![]() ![]() ![]() The cutscenes are slick and sharp, with decent facial animation and lip-syncing, and most of this follows through into the game itself. ![]() It all looks surprisingly good, in no small part thanks to the Unreal 3 Engine. Of course, that’s not as easy as it seems and every identikit bad guy in the unspecified nation is keen on getting in his way. Some trick-ass fool, you see, stole Fiddy’s pay for the last show in his Middle Eastern tour, and he wants it back. So, as 50 Cent, you run around a random bombed-out Middle Eastern country, shooting random Middle Eastern gentlemen with a variety of guns and with a member of G-Unit by your side. It doesn’t help that these elements haven’t been translated perfectly and don’t work quite as well as they should. Gears of War, conversely, was a game where you cowered behind rocks and popped out temporarily to shoot at people. The Club was a fast-paced shooter focused on keeping your kill-combo high and pulling off impressive shots to boost your score. Take the scoring system and waves of enemies from The Club, add in the cover system, AI helper, and slow-walking conversations from Gears of War, and then lump in bullet time (annoyingly titled Gangsta Time) and you have BotS.Īstute readers will have already noticed that two of these ideas don’t really work well together. It’s not as though borrowing ideas is anything new in the games industry, but 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand doesn’t really have many new ones of its own, except for the peculiar combination. While he was there, however, it appears as though he stole just about everything of note from last year’s sleeper hit The Club and put it all into his own game. It was a popular rap, and you’ve probably heard it. ![]()
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