"He was really good to work with," Weber said. So game assets, voice samples and scripts went first to Universal and then Pacino for approval. Vivendi Universal, which ended up buying Radical last March, was also closely involved as holder of the Scarface licence. He also had final say on the look of the character and the game's main writer, David McKenna. Pacino's contract gave him approval over more than his voice double. "He was very involved in the project," Weber said. Pacino, meanwhile, agreed to allow the developers use of his likeness in the game.
According to the movie database website, "Andre has died a thousand deaths in titles such as Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Destroy All Humans, Spawn and Doom 3." Sogliuzzo, 40, is also a veteran of almost 100 videogames. "He's someone that Al has used in the past, someone who Al trusts, and this guy is a dead ringer for Tony," he added.
"He's the one that actually chose Andre, but Andre was far and away our favourite as well," Weber said. Weber and Radical narrowed down the list to three voice actors before consulting Pacino. He's quite amazing in what he does with that stuff."
"You can just sit here and have a full conversation with him and he's Tony Montana and he nails it. "Andre was probably the only guy that could handle just being Tony," Weber said. "They could all pull off the key lines, like, `Say hello to my little friend.'"īut almost all stumbled when they were asked to be Tony Montana off script. Each one of those who auditioned had an agent saying that my guy is THE Tony Montana impersonator," Weber said from Vancouver. "I think we auditioned about 75 or 80 different potential Tonys. But this time he survives and the gamer plays the Cuban-born crime boss as he tries to put his empire back together and take vengeance on his enemies.Ĭam Weber, executive producer at Radical, says getting the right Tony voice actor was one of the keys to the project, given the 1983 film's loyal following. The game, rated M for mature, starts with the climactic shootout in Tony's mansion from the end of the Scarface film.
Released last October, Radical Entertainment's Scarface has gone on to sell more than a million copies and is still flying off the shelves. Some 10 years after making his screen debut in Al Pacino's Looking for Richard, Andre Sogliuzzo found himself playing Pacino.Īctually, the New York actor won the voice role of Pacino's storied character of Tony Montana in the made-in-Vancouver videogame Scarface: The World Is Yours.