Written by: Ian

 

 

 

Hey 50! You want a sub? Yo, 50! Over there! Yo, drop that muther 50! If you play this game, get used to hearing some awesome/awful speech. With one of the G-Unit always following you in this colourful Middle Eastern romp, the banter reaches record levels. But after the first 50 Cent game, Bulletproof, was so awful, can this "50 Cent: Blood On The Sand" give the rapper the success story he craves?

 

 

The story in the game is pretty much the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen. 50’s playing a gig, in full body armour, with live grenades and guns on him (like normal, eh?). He doesn’t get paid in cash, but instead in the form of a diamond encrusted skull. Which promptly gets nicked by a load of terrorists.

 

50, being ‘gangsta’, thinks he needs to get it back off the dirty looters, so he goes on a quest with his other rapper mates to go get it back, by, of course, shooting his way through most of the middle east. Some people may find this offensive, I just found it hilarious that a) 50 thinks he that hard and b) how ludicrous the whole thing was, so actually quite enjoyed it all.

 

 

BotS plays pretty much exactly like Gears of War. It’s a 3^rd person shooter, with a selection of weapons, and the ability to take cover behind just about anything. Like GoW, there’s some driving sections (totally ridiculous and pretty good fun), and you play with a squad. Whilst slightly more vanilla, and with less impressive AI, the game still does a good job at replicating one of this generation’s most successful games, and is therefore half decent from a gameplay perspective too.

 

 

There are some really ludicrous moments too. 50 can slow down time, and can also surround enemies in a red glow. Also, when you smash crates, you get bling, which starts to orbit 50 before he sucks it into his soul. Quite how he has these magic powers, you never really know, but he does, and it just adds to the idiocy! In addition, like The Club, you also get points for completing objectives, getting stylish kills, headshots, and being quick. Generally, the more ‘gangsta’ you are, the better your score, which unlocks more stuff for you.

 

There are some PS3 related gripes though. The game has a mandatory install, which takes about 5 minutes and quite a bit of your HDD space, and then on top of that, there aren’t any trophies in the game, which is pretty poor considering how long that they’ve been around. However, again, the over-the-top nature of everything actually work’s in the games favour as you chuckle your way through.