50 Cent: Bulletproof is an action video game developed by Genuine Games and published by Vivendi Universal Games for the PlayStation 2 , Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles, which released on November 17, 2005. 50 Cent: Bulletproof was reworked into a PlayStation Portable version titled 50 Cent: Bulletproof G Unit Edition, with a top-down perspective, which released in 2006. A sequel, 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, was released in 2009.
The story revolves around protagonist hip hop musician 50 Cent's search for vengeance against the hitmen who attempted to murder him. The game features members of the G-Unit rap crew as a gang. Dr. Dre plays an arms dealer, Eminem plays a corrupt police officer, and DJ Whoo Kid plays himself as a person selling "bootlegged" music (of the G-Unit camp) out of his trunk. A soundtrack album titled, Bulletproof, was released by DJ Red Heat's Shadyville Entertainment. It won "Best Original Song" in the 2005 Spike TV Video Game Awards.
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Plot
50 Cent quickly finds himself being dragged back into the criminal underworld, taking on the most dangerous crime organizations in New York City, uncovering an international conspiracy with devastating implication.
The setting is New York. 50 Cent, one night in his apartment, gets a call and page from his former cellmate and friend "K Dog". The latter tells the former he is trouble. 50 Cent gets his "nine" and leaves. 50 Cent then gets his crew: Rappers Lloyd Banks (who is the locksmith and weapon of choice is a "gat"), Young Buck and Tony Yayo (The demolition expert whose weapon of choice is a Mac 11). They all go down to the subway station.
The crew go to Queens, New York, & see K Dog being physically assaulted by unknown masked assailants. After killing multiple masked unknown assailants, 50 Cent is shot 9 times & left for dead. 50 Cent wakes up in Doc Friday's house/workplace. Doc Friday was a licensed doctor until he started writing prescriptions for himself. Tony Yayo & Young Buck were the 2 that had brought 50 to Doc Friday. 50 Cent is then welcomed & greeted by his fellow New York natives & friends who initially thought he was dead, such as: Moet & Chandon, 50's prostitutes; Bugs, a paraplegic pawn shop owner who throughout the video game story-line give(s) 50 Cent missions & information. He sees his belongings in the pawn shop, and demands his belongings shipped back to his home. After walking out he runs into Grizz, a war vet who lost his trigger finger in the war. The 2 then go see Popcorn, a psycho that sells "counter kills" (slow motion special kills) to 50 Cent. Then, he sees Booker, a homeless man who knows everything. 50 Cent goes to Detective Aaron McVicar who is a corrupt cop for information. McVicar agrees to help 50 Cent in exchange for money.
50 Cent & Lloyd Banks go to see K Dog at a safe house, guarded by masked assailants and federal agents. The safe house is located in West Chester, New York. After killing masked assailants and cracking safes, the 2 discover K Dog as well as the federal prosecutors's corpses. 50 gets K Dog's belongings. He brings it back to Bugs, who is able to listen to the messages left on the phone. 1 of the messages says K Dog was supposed to meet up with "Spyder", a crystal meth drug dealer about trans-po routes. 50 decides to go after Spyder. 50 goes to "The Junkyard" to meet up with Spyder. After killing Spyder's assailants along with MCVicar, he kills Spyder. They notice a tattoo similar to the 1 on K Dog. He cuts Spyder's skin with the tattoo on it and gives it to Bugs. The tattoo is traced back to Wu-Jang, a Chinese drug kingpin. 50 kills Wu-Jang in Chinatown and takes his money.
Fellow Rappers including Eminem (as Detective McVicar) and Dr. Dre (as street-wise war veteran 'Grizz') will aid 50 Cent in this action-packed adventure.
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G-Unit edition
On August 29, 2006, Vivendi Universal Games released a G-Unit edition for the PlayStation Portable. While the story and cut-scenes are the same as the console counterpart, the game eschews the third-person perspective game-play for a top-down, isometric viewpoint. Also added is multiplayer game-play through ad hoc wireless connectivity. The PlayStation Portable version featured a "Vitamin Water" mini-game in which you play as 50-Cent at the apex of his business endeavors.
Reception
50 Cent: Bulletproof received generally very mixed reviews due to poor game-play mechanics, but it was praised for its solid story line & music. It received 1 out of 5 and a Golden Mullet from X-Play. In spite of this, it received a positive rating of 8/10 from Official UK PlayStation 2 Magazine.
The PlayStation Portable G-Unit Edition was also received by generally very mixed reviews from critics. GameSpot's Alex Navarro did, however, say that it was a better game than the PS2 or Xbox versions."
50 Cent: Bulletproof sold nearly 1.2 million copies. By July 2006, the PlayStation 2 version of Bulletproof had sold 600,000 copies and earned $27 million in the United States. Next Generation ranked it as the 98th highest-selling game launched for the PlayStation 2, Xbox or GameCube between January 2000 and July 2006 in that country. Overall sales of Bulletproof reached 850,000 units in the United States by July 2006. Its PlayStation 2 version received a "Gold" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), indicating sales of at least 200,000 copies in the United Kingdom.
References
External links
- 50 Cent: Bulletproof at MobyGames
- 50 Cent: Bulletproof at MobyGames (PSP)
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