Review Of Scarface On The Sony Playstation 2
Author: Dominic Snadeeza

Tony Montana, aka Scarface, is probably the only one who rose
on top of the cocaine drug trade industry and built his own
empire. It seems like almost humanly impossible to do and yet he
did this with enough ambition, determination and balls. Making
sure that he lives by some strict principles in life, Tony sees
to it that he does not hurt anyone who don't deserve it. But he
is faced with the ultimate challenge of rebuilding an empire he
has worked so hard to build. As you play this game, whether Tony
eventually succeeds or not will be up to you.

Scarface – The World is Yours is based on the Scarface movie,
which was released on 1983 but with a whole lot of exciting new
twists. Although it is a single player action/adventure game,
you've got enough thrills and action to help make your solo
gaming efforts worth all your time. Set in Miami, the game
starts off with Tony's escape from the hands of Sosa's men. This
has fueled his desire to take revenge and regain his empire.

You have two focus on this game: managing your empire and
setting up fronts for your all your drug trades. But to be able
to do this, you have complete certain missions, eliminate your
opponents, and build your reputation. By selling cocaine, you
can earn quite a lot of money. But this won't be an easy ride,
as you have to start of selling to street dealers. Eventually,
you'd seal some great deals with large suppliers and money
should come easy for you.

Since reputation is what you need to re-establish Tony's
empire, you must work on building that up by completing your
missions, buying fronts for your drug deals or exotic items. If
you have made enough great deals, you should have the money you
need to buy these items and fronts. When you have more power,
you'll reputation will grow as well. And aside from allowing you
to have access to more items such as cars, boat, weapons and
other exotic items, your higher reputation will also open up
extra opportunities to take control over Miami.

As they watch your front businesses and empire grow, your rival
gangs will not just sit back and let you do that. They will try
to disrupt your business by attacking your fronts and destroying
them. So this might be the time to hire the help of a henchman
or buy a surveillance to help guard your investments.

Miami is divided into different turfs and you will start off
your empire in Little Havana, and you'll eventually explore some
other parts of the city. Within each turfs are fronts that you
need to obtain and control from other gangs. When you have
succeeded in doing this, you will find a separate island where
the cocaine is being produced. Work on sealing some great deals
with the large suppliers so you can start smuggling the drugs
and place them on a warehouse for distribution.

The best way to control your hold on each turf is to purchase
fronts in that turf. In doing business with the managers of the
fronts you have purchased, the price rate and demand for the
drugs you supply them will increase and this should help boost
your earnings. And then the next step for you is to defend your
fronts and you would need weapons for this.

The weapons that you can use for this game range from a hand
gun, to automatic rifles, to shotguns, to rocket launchers.
Although you begin with quite a few choices, they will continue
to expand as you build you arsenal and as you increase your
reputation. And aside from more choices, a higher reputation
will also enable you to upgrade your weapons to increase their
accuracy and to activate the silencer.

When you have constant gunfire and gang warfare going on,
expect the police to be constantly on your guard. Although you
can ease the heat of the police, you will need to pay them off
or else they will chase after you. If you kill gang members,
you'd have to pay that off to the police too. But stay away from
being indicted, or it will cost you more than enough money you
are willing to spare. At some point, you'd have police tailing
you in an exciting car chase.

Therefore, a reliable set of wheels could come in handy. You
can use one of your own, but oftentimes the speed at which the
chase goes on could demand something more that is built for the
chase. But you should not have any problems with these when you
have built enough reputation as you will be able to buy and
handle faster cars. Now, you'd have no more of those run-in with
police officers because you can easily speed away. And not only
that, to add more excitement to the game, there is a nice
variety of choices for your potential car. You'd be made to
choose between the likes of a well-armored but slow running
vehicles to a speedy but prone to damage cars.

Well, Tony's deadly not just because of his cars and mansions,
he is also equipped with a rage meter that builds up when
performing acts using the "balls". Because of this, fighting off
multiple enemies can be quite easy so there's no need for you to
worry about being outnumbered. When your rage meter is filled,
Tony becomes invulnerable and he can unleash a powerful attack
that will target multiple enemies at once. In the process, Tony
also gains health by absorbing the health of the enemy he has
killed.

Another great way to upgrade your health, rage meter and
stamina is to meet femme fatales and invite them to stay in
Tony's mansion. This can be possible by gaining a certain amount
of balls and soon enough, these femme fatales will start to
appear on your map, so you can travel to meet them. This will
absolutely fit among Tony's beautiful collection of exotic
items. And speaking of exotic items, every purchase you make of
these items will help increase your reputation, varying mainly
on the price and rarity of each item. When you have reached a
certain level of reputation, you have to go back to the mansion
to unlock new turfs and weapons while also upgrading Tony's
skills.

And when it comes to Tony's skills, nothing could probably be
as exciting as the intimidation meter that enables him to get
away with quite many things. It is probably his most powerful
weapon and has allowed him to seal great drug deals, stop
aggression of gang members, get the best rates from the bank,
and talk your way out after being busted by the cops. This one
though requires timing for you to be able to pull this one off
or you could end up ruining everything.

Graphically, Scarface is just plain beautiful. It has obviously
painstakingly paid attention to every tiny detail that would
help bring this game together and recreate an entirely new
world, although it was based on the film and some other specific
locations taken from the movie. Some of these locations include
the mansion itself, the Oakley Drive-In, the Babylon Club, the
Sun Ray Motel, and even Angel Dust Donuts.

The same could also be said for the sound which has played a
major part in this game. The actors did a great job in terms of
the voice acting. Aside from that, players to this game will
also be treated to the movie's official soundtrack and a wide
variety of artists and music genres. And to make your gaming
even more exciting, you can also create a playlist via the music
menu so you can listen along to your favorites tunes as you play
the game.

Every detail of this game has been rendered to deliver the best
and closest Scarface experience you could possibly have outside
of the movie. As you play Tony Montana, you'd have endless
possibilities in terms of what you can do, knowing the power and
skills that you have. This is also the closest opportunity that
you can have to experiencing the lavish lifestyle of a drug
kingpin. So join Tony's adventures as he works on rebuilding his
empire.


About The Author: Dominic Snadeeza has been writing Sony PS2
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