Whether it's a misconception or a shameful truth, the whole virtual "gangsta" lifestyle of excessive violence and excessively foul language would seem to be the latest cash cow for many game developers, as Ubisoft's 187 Ride of Die apparently attests.

It's not much more than a generic car-carnage game where you're both driving and shooting your way across the lawless streets and highways of some generic metropolis.

Though a visual under-achiever, 187 does offer some pretty decent double-duty racing and shooting gameplay (or single duty each, for you and a co-operating second player), but to dress it up in foul mouthed cheese curdled from Milk de la Cash-Cow is superfluous, obvious, and more or less pathetic.