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New 50 Cent Trailer: Still Amazing
Posted by Luke Plunkett at 1:40 PM on July 8, 2008
As you're already aware, the story/excuse behind putting 50 Cent in the desert with a bunch of guns is great. Amazing, even. Know what's greater and even more amazing? This trailer.

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dantemustdie
Posted 2:28 PM 8/7/08
@chorx:
Thanks. You almost made me spit out my drink onto my keyboard.
However, crisis adverted.
True story!
dantemustdie
Pornosaur
Posted 2:28 PM 8/7/08
Thought it looked pretty fun myself, but then again John Woo couldn't pull it off with his Hardboiled sequel game. I could just imagine the pit of hell that would be xbox live voice chat on multiplayer though.
Pornosaur
DannKnee
Posted 2:27 PM 8/7/08
Why does this remind me of Call Of Duty 4? Except with crappy gameplay and even crappier music...
DannKnee
okenny :)
Posted 2:27 PM 8/7/08
Now THATS how you make a game...
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...suck :(
okenny :)
KaneBaker
Posted 2:25 PM 8/7/08
It feel like watch a SNL commercial. The theatrical voice over just ads to the comedy. Than again, if plumbers can be heroes that fight mutated humanoid turtles, than rappers can be an army of one.
Next up,
Call of Duty: Fiddy's War
KaneBaker
Hauler
Posted 2:24 PM 8/7/08
The best part of that trailer was the Don Lafontaine voice over.
Hauler
PITwelve
Posted 2:24 PM 8/7/08
50Cent and amazing just doesn`t sound right when used in the same sentence.
PITwelve
Murgatron
Posted 2:23 PM 8/7/08
Some of the sarcasm here is becoming difficult to identify :D
@Smash88: RAP, ACTION, VIDEO GAMES, and 50 CENT mix to form a homogeneous solution, thank you very much.
Murgatron
wild homes gets retconned!
Posted 2:18 PM 8/7/08
@lenandude: Yeah, I thought it had, but I couldn't remember, so I threw it in there. Thanks for clarifying that for me. Cheers!
wild homes gets retconned!
y2julio
Posted 2:17 PM 8/7/08
I'm not sure if I'm the only one that noticed but whats up with the Nazi SS Totenkopf skull during the hand to hand combat?
y2julio
Vampstar13
Posted 2:17 PM 8/7/08
That was AMAZING...ly BAD!!! Seriously though, I wonder how much the voice over guy got paid to do this, without laughing mid-sentence.
Vampstar13
Deft_One
Posted 2:17 PM 8/7/08
Haha, I'm sold.
Honestly, if I made a game, it'd be exactly the fucking same.
Except mine would have bears...with GUNS.
Deft_One
IntelSilver
Posted 2:17 PM 8/7/08
Is this a joke? I seriously think it looks horrible.
IntelSilver
Smash88
Posted 2:14 PM 8/7/08
LOL - They even got the movie trailer guy to do this trailers "low voice". This is hilarious. Honestly, who buys this...looks like there will be Co-Op, something like Army of Two. Oh GOD, apparently violence still goes after him, who thinks of this. I'm sorry, but RAP, ACTION, VIDEO GAMES, 50 CENT, do not mix.
Smash88
Chances
Posted 2:13 PM 8/7/08
On the one hand - I don't know why - I like the idea of a rap celebrity being so damn famous and bankable he can put out video games as vanity projects.
On the other hand, that trailer made me want to throw up a little. Ohhh Movie Trailer Voiceover Guy... you're a whore.
Chances
TheCleaningGuy
Posted 2:12 PM 8/7/08
@ a bunch of people: The "amazing" is sarcastic amazing.
This trailer was amazing but I still think that the story is amazing-er.
TheCleaningGuy
Jayl3w
Posted 2:12 PM 8/7/08
Ugh... UGH!
Just because 50 Cent can make a game, doesn't mean he should. Even some of my more 'ghetto' friends were appalled by the first one (though, if I remember straight they used the technical term 'wack as shit, yo'), I don't even want to imagine the horrors we'll be seeing.
Please, please let all the data and work on this fall conveniently into an incinerator...
Jayl3w
kylo4
Posted 2:10 PM 8/7/08
I'll buy it for $20 or $30 when the price drops. It looks decent enough and the graphics are good. Plus, Bulletproof was a guilty pleasure of mine.
kylo4
Diesel_Power
Posted 2:07 PM 8/7/08
That's how we Doooooooooooooooooooooo!
Diesel_Power
Zootalor
Posted 2:07 PM 8/7/08
It looks like "Gears Of Rapstar"
Zootalor
sir_carrot
Posted 2:07 PM 8/7/08
Do I detect... sarcasm?
sir_carrot
lenandude
Posted 2:07 PM 8/7/08
@wild homes gets retconned!: Prototype got delayed until 2009.
lenandude
p0rksta
Posted 2:06 PM 8/7/08
this trailer was worse than getting rick roll'd.
p0rksta
slyzxx786
Posted 2:05 PM 8/7/08
OMG OG`s are gonna save the world, forget trained soldiers we got street soldiers damn were saved. Seriously what the heck ? he should stick to music i don`t like when rappers/actors come into games its just stupid i tolerated it with gta vice city that was it.
slyzxx786
lenandude
Posted 2:04 PM 8/7/08
Really good graphics. Not buying it, though. I've got too many games to buy already.
lenandude
wild homes gets retconned!
Posted 2:04 PM 8/7/08
@Xenigma: I know it might sound and look stupid, but Bulletproof sold very, very well. I'm not at all surprised they're releasing this. I doubt this will do as well as the previous game, just because there's a lot of traffic in the third-person action-ish genre this year with Mercenaries 2, GTA IV, Prototype, Saint's Row 2 and more, but I think this will still do OK. It's a fun, if absolutely ridiculous concept, and the character models look realistic-ish (say hello to the uncanny valley) and I'm sure the voice talent will lend the game a feeling of goof-off good times. I think this will sell a half-million units for them.
wild homes gets retconned!
Jsplisim
Posted 2:04 PM 8/7/08
They need to just tap and make this game a parody...
Jsplisim
pewpewlazer
Posted 2:03 PM 8/7/08
Lol this is one of those games that's so ridiculous it's awesome.
Come on Kotaku boys, if we switched 50 cent out for a buff broad shouldered football player and terrorists with aliens you'd be so into it.
pewpewlazer
slomo788
Posted 2:03 PM 8/7/08
@smuckersisgood: You're so right. I just reviewed the plot in the earlier article. I'm still laughing as I'm typing this. But the graphics do look sharp though. At least they caught up with 2007, unlike say, Haze.
slomo788
Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.
Posted 2:02 PM 8/7/08
Its amazing how idiotic this douche continues to be.
Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.
Bodybag
Posted 2:01 PM 8/7/08
I find that game offensive and racist. How come all black people are portrayed as "bling bling" chasing, gun totting, pant sagging savages? For shame, for shame.
Bodybag
skittlzncombos
Posted 2:00 PM 8/7/08
@chorx: If I had the resources, I'd make a game about getting jumped too. A trilogy even!
skittlzncombos
Solertia
Posted 2:00 PM 8/7/08
@Cyanotic: Revolution X was the shit. No really, it was just shit.
Solertia
Chaoticevl
Posted 2:00 PM 8/7/08
The only way I'd be willing to shell out any money on this games is if 50 cent dies in game in kills him in reality.
Chaoticevl
HamThePharoah
Posted 1:59 PM 8/7/08
To be honest, this game looks awesome. Definitely considering buying it :D
HamThePharoah
chorx
Posted 1:59 PM 8/7/08
I just cannot get over the fact that this is how he portrays what happened to him in africa at that show. For those of you who don't know, he got jumped in africa at a concert and they stole his chain and I guess they chased the guy down and got his chain back.
chorx
Cyanotic
Posted 1:58 PM 8/7/08
50 Cent and Aerosmith: both have two games dedicated to them, and all four games blow.
Cyanotic
skittlzncombos
Posted 1:58 PM 8/7/08
I'll have to play it and die over and over again, just so 50 dies over and over. Almost as good as real life. Except, he wont actually die.
skittlzncombos
chorx
Posted 1:55 PM 8/7/08
@Koontz: doesn't that alone justify $60? Honestly this is going to be my best game purchase all year, no game will ever provide as many laughs as this will.
chorx
Dead Air ummm Dead Air
Posted 1:55 PM 8/7/08
[www.sadtrombone.com]
Dead Air ummm Dead Air
sladee
Posted 1:55 PM 8/7/08
Is that what 50 cent does in real life, i kid :p.
sladee
LittleBigPlaneteer
Posted 1:54 PM 8/7/08
Damn that trailer was so good I'm considering renting the game now!
LittleBigPlaneteer
smuckersisgood
Posted 1:54 PM 8/7/08
@slomo788: You know, i think your expectations are pretty high for a fiddy cent game. just sayin.
smuckersisgood
Marion517
Posted 1:54 PM 8/7/08
Think I'll be able to get a pre-order still?
Marion517
DevonTheDude
Posted 1:54 PM 8/7/08
whats so great about the trailer, it looks like a run of the mill shooter kinda like stranglehold
DevonTheDude
Xenigma
Posted 1:54 PM 8/7/08
Yes, amazing is one word for it. I'm amazed 50's trying it again, but it's his money, not mine.
Xenigma
Kraftwerker
Posted 1:54 PM 8/7/08
Wow. looks better then Mercenaries 2.
Kraftwerker
Zamzoph
Posted 1:53 PM 8/7/08
"Now he must play by a new set of rules."
Huh... Looks like he's playing by the same rules he always played by.
Zamzoph
Koontz
Posted 1:53 PM 8/7/08
"Yeah seven seven thirty, I'm ridin' dirty."
Koontz
smuckersisgood
Posted 1:53 PM 8/7/08
Christ, this is so fuckin ridiculous, but in a good way.
smuckersisgood
slomo788
Posted 1:52 PM 8/7/08
The characters still need to shake off that plastic look. And the environment is "too clean." Not enough particle effects and stuff (can't these guys learn anything from CoD4 and MGS4?). Sorry Sierra, take it back to the oven. You will need to do more than this to make people not think about a 50 Cent game as a reason to puke. And those vehicles better be controllable or you might just keep the game in your asses.
slomo788
shichi
Posted 1:51 PM 8/7/08
still amazing? i'm still not interested
shichi
everybest
Posted 1:51 PM 8/7/08
Wow. This is going to be like a fantasy world for me.
everybest
TOWER_JUNKIE
Posted 1:51 PM 8/7/08
Win.
TOWER_JUNKIE
chorx
Posted 1:50 PM 8/7/08
I'm SERIOUSLY buying this game though.
chorx
chorx
Posted 1:50 PM 8/7/08
I'm buying the CE, it comes with a colt .45 and a 40
chorx
bighit006
Posted 1:50 PM 8/7/08
*breathes in* Bahahahahahaha if anyone buys this....
bighit006
DukeOfPwn
Posted 1:49 PM 8/7/08
He's no US soldier...
He's a soldier in the G-Unit posse!
DukeOfPwn
KennyLanzJr
Posted 1:48 PM 8/7/08
yo dis gon beez da GOTY, fo sho
KennyLanzJr
Detre
Posted 1:48 PM 8/7/08
Hell yeah in the streets your mouth doesnt even have to move when you talk. Thats how we roll nah meen.
Detre
Dead Air ummm Dead Air
Posted 1:46 PM 8/7/08
"I'll stop dose teruhrists....or die tryin'"
-Air Marshall Fifty Cent
Dead Air ummm Dead Air
Br00klyn-Grenade
Posted 1:46 PM 8/7/08
Lol, LAWL!
Br00klyn-Grenade
Amazon_Chris
Posted 1:46 PM 8/7/08
Pass. 50 Cent game = AUTO FAIL.
Amazon_Chris
LegendK1ll3r
Posted 1:45 PM 8/7/08
This game looks so amazing, even though it has no right to be.
LegendK1ll3r
mikeevd
Posted 1:45 PM 8/7/08
lol hilarious. I don't know why it's funny but it is. The potential for a 50 cent game getting more than decent revies is chuckle worthy.
mikeevd
Coquiton
Posted 1:45 PM 8/7/08
GOTY right here.
I mean, seriously, Halo and MGS don't stand a chance.
Coquiton
goldwings
Posted 1:45 PM 8/7/08
Can anyone say EPIC(less).
I still cannot believe the plot for this, but I guess that's what makes it...unique?
goldwings
Orionsaint
Posted 1:45 PM 8/7/08
OMG is that the Unreal engine? Fantastic! Is that the trailer guy, "In a world. Where bad games exist."
Orionsaint
dropoff
Posted 1:45 PM 8/7/08
50 has no business flying around on a gunship but the game does like nice.
dropoff
Bluejuan85
Posted 1:44 PM 8/7/08
It may look amazing but it doesn't affect me at all since I am not interested.
Bluejuan85
Terance!
Posted 3:16 PM 8/7/08
Wow, racism in the topic. How cute.
@108
Asking people to nominate you is pretty sad, sorry ;(
Terance!
HateFate
Posted 3:16 PM 8/7/08
I can't wait for this to get stomped by Kanye's game.
HateFate
108
Posted 3:12 PM 8/7/08
@108: nominate me for comment of the week and i'll paypal you a dollar
seriously
108
108
Posted 3:12 PM 8/7/08
"THE STREETS TAUGHT HIM HOW TO SURVIVE
GOD TAUGHT HIM HOW TO PUNCH A GUY AND IMMEDIATELY SAY "HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW?" -- WITHOUT MOVING HIS MOUTH
THIS NOVEMBER, FIFTY CENT WILL DISCARD CLIPS FROM TWO PISTOLS WITH HIS ARMS STRETCHED OUT AS WIDE AS POSSIBLE, WHILE STANDING WITH HIS BACK TO A VERY SKINNY PIECE OF COVER, EXPOSING HIS TRICEPS TO SWEET, HOT GUNFIRE"
Alternate comment: Still think this idea is hilarious! Still think it's the modern-day equivalent of a 1950s Elvisploitation film!
Alternate alternate comment: At least no one can accuse these guys of not using in-game footage!
108
Mact
Posted 3:08 PM 8/7/08
Kotaku, you may want to watch out for your sarcastic reactions.
The last thing we need is someone buying this game because they were encouraged by a misquotation that a marketing person rips from the site.
And I say that because the world should not have to endure a third title.
Mact
SilentAssassn87
Posted 3:06 PM 8/7/08
This games is an example of the concept that if you spend $5 million dollars on [insert useless object here], it will look fantastic, but at it's core, it will still be a [repeat useless object here]. The game LOOKS great, but the idea of a rapper having amazing skills in fire arms and combat it just a bit...out there. Shooting a gun sideways isn't some magical tactic : /.
SilentAssassn87
MURDERFACE
Posted 3:00 PM 8/7/08
50 cent & Amazing
Two things that should never be in a sentence together EVER.
Why the fuck are they even making another one of these abortions?
Someone please call God on the big red phone and tell him to fire-up the Armageddon machine i want the world to end now.
MURDERFACE
JUFONUK
Posted 2:56 PM 8/7/08
@Crabfeast: why not make weekend at bernies lemmings style? using the premise from Bernies 2
that could be original and a Wii ware gold
JUFONUK
kevinl
Posted 2:56 PM 8/7/08
hahahaha. i can't believe the game looks good. the premise is completely ridiculous but the game looks like it would be a sweet shooter.
kevinl
The_Catalpa
Posted 2:55 PM 8/7/08
@y2julio: I got curious and checked out the higher resolution video. Here, for anyone interested, is a side-by-side comparison of "Fiddy's" skulls and the SS Totenkopf one I mashed up.
[img146.imageshack.us]
Not exactly the same, but kind of uncomfortable nonetheless. What do you guys think?
The_Catalpa
Crabfeast
Posted 2:50 PM 8/7/08
@Zodduska:
Sarcasm aside, if I was one of the devs making this game, I think I'd be having a lot of fun doing it. I hope devs aren't so self important that when they make games like Halo or Metal Gear, they aren't thinking to themselves "this is more than a game. This is serious stuff."
I think people sometimes forget that games are games, and not all are meant to be works of art. Some of them are ridiculous... in a good way, like this one. There's been worse shovelware out there, and this looks much more appealing than Petz IV.
Crabfeast
ShaggE
Posted 2:48 PM 8/7/08
I never thought I'd say this.....
But, it looks worth a rental. A fun, mindless shooter. On the other hand, a game full of 50 Cent music sounds like hell in game form.
ShaggE
Alex_Mexico
Posted 2:43 PM 8/7/08
There's a million game ideas still inside the inker waiting to be made.... and 50 cent not only got one game but its getting a SECOND ONE? Worst part is... 50 cent 1 actually sold 1 millioN!?!?!?
THIS.... is the way the world ends.....
Alex_Mexico
Crabfeast
Posted 2:40 PM 8/7/08
The plot alone makes this game amazing.
Would you rather play the same old pew pew space alien/WWII game... or a game where 50 cent plays a rap concert in the middle east, gets paid in a skull diamond, gets said diamond stolen, and then seek vengeance on some fools.
You people want originality, and then when it comes, it's not good enough?!?
Crabfeast
jfx316
Posted 2:40 PM 8/7/08
@Dead Air ummm Dead Air: the boondocks rules.
how is Fiddy still famous? his last record bricked hardcore.
jfx316
y2julio
Posted 2:39 PM 8/7/08
@The_Catalpa: I hope that's the case. Maybe Kotaku should send the Devs a heads up, cause that won't be good to have in anything.
y2julio
Krytha
Posted 2:39 PM 8/7/08
What happened to the crystal skull? There was a crystal skull wasn't there?
Krytha
ThisCharmingMan
Posted 2:39 PM 8/7/08
@Zodduska: I was just thinking about some guy who just gets a job at Sierra...and gets to work on the 50 cent game. He must be THRILLED.
ThisCharmingMan
Zodduska
Posted 2:37 PM 8/7/08
I kinda feel sorry for the dev team that had to work on this..
Zodduska
CarbonFalcon
Posted 2:37 PM 8/7/08
Suprisingly doesn't look that terrible. Maybe, dare I say it, fun even. At least a rental from what the trailer looks like. It can't be worse than Army of Two.
What I really can't wait for is the review scores.
Maybe 8.5s?
CarbonFalcon
HaydenTenno
Posted 2:35 PM 8/7/08
Take 50 and G-Unit out and I'll buy it! :)
HaydenTenno
CaffeinatedGuy
Posted 2:34 PM 8/7/08
That actually looks a lot better than I had expected.
Greg
CaffeinatedGuy
Gouki4u
Posted 2:32 PM 8/7/08
@LegendK1ll3r: This pretty much sums up my feelings. It is a game I feel the deep desire to mock, but it actually looks fun.
Gouki4u
symeon6
Posted 2:30 PM 8/7/08
I watching this vid and my girlfriend heard the movie guy say "50 cent, This time everything is on the line." Her comment: "Fucking retarded."
I second that.
symeon6
Xideo
Posted 2:30 PM 8/7/08
50 Cent:International Gangsta.Surprisingly, as low as my expectations are, this game doesn't look as bad as it could be.Comedy game of the year?
Xideo
The_Catalpa
Posted 2:30 PM 8/7/08
@y2julio: Yeah. I came in to mention that. Glad someone else noticed it as well.
That's a little bit disconcerting. Maybe one of the developers has the Wal-Mart shirt ([consumerist.com]) and is entirely oblivious as to the connotations? At least that's what I'm hoping is the case.
The_Catalpa
DONNYchiban
Posted 2:30 PM 8/7/08
@Dead Air ummm Dead Air: If you could play as Air Marshall 50 Cent, I would buy this game twice... or die trying.
DONNYchiban
EnragedTemplar
Posted 3:39 PM 8/7/08
omg, did anyone else see DUAL gatling guns, on the same friggn side of a helicopter!!!
that is like pointlesss seriously, how could that helicopter fly with 4 gunners, (Persuming that there is 2 guns on the other side) 4 guns, and enough ammo to last all four more then 15 seconds!?!?!?
EnragedTemplar
BlackdogGT
Posted 3:37 PM 8/7/08
This game is filled with WIN, LOLZ, and HURRRRRR
BlackdogGT
the_silencer
Posted 3:37 PM 8/7/08
50 truly is a SOULJAH!
the_silencer
Seroth
Posted 3:36 PM 8/7/08
In after people taking this game seriously.
It's gonna be hilariously awesome.
Seroth
Chef
Posted 3:34 PM 8/7/08
Sounded like he has to save his wife.
Chef
108
Posted 3:32 PM 8/7/08
@Terance!: and taking people seriously when they ask people to nominate them for comment of the week is about 3,000 times sadder :(
unless your serious-taking was, in fact, a joke, in which case man, the internet is confusing.
108
splaa
Posted 3:29 PM 8/7/08
This game is going to rule and not even ironically. G-G-G-G-G-UNIT
splaa
Gunhaver
Posted 3:28 PM 8/7/08
I for one thought the trailer was pretty good, kudos for being ballsy enough to show off gameplay at this early stage.
In all honesty the game looks like a GoW reskin, right down to 50's pose as he is moving about with a pistol drawn. But hey, that is not a bad thing. If this game gets even modestly good review scores i'll be giving it a shot. Looks like brainless fun.
Gunhaver
y2julio
Posted 3:27 PM 8/7/08
@The_Catalpa: I Don't know man, still fishy. "Totenkopf (Plural: Totenköpfe) is the German word for "skull" (literally "dead man's head") and is used to describe a military insigne featuring a skull superimposed upon crossed bones; when used in this context it is commonly known as a "death's head" in English. It is distinguished from the similar traditions of the skull and crossbones and the Jolly Roger by the positioning of the bones directly behind the skull."
y2julio
tavora
Posted 3:27 PM 8/7/08
This is sooooo Racist. A black guy killing a bunch of Arab guys.... Sooooo Racist.
Oh no, my bad, wrong game...The racist game is the one with the White Guy killing black zombies in Africa.
I am sooo sorry. Back guy killing Middle easterns is totally acceptable. I mean, havent heard anybody complaining, so it must be fine right???
tavora
Draylorn
Posted 3:27 PM 8/7/08
Lol, hail Xenu and shit.
Draylorn
Proz
Posted 3:24 PM 8/7/08
I will only buy this pre-order the game if I get my own Trailer Announcer Guy. He would have to follow me in my mundane life and make every boring activity sound like the greatest thing to happen.
"In a world of choices, one man... must decide... : What combo meal should he pick .. and then ... he must decide the most greatest choice ... of them all: Should he Super-Size .. or Not?"
Otherwise, I think I'll pass it by even when spotted in the bargain bin.
Proz
Nessman
Posted 3:20 PM 8/7/08
I could honestly see this as a spoof clip shown on any high-budget late-night show. It's surreal.
Nessman
Makidian
Posted 4:05 PM 8/7/08
YES!!!!! A whole game with 50 Cent music as the soundtrack, if the end of the game plays Candy Shop and he picks up the crystal skull and tells it that he loves it like a fat kid loves cake, I will totally spend ten bucks to buy this game in three or four or more years. Not bad looking though
Makidian
SG_Mahonay
Posted 4:03 PM 8/7/08
Quality.
SG_Mahonay
Polyh3dron
Posted 4:03 PM 8/7/08
HOLY CRAP...
Devs, you know you could have just cashed in on the 50 cent name and made a crappy game right? I mean that IS how it's done... WTF is your problem?
Polyh3dron
DwindleFlip
Posted 4:01 PM 8/7/08
We have hit an all new low.
Thank you 50 Cent. You're all class baby...
YUCK.
Is this game targeted at the broke ass wannabe "gangsta thugs" who pretend in their own life, to be 50 Cent?
Grow up. Real thugs work at walmart and get arrested stealing then go to jail. Great image to strive for you bling bling morons.
DwindleFlip
cephun
Posted 4:00 PM 8/7/08
what in god's name is this trash?!
next thing you know lil john will be in call of duty 5.
cephun
Absent Blue
Posted 3:51 PM 8/7/08
This game looks so ridiculous that I might have to get it.
Absent Blue
.em.
Posted 3:42 PM 8/7/08
The story is bad enough (and not just because its a 50 cent game), and this trailer makes everything worse.
.em.
Insomnia Bob
Posted 4:29 PM 8/7/08
That sad part is the game looks like it might have some decent mechanics. Why in the name of hell they decided to waste it on 50 cent, I'll never understand.
Insomnia Bob
Nexus6
Posted 4:23 PM 8/7/08
This looks like a turd polished in a golf ball cleaning machine. Go back to making shite music 50 and leave us alone.
Nexus6
gique
Posted 4:11 PM 8/7/08
I wouldn`t give it the steam off my urine.
gique
108
Posted 4:50 PM 8/7/08
@Insomnia Bob: "That sad part is the game looks like it might have some decent mechanics. Why in the name of hell they decided to waste it on 50 cent, I'll never understand."
Would you rather they create a brilliant, beautiful, lovable, original, attractive, new character like Marcus Fenix?
108
freakoflink
Posted 4:47 PM 8/7/08
Hahahahahahaha. Wow, I didn't think that something this shitty could ever have the budget to hire the movie announcer trailer dude.
freakoflink
KevinMassacre
Posted 4:46 PM 8/7/08
WOW. This hasn't even been released yet and it already goes right on the shelf with Shaq-Fu, Michael Jordan - Chaos in the windy city, and that old Sega CD game that had C+C Music Factory in it. A.K.A. The "Games-you-never-have-to-play-to-know-they-suck" shelf.
KevinMassacre
DONNYchiban
Posted 4:42 PM 8/7/08
@jfx316: Honestly, I do not know. He should have saved face and kept his promise about retiring after Kanye outsold him last September.
DONNYchiban
Kitty
Posted 4:42 PM 8/7/08
This is what happens when you throw Bad Boys and Escape from LA into a pot with a video game console.
I'm surprised this isn't coming out to box offices next summer.
Kitty
DespisedMC
Posted 5:18 PM 8/7/08
please tell me your kidding...I'm going back to mass effect, 50 cent is so overrated..can't wait when they make a soulja boi game...god help us when that happens
DespisedMC
SuperSplashBro
Posted 4:57 PM 8/7/08
If the game becomes $.50 I will seriously consider this purchase.
SuperSplashBro
punjabifury
Posted 5:34 PM 8/7/08
Oh good God, wtf is this crap?
punjabifury
kylerg
Posted 5:54 PM 8/7/08
@y2julio:
I thought the exact same thing immediately too!
kylerg
Len Bias Cocaine Surplus
Posted 5:52 PM 8/7/08
Take Army of Two
Put in 50 Cent.
Release game.
Len Bias Cocaine Surplus
Radz
Posted 6:14 PM 8/7/08
I beg every (stupid) gamer out there, to not buy this game. :)
Radz
mercatfat
Posted 6:58 PM 8/7/08
@HateFate:
you made the only comment so far that is both hilarious, insightful, and not full of misplaced outrage. excellent.
mercatfat
ViciousViper
Posted 6:41 PM 8/7/08
If there ever was a game where the soundtrack sucks worse than the gameplay, this is it.
ViciousViper
ibu
Posted 7:16 PM 8/7/08
Trailer Announcement Guy has sold me this game... im putting the readies down on this as I write this.
The game looks really good... im glad 50 Cent is making sure only quality AAA titles are linked to his name /sarcasm
... but it DOES look good
ibu
nitram100
Posted 7:28 PM 8/7/08
This game is like a train wreck, i just can't look away!
nitram100
robotleawesome
Posted 9:25 PM 8/7/08
@108: why does this guy have a star?
robotleawesome
eskimo-bob
Posted 9:18 PM 8/7/08
wait... what if this game actually gets GOOD... or dare I say, great, ratings?!
eskimo-bob
ChefReinhold
Posted 9:43 PM 8/7/08
If this was a movie there is no way the word "amazing" would be anywhere near it's description. These double standards are beginning to get on my nerves.
ChefReinhold
Reetesh
Posted 10:10 PM 8/7/08
"And escape... with his WIFE" ????
lol... every generation needs its Shaq-Fu :P
Reetesh
mdoubleok
Posted 10:45 PM 8/7/08
Sometimes my people shame me.
If he took a VIn diesal approach to his games then maybe it would be accepted more.
His last game actually sold very well. (50 Cent)
mdoubleok
ReconToaster
Posted 10:40 PM 8/7/08
No matter how great this game ends up being, I refuse to buy it simply due to the fact that it has a celebrities name in the title. I urge you all to do the same. We gamers are not that simple minded.
ReconToaster
salmonax
Posted 10:26 PM 8/7/08
@Koontz: best part of the trailer.
salmonax
Jehnn
Posted 11:00 PM 8/7/08
I'm going to lol if this game is somehow very good and we all ignore it because it's 50 Cent.
Jehnn
Kenny
Posted 11:37 PM 8/7/08
Guys, I'm pretty sure Luke was joking about the "amazing" comments. Apparently he shoulda laid on the sarcasm a bit more.
Kenny
Jerry Cola
Posted 11:33 PM 8/7/08
Rated 'R' for Retarded.
Jerry Cola
R3load
Posted 11:14 PM 8/7/08
@Jehnn: It is generally the other way around. It gets bad rating but sells well because it is 50 Cent. The first one was poor, very poor. This one wont do as well I dont thnk though, it will make 50 a lot of money though.
R3load
PsycheE
Posted 11:56 PM 8/7/08
Go Go Go Go, fiddy in the house, bounce; y'all already know what I am about :/
The game will sell, like the first one; for all the teeny boppers thinking "I get money" is the mantra for their lifestyle.
Oh fiddy, you saturated the mixtape scene, the corporate music scene, and now videogames.
@108: I didn't know the connectedness "Star" power was given to the less inclined; or spam.
PsycheE
Aethyr
Posted 11:53 PM 8/7/08
I would buy this game just so I could giggle like a schoolgirl at the various quips.
Aethyr
dArk_stAr
Posted 11:50 PM 8/7/08
This is a fantastic kind of awful that can only come from Americans with too much money.
dArk_stAr
Dual45s
Posted 12:25 AM 9/7/08
Lafontaine...really?
Dual45s
Coops89
Posted 12:19 AM 9/7/08
why at the bottom of the screen when he was having a fist fight that u see the german skull and cross bones.
i will not buy this because i cant stand 50 cent his music is shit every thing about him is shit.
Coops89
Haingis
Posted 12:13 AM 9/7/08
i laughed xD
Haingis
majatt
Posted 12:11 AM 9/7/08
I mean, if you put away the elite group think and just look at the gameplay it looks as though it could be a good game.
Everyone loves Gears afterall...and that had neither a deep story or intelligent characters.
majatt
majatt
Posted 12:08 AM 9/7/08
That actually looks good...wow.
majatt
NeoStarr
Posted 12:50 AM 9/7/08
He got shot nine times in that trailer.
NeoStarr
FranksnBeans
Posted 12:47 AM 9/7/08
As I sit in my office being all lawyer-like, this trailer oh-so-rudely reminds me that I have to kick myself in the ass for a couple of things: (1) I shoulda never quit pimpin'; (2) I should never quit shootin' shit up; (3) I shoulda never quit using drugs and steriods; (4) All those songs I sing to myself about beatin' ho's and doin' drugs, I shoulda been singin' 'em out loud; and (5) I should not have dodged those bullets.
Then, BY GOD THEN, they would make a couple of shitty games about ME!
Hindsight = one cruel bitch.....
J
FranksnBeans
dren
Posted 12:37 AM 9/7/08
I think this looks good and I want to play it.
dren
tindrummer
Posted 1:04 AM 9/7/08
****Heads up***
I'm not sure if the design team knew what they were doing, but it looks to me like when the controlled character (i'm assuming 50 Cent) is about to pull off some kind of special move, a skull appears at the bottom of the screen. Now, I looked at the trailer a few times, and the skull is strikingly similar to this particular skull...
[upload.wikimedia.org]
That being the skull the Nazi SS "Totenkopf" service used, particularly those divisions in charge of carrying out and overseeing the killings in the concentration/extermination camps. Some designer recently got in trouble for inadvertently using the same image on a t-shirt sold at Wal-Mart-
[www.msnbc.msn.com]
Anyway what i am getting at is perhaps the graphics team didn't know what they were doing, perhaps they did, but regardless when it comes time in the game to kill a middle-easterner, a symbol very much like that of the Nazi SS Totenkopf division appears. This really should be brought to someone's attention before the media backlash ensues when this game is released and someone else notices. Pretty unacceptable stuff, really... be it through negligence or worse.
tindrummer
dislexiq
Posted 12:57 AM 9/7/08
why do i keep hearing so much hype on this game....is it some on going gag about how 'amazing' the game is or something?
dislexiq
FranksnBeans
Posted 1:35 AM 9/7/08
@tindrummer:
Point agreed. However, I just did a pause on the scene where Fiddy is about to punch someone and that skull on-screen looks nothing like that Nazi symbol.
J
FranksnBeans
Darthvinder
Posted 2:55 AM 9/7/08
This game is the one that's going to make all subsequent 50 Cent games automatic AAA titles.
Darthvinder
tindrummer
Posted 2:41 AM 9/7/08
saving the video and blowing it up makes it a bit clearer... it isn't the same, still seems a little too close for comfort given the already racially strained premise- :shrug:
tindrummer
TearsandScreams
Posted 3:57 AM 9/7/08
I can see this being a B Movie video game, we had a discussion on here AGES ago about it I believe, and I see this as a possible example of B movie gaming. It could be fantastically bad, but it's expectations are so low we're going to be surprised if it's not I'm sure. I'm expecting it to be not terrible.
TearsandScreams
EndersGame
Posted 4:27 AM 9/7/08
That guy is living the dream. Who cares if the game sucks. I want to be a rap star.
...actually, fuck that. I want to be Fifty Cent.
EndersGame
DARTH_TIGRIS
Posted 4:11 AM 9/7/08
@Dead Air ummm Dead Air:
You win.
I didn't think it looked THAT good, but oh well.
DARTH_TIGRIS
Mal-Content
Posted 5:02 AM 9/7/08
Fifty Cent and the Kingdom of the Crystal Bling!
Lesson learned: white dudes killing possessed Africans is bad. Black dudes shooting arabs is all good. No word yet on if they are also possessed.
Mal-Content
malio
Posted 5:00 AM 9/7/08
If, by amazing, you mean lol-worthy.
(which I think you do, Luke) ;)
malio
Enigma_20XX
Posted 5:50 AM 9/7/08
Wow... that so doesn't look right...
... I don't mean the game.. it actually looks... for once, decent... I mean... what the hell's 50 Cent doing over there?!!?
Enigma_20XX
Mujah
Posted 6:21 AM 9/7/08
@Draylorn:
wat
Mujah
Uzumaki_Kiba
Posted 9:00 AM 9/7/08
What the fuck streets did he grow up on? That's a pretty bad part of town, if he's learned to use an RPG there.
Or that machine gun in the helicopter.
Baaaad part of town.
Uzumaki_Kiba
y2julio
Posted 11:20 AM 9/7/08
@FranksnBeans: If you look at the other Totenkopf images on google, the skull in the 50 cent games a lot like the other SS Totenkopf's. Plus the Totenkopf has the crossbones behind the skull just like the skull in this game.
y2julio
HoxtonHero
Posted 9:55 AM 10/7/08
This looks kinda interesting. I may have to rent it.
HoxtonHero