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50 Cent’s PSP debut isn’t quite the same thing as its PS2 sibling. While the PS2 game was a straight third-person shooter, G-Unit Edition is a top-down shooter like the Untold Legends. While the gameplay is respectable, there is literally a ton of 50 Cent and G-Unit branded stuff in the game in the form of merchandise, songs, and videos.
In G-Unit Edition, you’ll once again play as 50 Cent. Fiddy is out trying to figure out why government agents are trying to blame him for K-Dog’s murder while at the same time trying to figure out who killed his friend. The game is told through some pretty good cutscenes although the story is obviously designed as an exercise in product placement and not as an attempt to tell something resembling a real story.
The gameplay in the game isn’t particularly complex. You go around the various levels looking for enemies in the various rooms and hallways. The enemies are quite aggressive with a number of weapons of their own to defend themselves. The game has a lock-on feature that is fairly useful although the shooting isn’t very difficult. While the shooting portions work fine they aren’t very interesting and are unfortunately a large part of what you’ll be doing in the game. The game has a few bosses but these are pretty much the same as the other characters with the exception of having more health. Most of the levels are linear but there are still some times when you don’t know what to do because of a lack of direction.
G-Unit Edition includes a new multiplayer component. The game has support for up to four players via local wireless multiplayer. It’s all pretty basic stuff: deathmatch and capture the flag, and such. However, considering that the gameplay isn’t really the highlight of the game it’s questionable how just how often the multiplayer mode will be used.
Although turning the game into a top-down shooter makes sense on the PSP, the new viewpoint took a toll on the game’s graphics. Because the camera is so zoomed out the characters look small and bland. Upon further inspection, you see that the characters look even worse when the camera pulls in though. The environments don’t look bad but to suffer from repetitive textures. The framerate is pretty solid though.
If you’re a fan of 50 Cent and/or G-Unit’s music, the audio will probably be the highlight of the game. While the sound effects aren’t particularly great, you will be listening to 50 Cent, G-Unit, Eminem and others do the voice acting for their characters, which is a nice treat. The soundtrack consists of dozens of 50 Cent and G-Unit songs from 50’s two CDs and G-Unit’s debut CD. Some of the songs were exclusive to 50 Cent: Bulletproof and those same songs are found in this game.
50 Cent: Bulletproof G-Unit Edition isn’t the most competent top-down action game available on the PSP. However, if you’re a fan of 50 Cent or his music, there is a lot of fanfare in the game. There are a lot of unlockable G-Unit music, videos and clothing in the game for fans to unlock. -- Adam Nunez, PGNx Media
---- Oct 30, 2006
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