's in the game, ranging from regular citizens to cops to gang members, might mention known real life figures during conversations, which include: Stephen Hawking, Paul Muni, David Koresh, Dick Clark, Johnny Cash, Jimmy Carter and Madonna.

System requirements

Minimum

• GPU:DirectX(R) 9.0c-compatible video card (ATI(R) Radeon(R) 9200 or NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) FX 5500 with 128 MB RAM) or higher
• CPU:Pentium(R) 4 1.8 GHz or AMD(R) equivalent
• RAM: 256 MB
• Storage Space: 2.9 GB

Recommended

• GPU: DirectX(R) 9.0c-compatible video card (ATI(R) Radeon(R) x800 or NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) FX 6800) or higher
• CPU: Pentium(R) 4 2.8 GHz or AMD(R) equivalent
• RAM: 512 MB

Lifestyle

Scarface: The World is Yours has customization abilities and this can be done in various ways: changing outfits, buying vehicles, buying weapons, customizing the Mansion through themes and also putting objects into the mansion with Exotics, furniture and other rare items. By buying these exotics, the player can increase their Reputation points substantially and get a taunting call from Alejandro Sosa.

Development

According to Game Informer and Vivendi Universal, Scarface: The World Is Yours sold over 2 million copies in North America, Europe, and Australia. The commercial for the game featured the Mötley Crüe song "Kickstart My Heart", although the song was not in the game. However, the band's drummer, Tommy Lee, played the role of the manager of Fidel's Records and Tapes, Dean.

Reaction

The game has received largely favorable reviews. At the time of writing, only eight of the twenty-nine reviews cited by Metacritic for the Xbox version of the game have given the game a score lower than 75%, with most reviews lying in the 80–90% range (IGN gave it a review of 8.7/10, making it an Editor's Choice game, and Game Informer awarded it 85%). However, a small number of reviews have been less favorable, with GameSpot only giving it 6.6 out of 10 and the G4 TV show X-Play giving it a 3 out of 5, and OXM giving it only 4.5/10. The PS2 reviews have been very similar to those of the Xbox reviews, with the 80-90% range dominating but several notable sources voicing dissent. The PC version had been released with several bugs, especially in controls and map loading systems, thus giving the game mixed reviews, but with a similarly respectable average score of around 72-75% in Metacritic and GameRankings. Gamespot gave the Wii version 5.8 for what they thought was a "poor control method", while IGN gave it an 8.5, praising the new controls and saying that it was "the best version of the game available", scored slightly lower only due to its late release and nature as a last-gen port.

The game has sold over 2.6 million copies since launched.

Strategy Guide

An official strategy guide released by Prima Games provides useful tips, hints, notes, and other helpful advice for the players. The strategy guide also reveals the status of every vehicle, names & pictures of the characters encountered, and other information.

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If this site isn't working, try checking out the Prima Games guide on the Internet Archives, although every second page is missing there.

Cheats

The following cheat codes DO NOT hinder progress towards 100% Game Completion. They are safe to use and they will help the player out if needed.

• KILTONY - Commit Suicide
• FPATCH - Fill Balls Meter / Activate Blind Rage
• AMMO - Max Ammo
• MEDIK - Refill Health
• TBURGLR - Repair Vehicle
• NOBALLS - Decrease Gang Heat
• FLYSTRT - Decrease Cop Heat
• GOBALLS - Increase Gang Heat
• DONUT - Increase Cop Heat
• MARTHA - Change Time Of Day
• SHAZAAM - Toggle Lightning
• RAINY - Toggle Rain
• 666999 - Spawn Bacinari
• OLDFAST - Spawn Ariel MK III
• BUMMER - Spawn Bodog Stampede
• DUMPER - Spawn Odin VH88
• DOZER - Spawn Bulldozer
• TUNEME - BReal "The World Is Yours" Music Track
• BLACK - Black Suit
• BLACKSH - Black Suit w/ Shades
• BLUE - Blue Suit
• BLUESH - Blue Suit w/ Shades
• WHITE - White Suit
• WHITESH - White Suit w/ Shades
• GRAY - Gray Suit
• GRAYSH - Gray Suit w/ Shades
• HAWAII - Hawaiian Shirt Tony
• HAWAIIG - Hawaiian Shirt Tony w/ Shades
• SANDY - Sandy Shirt Tony
• SANDYSH - Sandy Shirt Tony w/ Shades

See also

• Scarface (film)
• Scarface: Money, Power, Respect
• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
• The Godfather: Blackhand Edition

External links

• Scarface: The World Is Yours - Official site
• Wikipedia page; Scarface: The World Is Yours