10 TERRIBLE Video Games (You Should Play Anyway)
4. 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand
50 Cent: Bulletproof was an absolute travesty of an action title that not only did nothing we hadn’t seen before but it barely got the essentials correct either. So how exactly Mr Curtis Jackson got a sequel is beyond belief.
50 Cent: Blood on the Sand is again an almost completely generic affair that uses all the most popular tricks in gaming of the time; vehicular combat, a tonne of guns, chest-high walls and, of course, slow motion bullet-time action. Its storyline was no less shallow than its gameplay either, essentially boiling down to “that bitch has got my money”. Charming.
The most offensive thing about Blood on the Sand however? It’s actually rather fun.
It’s pompous and stupid but there is joy to be had in the ridiculousness of playing as 50 Cent slow-mo mowing down terrorists in the Middle East. These kinds of cover-based shooters were a dime a dozen for a long time, but only one of them allows you to activate "Gangsta Fire", team with the G-Unit and listen to original music that 50 Cent had written just for the game.
Oh, it did do one thing unique: you can get extra points from taunting your opponents with profanity after they die and these can be traded in for new swear-words. You know what, I take it all back, this is a sure-fire 10/10.