50 Cent: Blood on the Sand (Xbox 360)

50 Cent in another video game?? Is this one actually good?? Straight to the point, yes it is quite good - but only because it is pretty much exactly the same as a little known game you probably haven't heard of called GEARS OF WAR 2! This game is the same as GOW2, but just in a gangsta format. The story in this game is utterly ridiculous, 'fiddy' gets diamond encrusted skull stolen from him so he decides to crack out his guns and go searching for them... in the middle east. During this he has access to pistols, rocket launchers and a machine-gun mounted hummer. Entirely realistic as you can see... This isn't such a bad thing though, mainly because ...  Read the complete review

I'm probably the least hip person around and that goes double for hip hop. I stopped listening to music the day that the Spice Girls got to number 1 and killed Brit Pop. I have no interest in the recent explosion of the US R&B sound and its move from the harsh gangster feel of yesteryear to a more dance style. For this reason the likes of Ice T, Busta Rhymes and Xzibit are only known to me through their various film and TV roles. The swearing, obsession with violence and disrespect for woman means that I have no desire to listen to any rap album. One rapper that was successful in the recent past was 50 Cent. I would never listen to one of his albums, but offer ...  Read the complete review

I rented Blood on the Sand. I'm not in any way a 50 Cent fan, but I'd heard mutterings that this game wasn't that bad, so I stuck it at the end of my rental list. To my surprise, the mutterings were right. Blood on the Sand is certainly not the best game I've ever played. Not by any stretch of the imagination. It's not very challenging, the story is ropey and shamelessly ego-centric, the AI isn't up to much, and not one of the women featured was not insulted in some manner. But hey, it's a 50 Cent game. What do you expect? On the plus side, it's very fun to play, and I think this game is something of a parody of itself; it knows what it is, and so ...  Read the complete review

Firstly you'll be pleased to know that this is an improvement on the broken piece of crap which 50 Cent put his name on last time around. Blood on the Sand shocked me in that it exceeded my expectations turning out to be a competent third person shooter. The gameplay isn't the most sophisticated i've ever seen but it does the job and the kill counter, which awards higher scores for more consecutive kills, combined with the frequent target kills (which will challenge you to kill a certain amount/type of enemies within a time limit) keep the gameplay fast paced and satisfying. The plot of the game only adds to its appeal with its seemingly ...  Read the complete review