50 Cent: Blood on the Sand Comments by Tom Bramwell

A friend of mine has played it and he told me it was incredibly fun.

Hmm. The echoing silence of the hundreds of naysayers there were on the last 50 Cent comments thread.

Don't you all need to come and say how depressing it must be working for Swordfish on such an inevitably shit game or something?

Drop in co-op is awesome, only on Live though?

I think I'm going to be sick....

All I've heard about this game is that it's actually quite good fun. I'm scared :/

Eurgh..

Swordfish make decent games, like the cricket, liked cold winter (think that was them)

but anything with Fiddy No Talent is an instant non purchase...who shot at him 9 times again? Stevie Wonder?

i got hit in da mowd that's why i spits so commercial...word..

Didn't like the first game, camera angle and controls were awful (IMO).Will need a demo of this before I buy, Will be picking up SFIV on 20th so that will keep me going for a while.

From the sounds of it, it looks like a lot of fun. For me though I cant get past the despicable main character.

I wonder if it will have similar subtle homo-erotic undertones like GOW.

WHEH MAH SKULL

even if this was a 10/10 i wouldn't buy it on general principle for fear of any of my money going towards that twat , 50 pence

Looks... almost incredibly, like it might be a lot of fun, but hopefully nobody will buy it too early on, and I can pick it up for next-to-nothing in some dodgy lo-fi trade in store.

Fiddy is da man dis is gonna be the nutz.

I've played it, it's a very good game. I'd rather have a good game wrapped in a license I don't like rather than a shit game ruining a good license.

i'm surprised, that this could be good. but that's only good news!

if it's more then 50 pence to purchase I won't get it... oh and it must be 11/10. nah. fuck it, I'll buy a can of coke instead

gangster fire...

that shit is OFF the hook!

totally called it

GOTY 2009

"I'd rather have a good game wrapped in a license I don't like rather than a shit game ruining a good license."

This is (unfortunately in this case) quite true.

50p is a fucking cock and I couldn't face the embarrassment of buying this even if it was game of the year material.

If the humor is so rampantly tongue-in-cheek and the game is pretty god, how can you not pick it up? Still waiting on the review before seriously considering a purchase but I'm amazed that this game isn't going to suck.

I still predict that only 50cent fans will buy this game.

I mean honestly if you hate or don't like hip hop I don't see how you could play this, even with the music off you'd still have to stare at 50's smug mug.

i'm amazed that anyone didn't think this would be brilliant from the first trailer, but i guess they were too busy listening to their REAL HIP-HOP which like, totally isn't about bitches and hos and all that shit, man, and also totally isn't made by black people unless it's pre-1988, and, like, aren't the roots so awesome? they totally play their own instruments. man.

50 cent is a brilliant pop culture caricature and therefore an awesome protagonist for a videogame. the fact that this one is actually likely to be good and comes with a sense of self-awareness is merely the icing on the cake.

Even if this game is good it is still bad.

@Grayvern

You think 'fiddy's' mug looks smug? I always think he looks like he's had a stroke, or was slightly brain damaged at birth.

Being over 25 and going to a shop counter with this in hand would be more embarassing than going in your local newsagent and buying a copy of Razzle when an old ladys working at the till and the local vicar is the next in line

gameplay.co.uk will prob do well with it

Brilliant. Can't wait :D

GOTY
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"i'm amazed that anyone didn't think this would be brilliant from the first trailer"

I'd be amazed if anyone over the age of 14 could actually stomach watching the trailer.


"but i guess they were too busy listening to their REAL HIP-HOP which like, totally isn't about bitches and hos and all that shit, man, and also totally isn't made by black people unless it's pre-1988, and, like, aren't the roots so awesome? they totally play their own instruments. man."

If you are suggesting Fiddy is in any way related to hip-hop then you are very very mistaken.


"50 cent is a brilliant pop culture caricature and therefore an awesome protagonist for a videogame."

I may have overestimated your age (or mental age) at 14, or narrowly avoided an irony blast.


"the fact that this one is actually likely to be good and comes with a sense of self-awareness is merely the icing on the cake."

Saving grace, more like.

I hate Fiddy. I hate him with a passion. He's all image and no substance, a completely talentless rapper and a criminal to boot.

Having said that, if the game plays as well as it appears to then I'll buy it, but I'll be thinking of the money going to the developers, not the talentless asshole with the bling.

I have to admit I'm disappointed that this doesn't sound like it will be rubbish.

Nevertheless, even if they were giving them away I wouldn't take one. I would honestly rather play an average game based on a concept I find appealing than the best game in the whole world ever starring 50 Cent.

Haters get the bozack.

"It's not real hiphop". Cry me a fucking river.

"Don't you all need to come and say how depressing it must be working for Swordfish on such an inevitably shit game or something?"

I don't really give a shit. The day Fiddy gets £30 of my money is the day I take out a subscription to the New Fascist and tell everyone how much I enjoyed the Reservoir Dogs game.

GOTY 2009 in the making...

@M_Spitz- What the hells a bozack?
also good counter argument. I see your point. Obviosuly if he's taking all the worse elements of comercialised rap we should ignore that lest someone suggest we are complaining. I'd hate for anyone to think i don't like something...

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, it's ok because we're all being ironic, right, guys?

Will this come with a nice big box that I can put any of my spare big cash in?

Cash in? Big cash in?

If you are suggesting Fiddy is in any way related to hip-hop then you are very very mistaken.

i'm not saying i listen to the guy all the time, but if you don't see how he is a) hip-hop and b) talented you are hopelessly ignorant. heard the 'power of the dollar' EP, or at least the tune 'how to rob an industry nigga' (commonly considered one of the best diss tracks of all time, even by people who hate his later commercial stuff)? the guy has an interesting, original flow if nothing else, and if something else usually gets some great production on a few tunes. you're telling me 'in da club' is anything other than heavy? if you don't like that style of music then fair enough, but to call him talentless is objectively wrong.

this thread just screams cliched nerds feeling threatened.

and yes, the fact that he's a ridiculous caricature makes him a great choice for an action videogame. played gears of war?

Actually, look - I'm serious, this shit gets me really angry. I don't care if, upon the first level, it somehow ties in the gameplay of Braid, Fallout and Little Big Planet with visuals that make me involuntarily cry and it sounds like Beethoven trying to woo me into bed, then has angels in the shape of porn stars descend from the heavens and take it in turns to blow me whilst the others tell me I'm hung like a Trojan horse. Every copy of this game sold gives money to people who are glamorising violence and degredation of women, promoting a life of crime and putting the acquisition of money as worth losing your life for. This would be a better, more respected title if real character development was put into an original IP that justified however surprisingly good this game is meant to be. Yes everyone has to work, yes this is business not morality school, and yes I'm one of the first to jump on anyone getting sanctimonious but I'll feel better if at least I've said it.

i will enjoy this game more because 50 cent is in it, so will many other people. get over yourself.

Can I just clarify:

50 Cent wasn't shot 9 times... He was shot AT 9 times... with a pellet gun... only 3 of the pellets actually hit him, one is lodged in his jaw/gums...

No matter how good, or unintentionally funny this game is, I will not play this game, such is my loathing of Fiddy...

Now put Rage Against The Machine in the middle east, fighting of a certain occupying nation (not the U.S.) might genuinely interest me

@samaran

Then you sir, based purely on your arguments alone, are a mindless twat, with no ability to discern or distinguish gameplay from branding. All the other people you include yourself amongst are no doubt real, and make up what is commonly known as the masses. Daily activities for these people include watching Jeremy Kyle, reading The Sun and holding back advancement of the human race.

Now clean my fucking bins, scumbag.

+1 to schnide

CLASS WAR INFLITRATION ALERT!

@Samaran

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18cc9WkpZZs = decent tune by 'gangster rapper', nothing fiddly has ever done could be considered above 'garbage' level
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5aocYRSh... = proper hip hoppery

lern..innit

*gets coat*

of course i'm not saying 50's as good as biggie, dude! just, he's not talentless either.

schnide, send me a postcard from your fucking high horse.

@samaran:

I don't think he's on his high horse. I think the majority of us are on solid level ground. Some other people however are knee dip in shit looking up ;)

I take you to the candy shop
let you lick my lolly pop
dont stop till you reach the top.


The guys a lyrical genius.

Nah seriously I saw him at reading festival where he got bottled off. The highlight of which was when (after playing some shitty video of him getting shot and working out) someone threw a little plastic chair at him and he held it up going "now this is too far man too far"
What a dick, no way will i be purchasing this game. Even if its the best game ever (which it obviously isnt as its just a silly gears of war with shit music) anyone who i know who buys this game will go down in my estimation.

@samaran

Who said you could finish your community service early?

Now put back on your high vis jacket and get my wheelie bin shining so brightly you can see your grills in it.

Get over yourselves, this game looks fun. The man has made a lot of money; so what? Some people are so blinded by their own stupid principles it's unreal.

@ps3owner
if it's more then 50 pence to purchase I won't get it... oh and it must be 11/10. nah. fuck it, I'll buy a can of coke instead

Woah, woah, woah! You can still get a can of coke for 50p? That's far more interesting than this pile of merchandising by half-a-buck.

@shotgun44:

"so what? Some people are so blinded by their own stupid principles it's unreal. "

It is as well. But then, a lot of games are these days :(