Blood on the Sand is not the first game that 50 Cent has starred in; this fact alone should be enough to upset most people with enough thought processing power to get fully dressed in the morning.  For me aging rappers (with strangely highly detailed wrinkles) aren't really action stars, let alone enough to justify a second video game based around the exploits that they probably firmly believe that they are entirely possible... for them.  The fact that 50 still wears an armored vest and guns on stage during most of his concerts pretty much confirms this theory.

This raises several very valid questions:

1: Is 50 Cent retarded?

2. Why is 50 performing in a country that is currently at war with the country he is from?

3.  Why would anyone pay anyone 10 million dollars for a single gig, or why would that performer not receive that money before the gig they played aforementioned gig?

4. Since when is anything with the word "skull" used to describe it allowed as payment, anywhere?

5.  No really, is 50 Cent retarded?

Probably one of the best conversations in gaming history happens when 50 is on the way to the airport, when he starts defending the mean streets that he grew up in to the war torn country that he is currently traveling through.  His argument is this: gangsters (him) are way more intense and hardcore than terrorists.  While there is a poor writer somewhere that probably spent sleepless nights trying to justify why this one person is able to take down most of the Iraqi army, I would rather like to think that it was just 50 talking shit during one of the recording sessions that was just too good to cut.  50 Cent is still a gangster in much the same way that my Grandmother, in her 80's, is still a Nazi killing machine.  I am sure that she still retains some of the knowledge she went through for basic training in World War II, but I don't know how well she would hold up at this point in a war-zone.

50's "acting" basically consists of him yelling one line at a time as loudly and as confessedly as allowed in a non-humor game.  There is a homeless guy who wanders around town and stairs at me while I shop for groceries (probably wondering what the inside of buildings and cooked meals are like) that I would trust to do better voice work then anything that I have heard here.  Several times during cut scenes 50's voice would start to rise as if he was asking a question, only this was almost always done when he was indeed not asking a question, leading me to believe that longer sentences cause him to become confused.

The best moments of the game shows up in the mandatory driving level where there is simply a massive jump thrown into the middle of the stage. This one moment erases any attempt to take the experience seriously.  Partly because 50 is prompted to "hit that big ass ramp!" by the man riding shotgun, but mainly because it unlocks the easiest achievement in 360 history, causes the ramp to explode, the vehicle to gain all of 3 inches of air and spin wildly out of control (not that this section of the game controlled well to begin with), and the player to lose turn off the game.

At points it almost feels as if this could be passed off for some kind of functioning prototype, aside from the glaring failures.  Then the boss battles happen.  The problem with boss battles:  they are all helicopters.  Every single boss battle in the entire game comes down to 50 running around an area, picking up rockets and a rocket launcher and taking down a helicopter, every time.  They are basically copy and pasted battles in different locations, all at the same difficulty and pray the player is too stoned to notice.

I will end by pointing out that Wikipedia, a place that all information regardless of how useless lives, only mentions this game at the very bottom of the page in a list of other things that he has done briefly.  This is shoehorned into the same amount of space that his 30 seconds on Entourage is also mentioned.  This game cost several million dollars to make.