I think it can be agreed to that a game that is A) an obvious rip off of a popular franchise, B) is poorly done, and C) is using a popular media figure to boost its sales is a crappy premise, period. The game scored low across the board. If it were called "Urban Gunners" or something without Fiddy's dumbass plastered all over it, no one would have cared.
The fact is that Fiddy was used to sell it to kids. And this is bolstered by the fact that he went on record to tell parents "it is perfectly okay for young children to play this, just explain it to them." I saw kids - probably 8-14 - at no less than 3 Gamestops asking for this game. Not only that, but their parents were with them and agreed to get it. The game was advertised left and right in the store. I doubt the employees cared whether or not the kid was "mature" enough to play it, and I can gaurantee the parents didn't. That is absolutely infuriating to me as a gamer because it means I'll have to put up with bullshit from the general public about the general impression of gamers.
Yea, ok. The game is trash, period. It's selling out and appealing to people based on weak reasons.
Finally, the denizens of the interweb need to learn this phrase: OPINIONS CAN BE WRONG. Somehow a few years ago, I guess everyone took a philosophy 101 class collectively and learned that opinions are merely one's own projection regarding information, and decided "well damn, that means they can't be wrong if they are all relative!"
That's stupid, ok? And me calling it stupid is a fact. Opinions can be wrong. One guy might have an opinion that it's ok to stalk 12 year olds in middle school. Another guy might like to drag people into his car and murder them. These are extreme examples but it illustrates the point well enough. This "omfg it is relative so it is okay" nonsense needs to be purged from the intertron. It's pathetic, and people hide behind it like its an ironclad defense to say whatever the hell you want.
I gather that I'll receive word that this post is misguided, and that's fine, but I've had my say and I don't need to defend it any longer.