Last week you read Part 1 of G4’s chat with Vivendi Universal Games' Executive Producer Peter Wanat about the highly anticipated game, Scarface: The World Is Yours. This week we delve even deeper into the game with a focus on the musical aspects.

Based on the Al Pacino film and due out this fall, Scarface: The World Is Yours allows the player to become Tony Montana and live his life as if he didn’t die in the epic shootout at the end of the flick. The gameplay environment recreates the historical time period and locations of the film: Miami, the Florida Keys, and the Bahamas in the early ‘80s. Player-controlled Tony rolls through the crime-ridden streets, seedy back alleys and steamy nightclubs of the Scarface underworld as he tries to rebuild the empire that was snatched away from him at the end of the film. While on your mission, you secure information, negotiate business deals, smuggle contraband, and avoid rivals and DEA. There are even references to the politics, news items and events of the day. Plus, there’s music…plenty of music.

Scarface: The World Is Yours (to be available on PS, PS2, Xbox, and PC) is filled with all sorts of music from the era of the film, as well as some modern day joints to keep the young'uns happy too. We chatted with Peter about how they chose the music and how they straddled the line between what the old school fans expect and what the new school fans want. Read on…

Scarface is such a huge brand name in hip hop. Everyone samples dialogue from it. How will it be marketed to that hip hop crowd?

I don’t think you have to necessarily market it too hard towards the hip hop community. We’ve had so many people line up and try to be in the Scarface game that we’re confident the interest is there in many communities. The bottom line is that the game has appeal to the rap crowd, younger people, older people, fans of the movie, and beyond. So we’ll just market it out there to the public and see who jumps on board.

So it’s like Field of Dreams, if you build it, they will come?

The hip hop community will embrace it. And when they do, they’ll be really pleased. When they pick up the game and realize that they look and sound like Tony Montana. The feel, the moves...we’ve captured that spirit in the game and I think the hip hop community will respond to that.

What about the music? Will it reflect the music of the time or have a hip, updated soundtrack?

We’re gonna have current hip hop tracks in the game and old school songs. The really important thing to know is that we protect the sanctity of the time period, the early 80’s. We start the player with all sorts of music from the time period. But as you play through you can find, unlock, or buy current-day tracks and then put them into the playlist. So the person who’s like, “F*ck hip hop, I don’t like hip hop. I don’t want hip hop in Scarface. There was no hip hop in the original movie, so it shouldn’t be only modern hip hop.” That person can stick with the old school music. You know what? You’re right, and we buy into that. We’re playing to that audience. But why should I penalize the guy who loves hip hop and who found Scarface through hip hop?

Yeah, what’d that guy ever do to you?

So we came up with a compromise where if you hate hip hop, you don’t have to hear it. As a matter of fact, if you hate hip hop, you don’t have to hear any hip hop from that time period either. You could choose any one of the other playlists or make your own mixtape and put every song other than hip hop in it. But if you’re a huge hip hop fan, you’re gonna have period piece music. So you’re gonna have early, early hip hop from the ‘80s and current day hip hop tracks, as well as some other tracks too. So it’s not just hip hop.

But you have the option to go in that direction if that’s what you want.

Yeah, and that was a choice made by Rob Richard from the developer, Radical, who is the sound guy we worked with on all the music and voices that you hear in the game. That really comes back to him and he deserves credit for coming up with a system that really makes everybody happy.

I know I'm happy now, thanks!

Read Part 1 of the Peter Wanat interview here.

Watch Morgan Webb's Scarface: The World is Yours E3 coverage.

Watch the Scarface: The World is Yours party at E3.

Watch footage from Scarface: The World is Yours for PSP.

Watch footage from Scarface: The World is Yours for Xbox.