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Well, I could have reviewed this game without putting it in the machine. As it is, I thought I'd give it a fair chance, so took it around to my cousin's house to give it a play together, to which the response was 'You are NOT putting that thing in my poor machine! What if my friends see what I'm playing!'. That pretty much says everything for this game, really.

So you're 50 Cent, a man with no musical talent who managed to get famous by looking scary and being 'real' apparently this means getting shot at six times, and having a few scars. I should also point out at this point that, as soon as you put the game in, it is obvious why he got shot at, as he has a mouth like a sailor who stood on a crab. The blurb on the back begins, 'Play as 50 Cent, the world's biggest hip-hop star'. Biggest being a loosely-used word here. Of course, no-one could argue that he wasn't physically the biggest, being a virtual man-rhino. Is he the richest? Possibly - you will see why in this game (he goes around beating people up until they give him money, apparently). Is he any good as an artist and the best hip-hop artist in the world? No. He has to resort to making computer games of how he goes around shooting people.
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One element of gaming that has really come back to the forefront in recent years, on consoles and PCs, is co-op gaming. The notion of team work, lost in the video game world over the years as Internet multiplayer took over, was originally a very oft-used concept in the mid to late 90s. Now it's back though, with titles like Gears of War one and two, Army of 2, Red Alert 3, Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War 2, Castle Crashers; the list goes on.

With that in mind, my review today is a 3rd person shooter with a heavy co-operative element, 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand. This sequel to 50 Cent: Bulletproof, sees 'Fidy' finishing a tour in the Middle East, only to be paid not in cash like he wanted, but in a diamond encrusted skull. This item is promptly stolen from him in a hectic car chase FMV, and so the setting for the game is made. From then on, you team up with either a human player, or AI controlling a member of G-Unit (chosen from a selection of 3) and your run and gun adventure through dusty cities and military installations begins.
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