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GameStop celebrates Scarface launch

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpotPosted Oct 6, 2006 2:09 pm PT

Retailer holds premiere party for Vivendi Games' adaptation of Al Pacino flick at Miami nightclub.

With the game adaptations of Al Pacino's '80s epic about a drug-running immigrant's rise to power (and precipitous fall) on their way to stores, GameStop celebrated the release last night with a Scarface launch party at the Miami, Florida, nightclub Mansion.

Dillon and Loggia ham it up.

In keeping with the game's star-studded cast of voice actors, the event drew a number of its own famous faces. In addition to original Scarface cast member Robert Loggia, GameStop said its event also drew the likes of Indy Racing League star Helio Castroneves, former Miss Brazil Ana Carolina, and Entourage cast member Kevin "Matt's Brother" Dillon.

Attendees had the opportunity to play the game throughout the event, with Dillon and Castroneves competing to see who was the better player while raising money for charity. The pair managed to raise $10,000 for the Design A Cure cancer prevention campaign and the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation.

Scarface: The World Is Yours is expected on store shelves next week for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC, while the PlayStation Portable is playing host to Scarface: Money. Power. Respect.

39 Comments

  • GrimBee

    Posted Oct 11, 2006 2:45 pm PT

    This game is great meng... But the psp is an absolute stink-fest. Its completely terrible, But its got everything a game could want!! Graphics, sounds, gameplay..

    Well, it HAS got those things, but the way they put them together is just awful. Again I say COMPLETELY TERRIBLE. Absolutely diabolical.

    Proposterous I tell you! Scarface on PSP is one massive waste of your short meaningless life. Well, once you play the PSP version, your life WILL have a meaning, and that meaning is the blood-red hatred for this game!

    The xbox version is pretty good though, framerate aint smooth, ever (well, its ok at times, just not when turning the camera round). And the presipiece of it is fantastic, driving and stuff.. cursing..
    Its great for about a week, after that you just itch to get into some stunts which arent there etc...

    GTA was great because it was so free. But this game follows a plot, and a character. In the end, it gives the character s sort of Stereotypical feel, except actually defining Tony Montana, it cheapens him somewhat.

    Im waiting to write a review.. silly gamespot keeps saying "product not avaliable" or something. Just wish the entire psp game was not avaliable, anywhere. Worst purchase of my life!

  • _Sam_

    Posted Oct 9, 2006 6:05 pm PT

    is it any good?

  • boxcarracer565

    Posted Oct 8, 2006 11:52 pm PT

    scareface for the psp is prly gunna be garbage. i'm a huge psp fan, so dont get my wrong. im good at judgement of games, and i called "garbage" on the godfather for psp. adn im callin garbage again.

  • Lobezno_D

    Posted Oct 8, 2006 7:35 pm PT

    Is this supposed to be a good thing they're celebrating?

  • Riverwolf007

    Posted Oct 8, 2006 1:51 pm PT

    Gamestop should be celebrating the 800% markup on used games too, after all it paid to get matt dillions brother there. What does he charge for a personal appearence? Maybe a hot dinner at Wendy's?

  • Lush

    Posted Oct 8, 2006 8:40 am PT

    ummm I got this game on Friday October 6th. Even though Pacino isn't doin' the voice, it's still pretty sick. This game is intense, and it doesn't get boring. Just play it in moderation.

  • majestikk

    Posted Oct 8, 2006 8:21 am PT

    Well we all knew Al Pacino wasn't doing the voice, and if you really thought he was, then you were asking for too much out of the legend. Now will the voice sound like Tony Montana? Of course it would. So many people love to impersonate that voice, that they prolly held a casting, and got the guy that sounded just right.

    Now if you're expecting a good game we'll have to wait and see, anybody that will play this game will be a true Scarface fan, so I'm sure they're buying this game on the name alone, and not if it's actually good.

  • evolutionex

    Posted Oct 7, 2006 8:47 pm PT

    There ain't no Scarface without Al pacino. this game is going to be a screw up!

  • fonzieahmed

    Posted Oct 7, 2006 7:43 pm PT

    i hope they dont mess up a great movie with a crappy game

  • hemakm3

    Posted Oct 7, 2006 5:13 pm PT

    Might get.

  • ivan_the_one

    Posted Oct 7, 2006 2:53 pm PT

    that's cool I guess.

  • Cypher_VR

    Posted Oct 7, 2006 1:41 pm PT

    celebrities will be bragging about having this game on MTV cribs

  • gautam3

    Posted Oct 7, 2006 10:53 am PT

    PSP screenshots = cheesy, boring and uninventive. an utter dissapointment.

  • SavoyPrime

    Posted Oct 7, 2006 7:57 am PT

    This doesn't really matter to me since the game will be crap anyway. How you gonna have a Scarface game without the real Scarface doing the voice. Booo!

  • Maquis_UK

    Posted Oct 7, 2006 4:55 am PT

    lol matt dillons brother... yes, all-star cast indeed. where is kevin bacons dad? heheheh

  • anamnawshad

    Posted Oct 7, 2006 2:46 am PT

    No Pacino

  • williamwu1985

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 10:20 pm PT

    god, what a never heard of game, gamestop is so boring to cerebrate this

  • jakeboudville

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 9:20 pm PT

    nice

  • EpidemicZero

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 7:07 pm PT

    The game was shipped out last week or so sometime, and arrived at retailers then. It was/is street dated for October 8th. Yet, EBGames/Gamestop reached an exclusive deal with Vivendi allowing them to retail the game completely legitimately as of October 5th. Any retailers selling before that broke street date, and face fines/loss of inventory if caught. As of yesterday, Scarface may be purchased completely legitimately though from any Gamestop or EBGames store, nationwide. And that is what's going on with the Scarface release -

  • Shrodinger

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 5:41 pm PT

    Scarface The world is Yours is at my walmart. the packing for the pc is crap---just a box and from the weight, no manual. At least the game looks awesome!

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