When 50 Cent comes face to face with AceGamez' resident Fiddy hater, sparks may fly!

Yo! There ain't many bitches out there who got shot nine times,
But I'll kick your ass anyway - caus' you ain't no friend of mine,
Takes a lot-of-skill and talent to bust out all these rhymes,
If you screw me over again I'll commit a crime -
- of murder, fool, your white ass-on- the line,
I might just come right over there and take five of your dimes,
That makes 50 Cent, bitch, and he's gonna kill you in your prime,
And you'll probably taste good, roasted slowly in some thyme!

Alright Fifty - let Dexter retort,
I've just played your game and here's what I thought,
A little over violent and a little overwrought,
Pointless killing, all those thugs you fought,
I'm no fan-of-yours, so I really ought -
- to give this game a poor score of naught,
But I'm a level-headed bitch, a reviewer who's been taught,
So it'll possibly get-a-seven even though it left me distraught!

Screw you Dexter, what kind of name is that?
I'll hit you around the head with my baseball-bat,
I'll execute you with my pistol-BANG-BANG-SPLAT,
See if you survive nine shots, see if you're all PHAT,
Give me a poor score; Fiddy fans will buy my tat,
Cause' I'm 50 Cent, I prowl like an alley cat,
Who's wearing a golden Dolce and Gabbana hat,
G-Unit edition, whoa, it's time for some COM-BAT!

Fifty, man, you've got me all wrong,
Isn't it time we-all-just-got along?
Time to break this down, fully clothed to just-a-thong,
Else this review will be massive, bigger than King Kong!

BREAK IT DOWN!

Fiddy and I don't really see eye to eye, no more rhymes intended. I never liked him before he got shot, but the fact that this rapper cashed in on his tragedy left me speechless - it was if the whole thing was a set up. Sometimes part of me wishes that the guy who shot Fiddy nine times would have pulled the trigger a tenth time and put an end to this long ago. Another part wishes that he wouldn't have got shot at all, putting 50 Cent's fire to ashes before he really took off. But then, without all of this, who else would I have to rip to shreds? Who would I vent over? Kanye West? Maybe. But I think you'll find that there are more 50 Cent puns than there are for Kanye West. I haven't even joked about the exchange rate yet! Now could be my ultimate chance to show 50 Cent what I really think of him - in this very review. But, and I sigh as I type this, the truth is, 50 Cent: Bulletproof G-Unit Edition isn't actually that bad, especially for the avid Fiddy fan. Are you a Fiddy fan? Yes? Get out!

The game plays very much like X-Men Legends. You're looking down on 50 Cent and this top down view works very well for the most part too - of course, it's not as graphically rich as other gangster games on the PSP, GTA Liberty City Stories for example, but at least the loading times are fast. Basically, you move 50 Cent around various environments, the back streets of the ghetto and you're on a quest to give that mother sucker his just desserts, you want him to suffer like you did - but wait a minute 50. If you shoot this guy nine times, won't your nemesis become famous too? He has? Chamillionaire? The bastard!

The gameplay is real simple making 50 Cent G-Unit Edition a really accessible title that's good for a five minute blast. There are many weapons that you can use, but 50 Cent can only carry eight at a time - one of each weapon type it would seem. So you can have a pistol, a melee weapon, grenades, burst fire weapons such as shotguns, heavy weapons such as rocket launchers, and the list goes on. One thing I've noticed is that you never seem to be out of ammo. Sure, you do run out from time to time, but if your shotgun has just run dry, you can bet your 50 cents that your pistol is fully loaded - and you can have the desired fast killing effect from bashing and mashing the fire button a little faster with the pistol than you can with the one shot kills of a shotgun!

50 Cent isn't all about killing. I mean, he isn't all about killing people with guns or knives - he can perform some counter moves and execution attacks. Firstly, you can grab people, use them as human shields, throw them in any direction and beat them down with a club while they're caught up in your headlock. The best course of action if an enemy has a powerful weapon is to go and disarm him, so, stamina providing, you can hold down a button and the scene changes to 50 Cent taking the weapon off the enemy and then seeing Fiddy using it against them. So in one slick in-game FMV sequence you not only acquire their weapon but you kill them with it too. As you might have gathered, 50 Cent has a stamina bar, which accounts for a few things. If you have a lot of stamina for example, expect to perform sprints and executions - if you've run out, then fear not, stamina regenerates overtime.

That's about it for the gameplay - it's mostly all killing, though it's nice to mix up the killing, you know, throw a grenade, take down four thugs, then execute the fifth and steal his shotgun, using that shotgun to mow down some more enemies, walking through a sea of dead bodies and pools of blood. When those dead bodies are lying there you can actually perform body jacks and kick them while they're down - not out of spite but to search the thug for anything worth stealing. It's like a practical application for spite. Cash and valuable items are the main thing that you find on dead bodies, but things such as keys for doors or painkillers to heal yourself in times of crisis sometimes spill out too. Aside from the killing and the money snatching, there are a few puzzles to solve and mazes to navigate, going though loads of locked doors and finding keys to unlock other door, killing people along the way - it's quite fun, if you life isn't monotonous enough! Unfortunately it all gets a little repetitive. If it weren't for the story that breaks up the action (the story by Terry Winter, the guy who writes The Sopranos, gee!) it'd probably be a lot worse. Playing to unveil the story is a good call, as it's quite comedic and twisted and it has the mobster gangster feel for which Winter is famous.

I take my hat off to the amount of content - you can play lots of 50 Cent albums while going around killing thugs, you can even make your own playlist - not just to listen to in game, but to listen to on the go; essentially this is a game and a music UMD in one! To top it off there are various music videos to unlock and watch, so there's a nice amount of content here to really keep the 50 Cent fan coming back. Also, with cheats that you can buy for ridiculous amounts of cash, things like infinite ammo or infinite health might help the replay value on the gameplay front.

So the sound then - if you like 50 Cent then the music is excellent; there are dozens and dozens of music tracks, both popular album tracks and exclusive game tracks, to listen to as a backdrop for all the mass murder or to listen to as you're walking down to your local music store, to buy more 50 Cent merchandise in real life, ha, yeah right! The sound effects are pretty average though - there aren't many cheesy one-liners from 50 Cent while playing and the gun effects sound pretty basic. However, great voice acting from the man himself and loads of guest voices, including that of famous white boy 'whining Eminem' as I like to call him, with his moaning-rat-up-my-ass voice. Graphically there isn't much to say, the top down view works well for the gameplay, but it's by no means the nicest looking PSP game on the market at the moment and I find the visuals to be quite blurry - which is unusual considering that there are no pushed boundaries here. The FMVs look quite good, but the best thing about 50 Cent G-Unit Edition is the interface - the PDA style menu with nice big fonts, easy for selecting your music and navigating options.

Hey Dex, Eminem here,
You say my voice-is-whiney so I'll hunt you like a deer,
Pop a cap in yo' ass, it's me you better fear,
When I cook you and eat you, and wash you down with beer!

Ah shucks. You as well Eminem? Anybody else?

Diamonds are forever bitch; you better believe your eyes,
Kayne West by name, the man that you despise,
I'll take a classic song and mix it up with fries,
Another hit for me and another classic dies!

Kayne? Aw - this gets worse. 50 Cent, anything to add?

Kayne's diamonds are cheap when 50 Cent's in town,
Eminem is cute and cuddly when Fiddy is around,
You can laugh at my game Dex, but I can hear the sound,
Of millions of dollars flowing into my bank account!

I'm growing impatient with you rappers…

…So I'll say to you all, even the readers back home,
If you want a game above average then you know where to roam,
Go buy, go shoot, go rap, but-don't-you-moan,
I warned you it was repetitive, but you really should have known…

…Even though this game is good in some respects,
It's easy to get into and not overly complex,
Loads of music to play, like a DJ on his decks,
And loads of replay value as I can recollect…!)

Reviewed by Dexter Pearson for AceGamez (All Rights Reserved).