50 Cent: Blood on the Sand Comments by Tom Bramwell

@shotgun44

"For herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself."

Principles make me civilised. You can argue this is just about a game and fail to see the bigger picture, but when the world goes to shit and you're complaining about it loudest, you can also know that you're partly responsible for it.

I appreciate this is a very serious tone I'm taking, but this shit does actually matter. By endorsing this game you're justifying some fat executive's paycheck who, about a year or so ago, sat there saying "look, make any old shit you like but put the 50 Cent license on it, because some people out there will then buy it regardless and we can buy ourselves another Merc."

Who do you think those people are he was talking about?

Now, seriously - clean my fucking bins.

yo i totally appreciate that people have principles worth sticking to, i have many of my own and wouldn't trust anyone who didn't. 'i don't like scary black music', however, is not really a principle.

i'm not a big 50 cent fan - presumably, neither are many of the developers working on this game - yet, somehow, it still looks like great fun to me and the staff of this fine website. do you not think it might be reaching for a slightly broader audience? i really don't think the game is intended to be taken seriously by anyone, let alone people that aren't 50 cent fans.

I love hip-hop, hate fiddy. The two really are not connected.

The game might be loads of fun, but it's bullshit politics are not.

Also, as I'm not an obese 14 year old racist Texan teenager, there's nothing for me here.

'i don't like scary black music', however, is not really a principle.

WTF. How isn't it? Cradle of Filth are shite.

I've got some better titles for this upcoming verisimilitude of pure gaming nirvana:

Chump Change: Blood on the Shelves
17 Pence: Flid in the Attic
50 Cent: How much talent can i buy with that?

@schnide

Fair enough - 50's a cock who regularly releases nonsense poor standard pop/rap/r'n'b records - but I'm sorry - you'd be severely limited in how you spend your money, and where you invest it if you're avoiding funding the hate list that you stated in your post.

Avoid putting your money in the bank, buying fuel, going to the cinema or buying DVDs, or buying any music from the major labels - I'd say.

Plenty of violence funded and glamourised, women degraded and ex. criminals given honest livings via things such as these that we purchase on a regular basis. This and much worse besides.

50 is a twat, though - so I don't blame you for not buying his game.


@Azazel

:D

I'll prolly buy it just to bug the old-set-in-ways crew on here......like Saints Row2 bugs IV lovers!

'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'

coca cola have already paid fiddy 120+million for vitamin water deal - i don't think he needs your money some how.

Oh dear, have developers really run out of gaming ideas?

Now they have to ask "too wealthy for no talent" people to put their face on games so idiots (unfortunately there are too many of them) will buy this game.

*sigh*

This shit actually looks and sounds kinda good. Im exctremely amazed and surprised.. wow. Feels like I somehow hope it wont be good cause I might just freak out if it's as good as it starts to be promising. Dunno.. Just weird lol

50 Cent does pop urban. A wonderful product of marketing and PR.

This game would be improved with the following tweaks:

1. The ability to shoot our own 50 Cent character in the face. Preferably with an assault rifle. A video editor with the ability to pause, rewind and watch again in slo-mo from different angles, would be stupendous in this regard. Would easily trump the Fallout 3 VATS system any day.

2. A crossdressing option for our character. Press RB, Fiddy’s wrists go slack. Hit Left Trigger, and he starts cracking onto dirty foreign men.

3. Some sort of cribs mini-game. Win at this, and Fiddy is forced to move into modest accomodation with tasteful, understated furnishings.

Developers: if you're reading this, feel free to use any of these ideas in your first patch.

Tasteful is one word fiddy' don't know

"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"
I totally agree with Andromeda, nice one!

@schnide

So you think someone who empties your bin and earns a honest living is equal to someone who as built is career on the back of a life of crime ie 50cent ???

if the answer is yes then that said bin man will still have a job when the credit crunch as well and truly fucked your company over and dumped you at the end of a dole que looking down your nose signing on .

TBH i should have just called you a cunt and left

Interesting debate. Who would have though that the game would have been any good in the first place? Now it seems as though people are not going to buy this out of principle, as opposed to it being a shit game. Is this a first?

I've got to admit, I had no interest in this whatsoever. Now I'm interested in the final reviews. See what Edge, games TM and EG make of it. Don't think I'd ever buy this kind of game though. Regardless if it swept the boards with 9 and 10s.

But 20th is Street Fighter 4 day and I'd rather put the money to those spiffy looking fighting sticks. 50p may think he's tough, but Ken would open up a can of whoop ass on him.

"Now it seems as though people are not going to buy this out of principle, as opposed to it being a shit game. Is this a first?"


No

@local_celebrity

glol

Must admit im surprised this is any good. Based on the last game it was a fair assumption to make that this would be terrible.

Personally I won't be getting it, don't like 50 cent, don't like hip-hop and not a huge fan of 3rd person action games so it has to be really really good and really appeal to me before I'll pick it up anyway

This looks to be the new Def Jam : Fight for New York (hip-hop gaming surprise). If it plays well then I'll grab it and have fun playing through with a friend.

I'm not even slightly a fan of 50 cent but having the whole game play out like a tongue in cheek war through iraq with a bunch of wannabe gangster rappers is just fucking hilarious, and if you think about it, more original than most run and gun shooters can come up with these days.

@Ryze

Thanks, but I'm ahead of you on that. My money is in the Co-op, so that HSBC can't invest it in wars in third world countries. Yes people, it does do that. I don't buy Coca Cola, which is responsible for draining villages in India of clean drinking water. I don't buy Nestle products because of what they do in Africa with baby milk. I don't buy Walkers crisps because they gave money to Bush's re-election campaign. Not news to you? To some it might be, and hopefully to a few it'll be enough to make them think about what they do. You can't stop every bad company in the world this way, but if the worst ones stopped making a profit, the others would have incentive to improve. Unfortunately most people don't think like this, so this is not the way the world works, but at least I'm not contributing to it and I won't contribute to this game either.

I've yet to see this so called humour. Doing something unpleasant in a game without some sort of wit involved (like local_celeb's suggestions) isn't humour , or ironic, it's just pandering to the fat b*stard's ego and puerile gangsta wannabes fantasies. Putting a real person's name on it (if you can call fiddy "real") makes it bad taste - it does make a difference.

Can't see Killzone or Riddick being bothered by this.

10/10 for 50 Cent game on the cards? Probably.

(I'm not actually joking either... )

@Simonsays

So you think someone who empties your bin and earns a honest living is equal to someone who as built is career on the back of a life of crime ie 50cent ???

That's not what I said.

If you have a love of other people's rubbish and/or value the public service that such a role provides then good luck to you and I commend you for it. If you do it because you had no desire to qualify yourself for anything other than having two arms, then you deserve all the derision I've given.

Either way, I take your point. A lot of the people who complain about foreigners 'coming over here' are the same people who won't work for those wages in the first place when those foreign workers will.

And, incidentally, bin men earn a pretty good wage.

50Cent is a lot of things - but pretty he aint. He looks like some kind of neanderthal imo. Good physique though - but not quite as good as mine.

I'll have you know that Lewis Hamilton's favourite bands are 50 Cent and 2 Pac

With this and Riddick it looks like a good year for OTT manly grunting loud violence-fests.

And those cussing Fiddy are clearly busters who just ain't krunk enough to hang ghetto style.

Even if it was amazing... I still wouldn't buy a game about some idiot.