Eidos is putting the power of the streets in your hands as the blazing new game 25 To Life ships today! It's time to shine up your badge, or get your bling on, as the battle for the streets is about to begin. Not only do you get to bump your favorite hip-hop beats in the fight of your life, you can play as one of our unlockable celebrity artists too! Check out Tech N9ne, Daz, DJ Envy, and Kurupt and put them to use to protect your hood. The time is here. Represent... Online!

There's really no reason to buy this game. The single player is boring, arrestingly conventional and entirely forgettable. The multiplayer is slightly better, though mostly because of its options and not because of its gameplay. This game sorely needed some kind of unique movement, such as diving, rolling or a much more sophisticated duck and cover mechanic. As it is, the entire game consists of running up to foes and hoping you can shoot them more times than they shoot you. In the end, 25 to Life turns out to be a flimsy product that feels tacked together strictly for the purposes of producing a "gangster" game, which apparently sells copies. In the future, hopefully they can pair the theme with an interesting game design players can actually enjoy, or just stop making them altogether.