50 Cent: Bulletproof Comments by Kristan Reed

Wow, its like one big bullshit press release!

What I want to see one day:

Eurogamer: First of all, tell us why the world needs a 50 Cent game? What are the motivations behind the project, other than as a means to generate a lot of cash during the busy Christmas period?

PR Bloke: Nope, you've nailed it. Its all about the massive Christmas market. Easy pickings! We know there are loads of stupid 50 Cent fans out there that will buy any old shit.. I mean they buy his fucking music, right? ha ha! I'm getting a Ferrari with my slice of the profits, you know.


Eurogamer: Who came up with the idea in the first place? Did 50 fancy the idea of seeing himself in a game straight away, or was it a case of the various divisions of Universal getting together and realising what could be possible?

PR Asshat: 50 fancied the idea of making a huge amount of money by doing very little work, save going "Take that, bitch!" into a mic at the dev studio.

Fiddy got the game world on lock down, yo! Buck, buck! Innit.

u betta not be a window shopper or fiddy gonna pop you :|

Some say 50 cent is actually gay. Is this true?

I don't understand why games-makers aren't allowed to make games that will make money... it is a business/industry after all :-/

Didn't you feel interviewing someone about THIS game was a waste of your time at any point?

Fiddy? :) Does this mean Sean Combs really wanted to be called 'P Difty'?

Guys... Seriously... I've heard this is actually a good game.

Personally, i'm not interested (References to 'blue-sky' games) but you might want to hold on slagging this off until you see a review...

OH no it's not your typical license some actors and music game like EA has made millions of, no no this is a "mulitmedia experience". 0_o

Oh, Terry Winter. :) Good interview!

How is his armour maxed out in a screenshot where he's not wearing a shirt?

How is his armour maxed out in a screenshot where he's not wearing a shirt?


YES! Continuity rules

What about the NWA game? That'd be cool. With Eazy-E!

"I've realised games that feature black people on this site, always get looked down on"
Have you ever heard of the inferiority complex? Or what about GTA san andreas?


"If it was some rock group no one would be asking stupid questions in stupid interviews"

I dont know that, but i hate the kiss games.

His rock hard abs can stop bullits. Come on, everybody knows that, they're just starying true to the 50 cents experience! ;)

I've realised games that feature black people on this site, always get looked down on

Games featuring cretins are treated with equal prejudice.

Personally myself I think they should have dumped the idea of having "50" as the lead character, and replaced him with Mutya from Sugababes. Most people would agree she's scary enough to probably frightening 'the street' out of 50 with a minute.

"Bulletproof is honestly unique, there is no competition. This is just the most complete 50 cent experience you can have."

Awsome quote, given it is the only 50cent experience you can have in a gaming sense. Kind of like GW Bush saying that "our universities are producing the best educated american students in the world".

Qualified, I don't think it's anything to do with the skin colour of the characters - this looks like another derivative, 'gritty' me-too job, and a celebrity ego-fluffer along with it. People tend to be cynical about those.

There's definitely an issue with ethnicity in games, just as there's an issue with gender, but the problem lies with the developers, publishers and money men - the only black lead characters in games are portrayed as violent criminals, and the only female leads tend to be oversexed, vacant tit-carriages. The latter's much less true of late, but sadly the former's everywhere. Outside of games with create-a-character options, can you imagine a fantasy RPG being released with a black lead character, for example? They never are, and they should be. Someone somewhere doesn't seem to think gamers will accept non-white characters in a starring role. If the only games devs and publishers release with black characters are generic action fodder, it's hardly fair to call the magazines biased for criticising those games.

@ishigo

Wasn't the first question along the lines of what you are suggesting though?

"Eurogamer: Are you relying on the fact that the core audience for this game might not be the most discerning gamers? In other words are you essentially targeting music fans that will get off on the fact that they're playing a real-life gangster rapper, as opposed to gamers?"

That seems pretty pointed to me for an opening question. I mean, there is hard questioning and then there is just being rude. You can't arrange to interview someone and then just act like an ass. I'm sure EG are experienced enough about getting information our of interviewees without insulting them.

This game is a triple-A title...

My sides!!

Spot on karlidog.

6.something on IGN

ie 'unplayable'

/me bows to ishigo. You nailed it on the head with that post!

As for Qualified's statement on black people in games, im sure the remarks would be the same if it was eminem!

If this gets to no.1 we should all just give up.

50 iz da best!!

I dont agree Karlidog

"can you imagine a fantasy RPG being released with a black lead character, for example? They never are, and they should be. Someone somewhere doesn't seem to think gamers will accept non-white characters in a starring role"

What about Diablo II, the cleric was black. And as for Rpg's the reason is that its historicaly wrong to put a black person as the king of england or whatever. In the medieval ages there werent many black people around in europe, if you know what I mean.

Also, you have to consider that the gaming industry is about making money and the majority of the consumers are white, so its kind of natural they try to create caracters that the people who buy the game will easily indentify with.

This has nothing to do with racism, its a business. Indian movies dont have white people, and thats the same thing with japanese movies, chinese and ....


and SIN lead character was a Black guy

A few years back there was a web site you could go visit,in which you could then enter a url and then once it had loaded deface it by using various weaponry.Now what does this have to do with anything?well if there was a something released in which this person was tied to a chair and you could do the same thing to him as the web page,I would buy it.However as it stands this is one situation in which I am not only glad to be old enough know very little about him aside from that he comes across as a cock of the highest order but old enough to be sad to realise that this bloke is considered a role model to a good many.

Fiddy pence says: S'up yall, you go buy my game homies, cause it you don't I'll be round you house with a cap

Ahh, sweet video games; where the harsh world of gang land violence and it's associated morally reprehensible glorification of gun culture can be boiled down to "Kill Combo +250"

I heard a quote from Fiddy on da radio just the other day.

The jist of what he was saying was that even though the game contains dipictions of graphic violence, allows the player to make use of illegal firearms and generally allow you to play a bunch of ganstas doing a bunch of gansta sh1t, that it was perfectly suitable for young johnny to recieve on christmas morning.

In fact, he was also advising to disregard the age rating on the game as it would be fun for everyone to play.

I suppose it is, and maybe always will be, about the bottom line. Say any shit to push your crap onto the public.

The world of Fiddy sounds like plenty of fun, fast cars, firearms and lots of sex... jeez why do we glamourise this sh1t?

Were they reading from a script?

You don't see many people from Norwich in video games...is that prejudice too?

Also, I'm fairly tall...I feel outcast from the gaming world because there aren't enough tall gaming characters...except maybe Godzilla

@ Freek His rock hard abs can stop bullits. Come on, everybody knows that, they're just starying true to the 50 cents experience! ;).
Hahahaha :))).
Seriously I've seen an interview with this guy (1/2 Dollar) in FHM and either he was in delirium tremens or he's got some serious social issues. I will not support him as a role model (or his life-story gam).

I presume, this game being a life-story style thing, that it'll just involve hanging around street corners peddling crack. Then getting shot and being carted off to the ER.
What's that you say, urban hero? Stopping an international conspiracy? Bringing down crime syndicates? Stopping corrupt law enforcement? Oh Fiddy! I had no idea you were so wonderful!

EG's front page has 50 cent and the guy from True Crime both pointing a gun at me.

Talk about perpetuating stereotypes...

Stereotypes of games obviously...

I suspect the only thing that would get this game into my collection would be if 50 Cent himself held me at gunpoint until I bought it.

Blerk... What about a 9/10 review from EG?

Only if they review the PS2 version Carlo :)

I love the fact that IGN have been fellating this game so much in the hype leading up to it. As soon as the game comes out, they give it a piss-poor review. If that's the opinion of a site that was looking forward to the game, imagine what it will be like to the rest of us.

GOTY!!!!

I bet this sells more copies than Shadow of the colossus though.............

Blerk... What about a 9/10 review from EG?

Er... no.

I bet this sells more copies than Shadow of the colossus though...

I feel it would be my God given duty to +25 Destruction every person who pushes the numer of sales of this game above that of Colossus.

That it will hoglumps...

You're about to witness the power...

Don't you love it how they keep ranting on about the fucking music in the game even when they're asked about gameplay elements?

God I hate that whole cancerous fucking business. I hope all rappers become more violent and drug addicted every day so they'll shoot each other and die of overdoses.

Yes, this whole interview was one big press release, despite Eurogamer's efforts.

"I bet this sells more copies than Shadow of the colossus though............."

You made me cry.

"Antoine Molant: Bulletproof proves that music, videos and interactive environments can melt in order to create a truly new experience for the consumer. This could revolutionise the Entertainment industry."

My eyes just fell out.

I hope all rappers become more violent and drug addicted every day so they'll shoot each other and die of overdoses.

I hope that was an Ironic statement? Otherwise its a pretty fucking stupid thing to say............

You made me cry.

Sorry man, it's just I find it frustating that original games like shadow of colossus consistantly get overlooked for formulaic games like this. I mean how many 'urban' games can we endure..........?

Edit: maybe I'll be proved wrong and that SOTC sells well - I can but hope!!

This whole 50 Cent thing is just shitty nonsense. Love the antagonistic questions btw, good job.

Y'know, it'd have been great if this game had actually been fantastic. It'd be interesting to see if the "hardcore" gamers would be able to swallow their pride and admit how good a game based on a mainstream rapper is...

Of course, it was never likely.