Psh. Fiddy ain't sharing no Diamond Skull with no one. He ain't killin' a bunch o' foos just to have to split the prize with someone else. What good is half a Diamond Skull? Might as well make an ashtray outta it.
Also, the game apparently has a cuss button. There's a fantastic use of a license if I've ever seen one.
Not only that, but you get bonus points for using it after killing someone.
GAME
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Fixed.
Also, fuck you guys for making me want this game.
Seriously, fuck you guys. This game has been the butt of so many jokes for so many months, and now people are turning around and saying it's actually worth buying? Christ, even Tycho is enjoying it. It doesn't seem like a Tycho game. But there you are!
Apparently cuss buttons unite people. And really, how could they not?
You do realise that this is a game about a misogynistic Rapper in the middle east killing terrorists to get back a bloody crystal skull he was promised in order to pay for a concert and its a sequel to a game that was awful. There was about as much chance of this being a quality game as Shaq-fu
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You do realise that this is a game about a misogynistic Rapper in the middle east killing terrorists to get back a bloody crystal skull he was promised in order to pay for a concert and its a sequel to a game that was awful. There was about as much chance of this being a quality game as Shaq-fu
You shut your filthy mouth! Shaq-fu was a masterpiece!
So I played this, and it's pretty good. Kind of short, but fun while it lasts.
If you want to improve on the experience, join someone in co-op and play as Yayo, use the taunt button liberally, and play Thoughts of a Predicate Felon off your 360 as an alternate soundtrack.
Seriously, what would you rather play while laying waste to a city full of mercenaries? Disco Inferno, or Live By The Gun?
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"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." - Bertolt Brecht
You do realise that this is a game about a misogynistic Rapper in the middle east killing terrorists to get back a bloody crystal skull he was promised in order to pay for a concert and its a sequel to a game that was awful. There was about as much chance of this being a quality game as Shaq-fu
You shut your filthy mouth! Shaq-fu was a masterpiece!
Shaq-Fu had pretty phenomenal animation, especially for the time. The gameplay was only average. But it was as spectacularly bad as everyone made it out to be. It looks like Blood in the Sand is going to be remembered in a similar fashion (i.e. a decent licensed game with a terrible repuation)
So, did you play this game? You're one of the very few, then.
Better reviews don't seem to be helping 50 Cent's newest video game.
Despite earning higher review scores than 2005's 50 Cent Bulletproof, February's Blood on the Sand has sold an estimated 56,000 copies in the U.S. between its February launch and early April.
Its predecessor did far better.
In its first two months of release in the fall of 2005, Bulletproof sold 681,000 copies, en route to life-to-date sales of 1,123,000 units, according to NPD.
The original game had a Metacritic score of 47; the new game has a 71 and has been described as a guilty pleasure on some of the top gaming podcasts and review sites.
It was obvious that something was wrong with Blood on the Sand's sales when THQ failed to hype the game's performance in its earnings report earlier this week.
50 Cent may not be as popular as he was in the middle of the decade, but he's by no means faded to obscurity. A drop-off this steep outpaces even the decline in the rapper's recent album sales. His 2005 album The Massacre sold 1.14 million copies in its first week, according to SoundScan, the group that tracks music sales in the U.S.. His 2007 follow-up, Curtis, sold 691,000 units in its first week, a big decline, but not a calamity.
There were stark differences between the two games. Bulletproof came out in the fall season and put 50 in an urban setting that was supposed to be inspired by what he raps about. Blood on the Sand was out in the winter and was more exotic, transporting 50 to a pseudo-Iraq where he needed to reclaim a stolen jeweled skull. Both games were released against tough competition.
How does a game considered by critics to be better than its predecessor and starring a celebrity fail to pull in bigger numbers?
One must at least look back to publisher Activision's decision to unload Blood on the Sand following its merger with Vivendi, the original publisher for the game. If Activision recognized some fatal flaw in Blood on the Sand, back then, fans of the other former Vivendi games let go by Activision – Ghostbusters, Brutal Legend , Wet— better hope Activision wasn't right about them as well.
THQ did not respond to Kotaku's request for comment about the performance of Blood on the Sand by press time.
yeah, but it almost sounds like the game's performance could very well be tightly correlated to this 'Fifty Cents' character. and, doesn't sound like he is quite as popular.
They may have been better off releasing it without the celebrity tie-in.
You mean a sequel to a shitty game didn't do as well as it's predecessor? Shocking!
Seriously though, I feel slightly bad about for the developer. It seemed like they genuinely tried harder to improve the game. At the very least they seemed willing to go way WAY left field with it.
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Yeah, just searched and everywhere seems to be saying that as well.
What the fucking shit, isn't this using the Unreal 3 engine? You know, the one that powered Gears of War? What's their excuse for cutting splitscreen?
Fuck you developers. Fuuuuuuuuuuck you. :x
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Especially if it had, say, the voice of an older gentlemen with an English accent saying these things out of Fiddy's head.
Seriously, fuck you guys. This game has been the butt of so many jokes for so many months, and now people are turning around and saying it's actually worth buying? Christ, even Tycho is enjoying it. It doesn't seem like a Tycho game. But there you are!
Apparently cuss buttons unite people. And really, how could they not?
That's pretty cute.
Tell me more.
I never asked for this!
He was promised US$10-million in cash... Now, fiddy is a lot of things... But never let it be said that he refuses cold hard cash.
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You shut your filthy mouth! Shaq-fu was a masterpiece!
If you want to improve on the experience, join someone in co-op and play as Yayo, use the taunt button liberally, and play Thoughts of a Predicate Felon off your 360 as an alternate soundtrack.
Seriously, what would you rather play while laying waste to a city full of mercenaries? Disco Inferno, or Live By The Gun?
http://kotaku.com/5245761/50-cents-new-game-selling-112th-of-his-first-one
They may have been better off releasing it without the celebrity tie-in.
I like that idea.
Seriously though, I feel slightly bad about for the developer. It seemed like they genuinely tried harder to improve the game. At the very least they seemed willing to go way WAY left field with it.
@gamefacts - Totally and utterly true gaming facts on the regular!