The looks of an HD remaster of Scarface: The World is Yours has taken some unexpectedly, particularly a modder who claims it might not be a respectable launch.
Earlier right now a re-release of the official Scarface sport – which was initially launched on PS2, Xbox and PC in 2006, adopted by a Wii launch in 2007 – appeared on the Epic Video games Retailer with out prior discover, priced at $29.99 / £23.79.
The sport was then listed on Steam, with obvious writer EC Digital posting an announcement that it had been “unintentionally pushed dwell on a distinct platform sooner than deliberate”, and so it was “now accelerating our efforts” to finalise a Steam model too.
The itemizing additionally claims that when the sport is launched on Steam it can embrace an “optionally available HD graphics improve” which “makes use of AI-assisted methods to enhance sure visible parts”.
The trailer for the sport additionally seems to easily be a earlier 2006 trailer, full with the identical licensed music that was featured in that.
When Reddit person PCMachinima purchased the Epic Video games Retailer model, they found that it was primarily the prevailing PC model of the sport with two fan-made patches, SilentPatch and Fusion Repair, pre-installed.
This discovery led to an announcement on X by Silent, the developer behind the SilentPatch mod, who mentioned they weren’t contacted and knowledgeable about its inclusion. Additionally they instructed, presumably from their earlier work on the sport, that they’d be shocked if the Scarface film rights holder NBCUniversal was conscious of the discharge.
“I KNOW that the holder of the Scarface license wasn’t keen to re-release the sport, so that is suspect,” they wrote.
Silent then adopted up with one other publish saying that they had finished some extra digging, claiming that the “film IP rights holder seems to be unaware of this”, and that the “retailer listings had been put early in error”.
At this stage, then, it’s doable that the sport might not be an authorised launch, and gamers could be suggested to not purchase the Epic Video games Retailer launch till the state of affairs is clarified.
A sequel to Scarface: The World is Yours was deliberate, which might have seen Tony Montana travelling to Las Vegas. Whereas the sport was finally scrapped, idea artwork emerged on-line in 2022, adopted by gameplay footage displaying it working in a pre-alpha state.
