10 Video Games We Love BECAUSE They're Fun Trash

6. 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand (Xbox 360, PS3)

Deadly premonition
THQ

I’m quite open-minded when it comes to music, but Fiddy’s craft never really resonated with me. Maybe you have to have grown up on the mean American streets like the big man, to truly appreciate it.

Or maybe you need to have your crystal skull stolen by middle-eastern terrorists and go through a ten-hour explosive action-adventure with your homies to retrieve it from the clutches of evil... you know, one of the two.

The surprising thing about Fifty Pence/Fuppence (as he’s known here in the UK) is that his game, Blood On The Sand, is actually surprisingly fun, a Gears of War clone with some meat on its bones. Though, like Centaur’s music, it doesn’t revolutionise the genre it’s from, but it does a great job of ticking all the boxes and giving fans a good time in the process.

The best bit is that the game doesn’t take itself seriously at all, which isn’t what I was expecting (from the cover, old 2-For-A-Quid looks pretty serious), so when the game just kept escalating in ridiculousness right until the final big dumb battle (complete with actual voice-acted quips from the man himself) I found myself humming In Da Club without missing a beat.

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Hiya, you lot! I'm Tommy, a 39-year-old game developer from Scotland - I live on the East coast in an adorable beachside village. I've worked on Need for Speed, Cake Bash, Tom Clancy's The Division, Driver San Francisco, Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise, Kameo 2 and much more. I enjoy a pun and, of course, suffer fools gladly! Join me on Twitter at @TotoMimoTweets for more opinion diarrhoea.