We all wondered what the "fantastic" UE3 game was all about at Swordfish Studios, when Epic VP Mark Rein said he was "blown away" by an early preview last year. It turned out to be 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, and as it happens, game director Julian Widdows was well chuffed by the comments.
"When we heard he was coming we were like 'oh no, we're gonna get killed!' But he was over the moon, we're chuffed about it," Widdows told CVG in an interview.
"We're obviously an Unreal Engine 3 licensee and he just came in for a visit and said 'oh my god, I can't believe you're working on this, it looks phenomenal'. That was it; it wasn't anything particularly formal, he came in to say hello to his licensees and was blown away by it. That was great for us."
The never-shy face of Epic told CVG last year: "It's fantastic. I was blown away and I said to them, 'wow, you've got a really great team there.'"
As a cover shooter on UE3, comparisons between the new Fiddy outing and Gears are inevitable. But Swordfish Studios man Widdows says they're in fact very different shooters:
"It's very different to Gears," he said. "Obviously in it's look and it occupies a different part of the market. One of the very early decisions when we decided to include cover was that we didn't want it to be as tactical as Gears. We wanted to show that you can be in open ground, you can charge people down. Did he give us any tips? No he didn't."
Read our first eyes-on impressions with 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand here.
When's bloody 'Fiddy' going to get blown away, that's what I want to know. God-awful self-whoring gangsta-wanka that he is...
I'd like to know that too.
Wonder if it will come out on PC with a mod that puts you in charge of an enemy & turns everyone else into 'fiddy'. Then go on a huge killing spree. Now that would be good
I don't think that it really matters how good, or even groundbreaking, this game will turn out - it will only sell to a very small minority of people that think it'd be cool to be 'Fiddy' (approximately 2 that would actually be of a legal age to buy it).
If I were them and this game is all they say it is, I'd ditch the license and create a brand new IP with the mechanics - 50 Cents name will not do this game any favours whatsoever......to me 50 Cent = s***, be it on an album, game, book etc (and, if this forum is anything to go by - I'm far from alone in that)
I don't think that it really matters how good, or even groundbreaking, this game will turn out - it will only sell to a very small minority of people that think it'd be cool to be 'Fiddy' (approximately 2 that would actually be of a legal age to buy it).
If I were them and this game is all they say it is, I'd ditch the license and create a brand new IP with the mechanics - 50 Cents name will not do this game any favours whatsoever......to me 50 Cent = s***, be it on an album, game, book etc (and, if this forum is anything to go by - I'm far from alone in that)
Good point that. I'm quite partial to a bit of hip-hop, turntablism and breakbeats - although I'm a metal fan at heart - but even if this game got over 90%, I still don't think I could put up with his mumbling buck-toothed my-crew's-harder-than-your-crew "gangsta" rambling b******s during the cut scenes.
Also I'll bet the in-game music sucks an incredibly large amount of balls.
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