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| 7-8-07 - Grab the Nunchuck and your balls in Scarface
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Straight.com
Trigger Happy By Blaine Kyllo
Publish Date: June 28, 2007
One of the most profound and intense film characters of all time is Tony Montana, brought to life with aplomb by Al Pacino in Brian De Palma's ultraviolent film Scarface. Last fall, Vancouver's Radical Entertainment transformed the film into a raucous video game for the PS2 and Xbox that rewrote the ending of the film. In the game, Tony survives the film's final massacre, and the player, as Tony, must re-create the drug dealer's empire.
Not everyone was happy that the game's developers took liberties with the story. "It was a touchy subject with some of the hard-core fans," producer Geoff Thomas said, on the line from his Vancouver office. "But we felt that a game that rehashed the events of the movie would ultimately be unsatisfying for players. This game is all about being Tony Montana and living the corrupted American dream and infusing everything about Tony into what you do in the game."
Which, if you remember the movie, includes profanity in the extreme and gestures like crotch grabbing and flipping the bird. Imagine, then, how much fun it will be to play the newly released Wii version of Scarface with the Wii's motion-sensing controllers.
The Wii Remote and Nunchuk are used for firing weapons, driving vehicles, taunting people, and even chopping enemies to pieces with a chain saw. "What the Wii really brings to the table in terms of a gaming experience is the controls, how you interface with the game," Thomas explained.
So when you, as Tony Montana, are walking down the streets of Miami and someone insults you, all you need to do is give the screen the finger with the Nunchuk, and the on-screen Tony responds with a gesture of his own. Not to mention a stream of expletives.
"It feels more visceral and in tune with what you want to do," Thomas said. "You can shake your fist at somebody or flip them off, or you can even grab your balls if you want to and Tony will react accordingly."
And when wielding a chain saw in tribute to the iconic scene from the film, you'll be on your feet, swinging wildly. It's just a natural reaction, and it's something Thomas and his colleagues considered when coming up with the gestures.
"What we like about these gestures," he explained, "is that they feel contextual with the action. We wanted to make sure our gestures actually felt like it [the movement] was doing what you were doing on-screen."
Lest you think that having your arms up and extended for the entire 40 hours of game play means you'll need some training at the gym, Thomas assured me that isn't the case. "We designed the game to be played from the couch."
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| 7-8-07 - Scarface: The World is Yours
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The Wiire - Scarface: The World is Yours
by Eric Wright (2007-06-26)
Tony Montana or Michael Corleone? Scarface or The Godfather? We'll leave it to film buffs to decide which celluloid showcase was Al Pacino's crowning achievement (hint: both films are fantastic). When it comes to the games they've spawned, though, their quality isn't nearly as even.
Scarface: The World is Yours or The Godfather: Blackhand Edition? Which one should you buy? Let me help you decide by comparing how the games fare against each other in 25 different areas:
Main Character: Godfather lets you play as a created member of the Corleone mafia family. Scarface lets you play as Tony Montana. Advantage: Scarface.
Supporting Cast: Godfather surrounds players with memorable characters pulled right from the movie who are authentically portrayed by the actors who brought them to life. Scarface surrounds Tony with forgettable, cliché characters who are voiced by celebrities more at home in People magazine than on the streets of Miami. Advantage: Godfather.
Main story: Scarface resurrects Tony Montana, changing one of the most famous deaths in Hollywood history, and forced the most powerful man in Miami to do menial jobs for people he should be able to crush by looking at them. Godfather not only lets players re-enact the most famous scenes from the movie, but gives those scenes your character's fresh, "fly on the wall" perspective. Moreover, the original story of Frankie and Monk Malone is integrated seamlessly with the source material. Advantage: Godfather.
Side missions: Godfather offers over 30 unique hit missions, as well as bribery and blackmail missions. Scarface allows users to sell drugs and exterminate rival gang members using Tony, or knock out gangs and police after buying the Enforcer and Assassin, respectively. Scarface has a more to do, but there is more variety to the missions in Godfather. Furthermore, there is a glitch in Scarface's Assassin missions so that they do not lower "cop heat" as they are supposed to. Advantage: Godfather.
Shooting: Both games offer precision control using the Wii Remote. Godfather features realistic location-specific damage (a feature that is only half-implemented in Scarface), but Scarface allows users to shoot in a first-person perspective if their "balls meter" is full. Advantage: Scarface.
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| 6-30-07 - Say hello to my Wii-ttle friend
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From Nova Scotia News 6/30/07 :
Scarface takes aim at older Nintendo fans
By NEIL MacFARLANE
Scarface: The World Is Yours, Nintendo Wii, Vivendi Games/Radical Entertainment. Rated M, MSRP $59.99.
IT’S NOT OFTEN I get to review the same game twice. Despite multiple platform versions of games often being released simultaneously, differences between them are generally minor and rarely warrant a critique of their own.
Scarface: The World Is Yours is an exception, as not only does the unique control-scheme of the Wii bring an entirely new gameplay element to the table, but the fact that a game like this was ever released on a Nintendo console is worth some discussion.
Packed with all the same profanity, excessive violence and explosive action of the 2006 version that was released on other consoles, this Wii version was a bold move.
But was it worth a re-release of a year-old game? It’s hard to say no. The term making the rounds with insiders that describes this kind of Wii-specific repackaging of a game is "Wii-make." This isn’t a full redesign by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, it’s almost the exact same game of last year: same story, same bad guys, same missions, same everything.
So what’s the point of showing up to the dance a year late? As with many things Wii, it’s all about the control.
See the entire Nova Scotia News article here.
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Scarface: The World is Yours Wii Movies
We've got the final version and it's a good fun. See just how violent and profane it really is in these new 480p Wii movies.
by Matt Casamassina (article here )
June 1, 2007 - Nobody can say that Wii doesn't get "mature" titles -- games classified by the amount of violence and profanity they include. EA and Midway have already shipped the M-rated Godfather: Blackhand Edition and Mortal Kombat: Armageddon for the system respectively and later this month Vivendi Universal will debut a much-improved build of Scarface: The World is Yours for Wii. Outside of Manhunt 2, which explodes onto the little white box on July 10, Scarface is one of the most violent and profane titles we've yet experienced on any console. It also happens to be fun.
We've been toying around with the final Wii version of the game for the last couple of days, and we've taken the liberty of posting the first-ever 480p / 16:9 widescreen direct-feed movies of it in motion. In today's movies, you will see gunplay carnage and some seriously twisted pick-up lines.
Be warned, there is a never-ending stream of gore and f-bombs in the videos below. Download at your own risk.
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The Scarface video game creates a gameplay environment that authentically recreates the historical time period of the film, touching on politics, news items and events of the day. As Tony Montana (in an alternate-ending story concept that follows the events of the original movie classic), players will travel through the steamy, often violent streets of Miami, the irie islands of the Florida Keys, the Bahamas and various other locales and will interact with a world full of seedy and dangerous characters to procure information, negotiate business deals, smuggle contraband and avoid rivals and DEA on a mission to rebuild their fallen empire. See the FiringSquad.com article here.
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