YMMV / 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: Some cultures actually decorated human skulls in ornate manners, though possibly not to the extent of the skull in this game.
• Complete Monster: Said Kamal is a terrorist crime lord who views himself as a god. Having a helping hand in turning a city into a crime-ridden wasteland with his heroin trades and thefts, Kamal regularly guns his men down for failing him and threatens to harshly punish them for running away. Kamal's worst act comes in his deals with the strip club owner Eddy, allowing him protection if he lends some of his strippers for him and his men, with Kamal having mutilated Eddy's favorite stripper Ruma while raping her.
• Designated Hero: 50 Cent is, at best, a Sociopathic Hero that is barely any better than the villains. He goes to a Middle Eastern country, blows the crap out of the already-crumbling infrastructure, loots it of whatever few scraps of wealth it possesses, and threatens anyone who talks to him with a shotgun, all for some blinged-up skull. Charlie Brooker talked about this in his review of the game during Gameswipe.
  "And Fifty is such an unsympathetic character, such an almighty dick, I don't actually want him to survive any of the fire fights. In fact I keep making him deliberately run into the scenery in the hope that he snags his balls on the edge of a table or something. Go on, you tit."
• Good Bad Bugs: Spinning around really fast causes 50 Cent's hips to jiggle comically.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: 8 years after Blood on the Sand's release, a developer shared a story about how a literal 7-year-old child (specifically, the real 50's son) was brought in to give his opinion of the game before release. Turns out he was the reason why the helicopter segments got made at all.
• Magnificent Bastard:
  • Raoul is an Arms Dealer who will supply anybody with weapons as long as they have the money for it. Helping out 50 Cent on his journey to reclaim his jewel-encrusted skull solely for the money, Raoul often provides assistance whenever he can, from supplying C4 needed to create a distraction that leads to Said Kamal's hideout getting set aflame with many of his men still inside, to recruiting a surviving enemy helicopter pilot to work for him so that 50 can use said chopper to chase after Wilder's men, while still charging 50 for it.
  • Derek Carter is a cool-headed mercenary for Trident who values money above morality. Siding with whoever pays him the most, Carter, hired by 50's promoter Anwar to help the rapper take down Kamal, makes a deal with 50 to assist him in robbing a truck full of gold before Kamal could as a form of payment. Manipulating 50 into wiping out Kamal's communication towers and his best men, Carter acquires the gold by activating a hidden explosive and knocking the truck off course. Betraying 50 to take all the gold for himself, Carter would've made it out with the gold if not for 50's tenacity.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "BITCH TOOK MY SKULL!"
  • "YO 50 JUMP OVER THAT BIG ASS RAMP!"
• No Problem with Licensed Games: Most aspects of it are either So Bad, It's Good, or unironically sincerely good.
• So Bad, It's Good: While the gameplay is decent, the story itself is basically an unintentionally hilarious escapist fantasy for 50 Cent, placing the game into this territory.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: No one talks about 50 Cent: Bulletproof, except to note that Blood on the Sand is way better.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: None of the character models emote outside of cutscenes, so the player is treated to numerous CQC kills where 50 Cent kills his enemies with a dead-eyed, vacant expression on his face.

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