E3: Fun with Fiddy

A few feet from Ubi's giant booth is the only slightly less impressive construction from Vivendi, who were one of the many publishers at E3 eager for a piece of the GTA pie. So they've hooked up with bad-ass mofo Fifty Cent for an ultra-violent gangsta saga, with Fiddy at its core.

It's not quite autobiographical (he has been shot loads of times for real, though) but Fifty Cent: Bullet-Proof does play on his hardcore lifestyle of guns, girls and rappin'. The PS2 epic features new choons and vids from Fiddy plus a whole heap of grisly finishing moves as authored by the man himself.

Vivendi tried hard to talk up F.E.A.R. (PC) as the new Half-Life 2, even going so far as to suggest it was up for game of the show, but the nice little segment on show of this survival-horror FPS couldn't do justice to the claim. In fact, given that scariness is toted as its selling point, it was a crying shame the demo ended before any of the nasties emerged from the dark. Full marks for trying, though.

One low-profile title which looked really fun was Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction (PS2/Xbox), where the fuzzy graphics are easily compensated for by the immense entertainment of the car-smashing, building-leaping green monster.