Scarface: The World is Yours
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Developer(s): Radical Entertainment
Publisher(s): Vivendi Games (US, EU, AU), Vivendi Universal Games (EU)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Wikipedia: Link
Game review links: IGN: 8.7/10, Metacritic: 75/100, Eurogamer: 7/10, GameSpot: 6.4/10
Game description: In a complex world filled with excess and greed, players can take the role of Tony Montana, one of the most ruthless gangsters ever depicted on film. Highly acclaimed screenwriter, David McKenna, has written an original event-driven storyline for the interactive game that leads the player through a sordid underworld. 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. Players travel through the steamy, often violent streets of Miami, the irie islands of the Florida Keys, the Bahamas and various other locales and 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.
Test configurations on Windows:
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| NTSC-U | Windows |
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29 12 2012 1.1.0 r5492- | GSdx 5464 SSE41 [09 12 2012] |
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Crashes shortly ingame. | |
| NTSC-U | Windows |
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1.3. 20 of September- | GSDX |
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USA v02.20(10/02/2006), High consumption of CPU., Game presents lack of stability,mainly with MTVU and some speedhacker,However free of all these game will crash time by time. | |
| NTSC-U | Windows |
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1.5.0 Dev-2362 May 2 2018 | GSdx | ? | Open GL ( Hardware ). Gamefixes Used: Manual hack- I bit Scarface the World is Yours | |
Test configurations on Linux:
| Environment | Configurations | Comments | Tester | ||||
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| NTSC-U | Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon |
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2.1.126 | Vulkan |
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Game Properties:
• Emulation: Enable Multicicle Threaded VU1 (MTVU) - Checked Game experience: • Stable framerate (~30 FPS) • Responsive controls (used DualShock 3) • Some conversations were sped-up and out of sync, during cutscenes. • Game hangs/crashed on 3 occasions: - 1st hang: Starting Pedro's Pawn Shop cleaning mission (right after the cutscene) - 2nd hang: Doing side-missions, while Gang Heat escalated to max and finished slaughter assignment for supplier. - Crash To Desktop: After buying Pedro's Pawn Shop, then saving, and starting a new mission. |
BlackNRoses |
| NTSC-U | Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon |
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2.1.211 | Vulkan |
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Game Properties:
• Emulation: Enable Multicicle Threaded VU1 (MTVU) - Checked Game experience: • All PS2 effects are present, including rain and blood decals. Whether it's raining or not at the mansion escape sequence (the game's intro) seems completely random. • Stable framerate (~30 FPS) • Responsive controls (used DualShock 3) • Conversations now play normally, with occasional hangs. • Game may appear to freeze while loading side-missions; check Known Issues. • Game freezes on 1 condition: - Cancelling side-missions; check Known Issues. |
BlackNRoses |
Test configurations on macOS:
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? | ? | ? | There are no test results for this game on macOS. You can help by playing and submitting your test results here. |
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Trivia
- Also known as Scarface
- Performance problems are due to differences in design between the EE (PS2's CPU) and most x86 CPUs, and the way developers from Radical Entertainment chose to place most of the game load on the EE.
- The EE could crunch around 6200 MFLOPS, in 32 bits (or single-precision) format. Most multi-core PCs can surpass this, by off-loading calculations to different cores. In PCSX2, this is done through MTVU.
- PS2 version is known to display the most graphical effects, compared to Xbox, Wii and PC (as of October 23, 2024).
Known Issues
Game freezes after cancelling sub-missions
- Status: Active
- Type: Severe
- Description: Cancelling sub-missions freezes the game, even while in-game music is playing in the background and the UI is still active. Controllers and keyboard binds won't respond at all. The issue is present at either native and up-scaled resolution, Hardware and Software mode, and independently of MTVU being enabled or not.
- Workaround: Load a previous save-file or save-state.
Slow gameplay
- Status: Active
- Type: Major
- Description: Game (animations, audio, video) slows down constantly on free roaming, firefights and crowded places, whether there's cars or peds. It happens because of the game's heavy reliance on CPU, leading to constant bottlenecks.
- Workaround: Enable MTVU in Emulation Settings > Game Properties. This fix will enable the emulator to utilize all of your PC's cores, hugely improving performance.
Ocassional freezing while loading side-missions
- Status: Active
- Type: Minor
- Description: Randomly, while side missions are loading, game may seem to freeze. The screen fades to black, the mission prompt appears with the conversation between Tony and Félix playing in the background, but the "PRESS X" prompt won't appear at all.
- Workaround: Press Triangle, or its equivalent, on your controller or keyboard. That will cause the "PRESS X" prompt to show and resume gameplay.
Note: This may not be an issue. It is probably a PS2 bug, but I do not have access to the real PS2 hardware in order to verify this.
Fixed Issues
Game hangs or crashes while MTVU is enabled
- Status: Fixed
- Type: Severe
- Description: When starting, finishing missions (Pedro's Pawn Shop specifically) or completing side-missions, game will hang and won't respond. In the worst case scenario (mission completed, Pedro's Pawn Shop bought and game saved), starting a new mission will cause a crash to desktop, closing the emulator.
- Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.
Missing and disappearing shadows
- Status: Fixed
- Type: Minor
- Description: The stencil shadows are often missing and disappear in the open world when using Hardware mode.
- Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.
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