I just saw 50 Cent's "Bulletproof" video game and Scarface the video game. Bullet proof has all of the G-Unit, who are 50 Cent's cronies, in the game. Lloyd Banks plays your main man, along with Tony Yayo and Young Buck. The game starts off as you and the G-Unit walk up to save an acquaintance from the past "K-Dog" who is in a sort of "drug deal gone bad scenario".

"K Dog" is talking to a guy outside of what looks like a night club and the door swings open.
It's a setup! The G-Unit starts shooting and the other teams start to shoot at you. You can shoot and kill targets with your assortment of hand guns or you can get up close and use your knife. You can also search and rob your victims for jewels, drugs, etc. so that you can add it to our stash and pawn it for money to use on later missions. The graphics are cool, standard high definition stuff, and you get to use props on the game such as dumpsters or other victims as "human shields".

The coolest part about this game are the peripherals. You get full access to all of 50 Cents music to play as you slay. You also get a better part of his music video catalog and -pay attention to this part- you get a G Pod, which is where you send and receive messages from homies such as Dr. Dre, Eminem and other characters in the game. On your GPod, you also get tips and tricks on how to get to certain objects on your mission.

All in all, it's a cool game for a "studio" game, Vivendi Universal makes it in collab with 50 Cents movie, but it lacks a real story line and strategy elements in my opinion. But, keep in mind, I only saw a demo.

I also saw a special sneak peek of Scarface. This game picks up at the mansion with you at the top of the staircase shooting everybody with "your little friend" in order to get out of the mansion. In other words, Scarface the video game is a sequel to the movie, with you as Tony Montana trying to shoot your way out.

Once you shoot your way out of the mansion, you have nothing, so you have to build your empire back up to go get back at "Sosa" your arch nemesis. The cool part about this game, which is also put out by Vivendi Universal, is that all of the characters are there. Sosa, The f***ing Diaz Brothers, and even Minolo, your best friend that you 'killed" but hey this is the video game, so Minolo comes back to life to help you out.

If you make it out of the mansion alive, you're mission is to go and get the Diaz Brothers and then Sosa in that order. On your way to get them you go through three of the game's environments, Miami, Cuba and Bolivia. Before you can seek your revenge you have to build up your empire so you must go back on the lam as Tony Montana and rob, cheat and-this is part is big- you even have to sell drugs to make money.

I couldn't believe this when they showed it to me! The awesome part about the drug dealing mode, from what I am told, is that you have to negotiate the deal. You can't just walk up and press a button to sell. I mean the drug dealing has strong "RTS" real-time strategy elements that make the selling an actual skill on the game. I haven't seen the dealing mode yet but if it's half as real as what was described then Scarface the video game will be absolutely sick. I am sure that this mode will get political criticism but on a pure gaming level this mode is very immersive, RTS heavy stuff.

Oh yeah, also as you traffick your "stuff' you have to fight with rivals who are trying to take your stash or trying to take over your route. As I said, the game seems sick.