Scarface The World Is Yours (Vivendi Games) was one of the most hyped videos games of 2006. Following the success of the Godfather game, people couldn’t wait to get their hands on the Scarface game especially when some reviewers said it was as good or better than the Grand Theft Auto Games.

The game takes on a what if scenario, i.e., what if Tony Montana didn’t die at the end of Scarface but instead loses everything and has to rebuild his empire.

First I will start off with an important matter—player control and movement. In comparison to past Vivendi/Universal games I will say that the player control and movement is very good. Next up weapons. I personally felt like the aim and shooting ability could have been vastly improved. According to the tutorial you press L1 to target and R1 to shoot but they failed to mention you must use the analog stick to aim your weapon. Maybe you don’t, maybe it was just me, this isn’t in the instructions but I found more success when I used the analog stick in conjunction with the L1 and R1.

As the game begins you are in your mansion facing a hail of gunfire from enemies. At the top of your balcony you must shoot enemies. Then came my first moment of “oh this isn’t as much of a free world at Grand Theft Auto,” when I tried to descend the left side of the staircase I couldn’t get down it. It’s like there was an invisible forcefield. Perhaps you need to kill a certain amount of enemies before you can descend down the left stairs. I made my kills and then descended down the right side of the staircase to take on the remainder of the enemies.

There is a function named blind rage that comes out when you press a button on the controller. This function makes Tony temporarily invincible. When he dies, on the screen it says “You f*cked up.” That is just one example of the cursing in the game. The F word is used so much in this game that as an adult I wish there would have been a filter to change the language setting. I literally had to play the game on mute because of all of the foul language.

Scarface-The World is Yours is a fun game if you like violent games. I will point out that as a gamer Rock Star Games has spoiled us terribly. In Scarface-The World Is Yours you pretty much have to stay on the mission or there isn’t much to do. In the past five years the Grand Theft Auto series has given us the ability to perform street races, visit the shooting range, import vehicles, gamble, dance, work out, or just walk around and mess things up when we aren’t on a mission. In Scarface-The World is Yours you basically have to stay on mission. There isn’t too much extra to do when you aren’t on a mission. Sometimes as game player I get tired of shooting so much and just want to take a break and do something different.

I strongly suggest buying the Prima Games strategy guide. It definitely unlocks the full potential of the game. Scarface-The World Is Yours overall is a fun game, but it still doesn’t give the game player that total free open world experience that some of the GTA games do. But yeah, get the strategy guide, it gives the player something to look forward to.

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