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It was simply inevitable. With Vivendi shipping well over a million copies of 50 Cent: Bulletproof to over a million suckers with crap taste in shooters, a sequel was expected. According to a cover snap of the latest issue of EGM, 50 Cent II, as we're calling it now, is reality. It's getting the "first look" preview treatment in next month's mag, something for which we're sure the boys at EGM were gentlemanly enough to feign interest in for a well-deserved exclusive.
Yeah, sure, I like "In Da Club" and "Hate It or Love It" too, but just because the dude has some finger snapping jams doesn't mean we need another game with his visage slapped on it, do we? Sometimes I feel like I'm talking to a wall, Vivendi Games!
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Hell yes.
/sarcasm
Shit's weak son, shit's weak!
G-G-G-G- Not going to Pre-oder! @Itchy (PSN: Kaizoku-ou): Exactly.
Fat Joe DLC?
*barf*
lmao. This game made me laugh the first time i saw it at Bluckbuster, and the sequel will probably be no different.
My prayers have been answered. This game is going right on my shelf next to Suikoden II and Intelligence Qube.
lol... I'm going to buy 5 copies of this game!
no, no, NO. you're supposed to play videogames and THEN engage in senseless violence, fiddy. you're doing it wrong.
@Lixie:
You have the best taste in games.
I'll meet you in Multi-player when it comes out.
I'll be that black guy with the guns and stuff, can't miss me.
Seriously who the fuck is going to buy the most likely M-rated and 18+ (pegi rating of the first 50 cent game) 50 Cent 2 except little kids who are 50 cent fans?
@Itchy (PSN: Kaizoku-ou): For reals
Over a million copies shipped? I can believe that. Sold, on the other hand, I can't believe. I work at a Fred Meyer (Northwest retail chain), and our electronics department has maybe 15, 20 copies for the XBox on clearance. They've been sitting there for months. What'll they run you? About 6 bucks. They're practically giving them away, and people still don't want it. Best of luck with the sequel, Vivendi.
Game of the year, you heard it here first.
isn't activision now?
and when is SCII coming out?
Don't hate. 50's just following in a long tradition of shitty games staring celebs.
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I will admit that I kind of like the Journey game:p
although this comment has nothing to do with fifty cent, it has everything to do with socom.
I CANT WAIT! (for socom[on ps3])
Oh well. The folks at UK:R can vote for it at the Golden Joystick awards again.
Should be fun! =/
It shall be sold for a dollar.
Can we make it a Q-unit game with Freddie Mercury and 50 cent co-op gameplay?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! ... HAH HAH... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!.
Hey, better a 50 cent game then yet another "Tom Clancy's Mario vs Sonic vs Pac-Man Drag Racing" or all the other crap licensed games that publishers spew onto the Wii.
Shouldn't they just call this Dollar:Bulletproof?
I must have it!
Just so I can throw it in the garbage can.
Wasn't that also one of the worse games ever or something? I remember Xplay hating on it because it a shooter where it's literally impossible to shoot anyone even when there right in front of you.
i think fiddy bought all 10 million copies.
A sequel to fitty cent? What's next, a new Banjo-Kazooie?!
Oh wait...
There may be a Santa, but there is no god.
@insertinear: ...I have no idea what it is, but I'd play it just to find out.
It might bomb out, the rap fad is over after all.
@Schoolimangooli: Oh man, I just had a scary thought. What if they bundle an exclusive Starcraft 2 beta/demo for the PC version? How many units would that sell? :P
But I thought games that sell lots of copies are good?! Wait you mean thats not true?!
My "brilliant" idea for a "genius" title which incorporates the sequel number into the name - 52 Cents! Or, if you prefer a subtitle - 50 Cent II: For Half a Buck More! I have hundreds of these... I'll spare you all the misery of hearing them.
They shot him down, they shot his game down, Kanye shot him down. But he wount die!
@cybereality: Please tell me that's a third-person tactical high-speed kart racing sim wherein you race through a maze, all the while picking up banana peels and power pellets. If so, count me in for three.
Wasn't 50 Cent supposed to stop making music after Kanye West outsold him?
Anyway, I feel for the developers assigned to work on this...
yes. the first game was so awesome and i played it over and over at least 50 times. im so glad that i love rap and there actually incorperating it into games. this will be bigger that halo. i was going to buy mgs4 but now i better save all of my money to buy at least 10 copies of the game
/sarcasm. none of this was true and rap is really horrible just like that game
Possibly contractual?
I hereby dub "50 Cent II" as ...... "One Dollar"
That's probably all it will be worth as well ;)
I never knew how he got a game in the first place, much less a record deal, or any other prestige he has received. He is a horrible singer, song writer, role model, etc etc.. I just long for the day when his genre fades away like all the other fads in the music industry.
Come on Michael. Just say it. You hate 50 Cent.
So...
Was the first one any good? or was it a GTA clone? never knew 50 Cent had a game.
For a second I thought 50 cent was on a cover and I was about to scream bloody murder. At least Kanye beat him in release of new albums hopefully some game will come out at the same time to crush it mercilessly.
Dance Dance Revolution: Chris Brown Edition and Soulja Boy's Big Brain Academy. I smell their arrivals right around the corner.
This is definitely one of the worst games I've ever had the misfortune to play, we put it in a demo Xbox when I worked at FYE and I took it out the next day, for fear its awfulness might consume the souls of unsuspecting passerby ;)
And I don't HATE 50 Cent's music either, even though its one of the most misogynistic songs I've heard (well, if you just forget Too Short exists for a moment), I love the song "(Bitch) Get in My Car" from his second album.
@Tomeeboy: Truth has never been more clear.
What's so surprising !? The casual market is bigger than the hardcore one. So there's really a lot of Xbox360 owners that only plays sports games, Need for Speed Underground and of course a few GTAs ...
Couldn't that just be a uh, April Fool's joke or something?
@godrifle:
I"ll say it. I hate 50 cent. He's a crap artist and a disgrace to anything related to music. Of course the number of rap artists on that list is incredibly long.
This is the april edition of egm isnt it? Is there a possibility that this could be their joke?
50 cent is so irrelevant in pop culture at this point in time that i cant imagine a sequel actually happening...
@scotty: I'll be the guy scoring all the kills. I'll see you on there.
Everyone leave 50 cent alone! You do know he saved us from terrorists, right?
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@Philudo: I think "dollarproof" would be more accurate.
@Capp: agreed. He is one of the reasons I believe hip hop lost its "real music" argument a long time ago. I never liked him, Never liked his garbage ass music and after seeing the first game run for 10 minutes had no interest to soil my console with it. I'd give it and the sequel to a dog to shit on.
@Kyle81: Ever worked anywhere that sold music, or DVDs for that matter? 50 Cent releases (or did when he was big, and I did work in a music store) probably 5-10 DVDs per year and as many CDs that are mixtapes with little/no real new material, and THEY ALL SELL. As kongamaniac pointed out, what happened to give them those Million sales was that based on the sales of all his other properties, stores like FM, FYE, etc that stock both games and other media made orders for the game on the same level as other "marquee" video games. So Vivendi made their cash on those orders up front, many of them sold to fools/50 Cent fanatics (there is a minor distinction/the ignorant, etc, and then got resold as used quickly, so now many stores have a huge used stock that just shifts around to different chain outlets, trying desperately to be sold to the unsuspecting.
So from Vivendi's perspective as Soulless Corporate Bastards who care nothing about gaming, why not release another one? If 50 drops an album within 6 months in either direction of the game's release, it will make back their money and then some just on crossover sales alone, even if its garbage again.
50 Needs more Nose Candy, after all.
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Ugh, talk about trash. Yeah dogg, rap with those bikini models with the big butts.
@Ixero: "Was the first one any good?"
Don't you dare even think about it.
Shame he didn't get shot after that first game... Alright after this crap Vivendi do you promise you'll make a sequel to Shaq Fu?
9 bullets can't stop this peice of shit franchise.
Horrible rapper....sounds like he has shit in his mouth.
It's sad when he sells a million CDs but real hip hop artists like Jurassic 5 are ignored by the mainstream.
@Capp:
You're right, the list of good is shorter than the list of bad rappers, but that applies to any form of Music when it explodes (see the late 60s and early 70s for Rock and Roll, yeah some amazing historic stuff but it was swimming atop a sea of garbage, go check your Billboard Charts if you don't believe me), for every awesomely gifted freestyle champion (Q-Tip, or eyedea for example) there are a Dozen 50 Cents and Ja Rules who have 1-2 barely passable beats per album which they do their best to destroy with uninspired lyrics.
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Forget about Guilty Simpson, though Cee Lo is decent he is the least of their talent (RIP J Dilla aka THE MAN), if you (general you, not just Capp) can't find anything you like on that label than I feel nothing but pity for your limited musical perspective ;)
I'm waiting for Tree Fitty
@poplin: EGM's april fools joke was Lego Halo.
Fuck this. Prince needs his own damn game, pronto. It will be the best thing to happen to gaming, ever.
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