50 Cent: Blood on the Sand plot revealed in IGN interview

161 Comments by Christopher Grant Mar 29th 2008 10:28PM
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360

50 Cent is hunting a "diamond encrusted skull" in the Middle East. Seriously.

Tags: 50-Cent-2, Blood-in-the-Sand, Sierra, Swordfish-Studios

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wickedpheonix: Mar 29th 2008; 10:31PM

april fools 2 days early?

DangerMouse: Mar 29th 2008; 10:52PM

Damn, i forgot it's so soon. Shittiest day of the year for the internet. Tricking morons into thinking they can get free internet out of the crapper is boring and stupid.

There should be some kind of law that only a half a dozen websites should be allowed to pull pranks, and the rest just need to stfu and stick to there normal routine.

Poisoned Al: Mar 29th 2008; 11:35PM

If it's a fake (which I'm sure it is), it's a damn good one. Someone took their time on it.

Mr.ESC: Mar 30th 2008; 12:06AM

Well I'm not sure about this but it could be a screenshot taken from any recent PC game with a level editor. You could change any character skin and Voalá 50 cent killing terrorists.

Dannyboi68: Mar 30th 2008; 12:37AM

no April fools joke, really really

Poisoned Al: Mar 30th 2008; 7:47AM

Esc, you've never made a character model or designed a level have you? Trust me, it's hard work. Good old Mr Photoshop is more likely.

bigsofty: Mar 31st 2008; 7:32AM

This guys a joke... Lets all sing a 50c song...

"Mumble mumble... life on the streets... mumble... bitches... mumble"

WTF makes you think I would buy a game with this tard in it?

NATO_Duke: Mar 31st 2008; 10:24AM

You all are nuts! I'm gonna pre-order this as soon as I can so I don't miss out on release day.

fischju: Mar 29th 2008; 10:35PM

How many whities did 50 Cent have to bust a cap in to get A SECOND game?

i_hate_mtv: Mar 30th 2008; 1:23AM

The reason for it's existence is simple: the original sold over a million copies.

Sad, but true.

Synner: Mar 30th 2008; 6:47AM

because rap fans are stupid.

Mike: Mar 30th 2008; 10:41AM

Synner's an idiot. Since we're generalizing; based on your avatar I'm going to say that you're a skinny 5' 6" redneck from the hills of Tenn. with a Harley Davidson tattoo on your left shoulder and drives a beat up old Dodge Ram. Oh, don't think I forgot about the Skoal you have in your mouth and you spit into a use Pepsi bottle that you keep in the right hand pocket of your camouflage jacket.

On a serious note, unfortunately this game is for real b/c the first sold 1m copies.

jynxycat: Mar 30th 2008; 12:34PM

^ owned ?

Mushroom: Mar 29th 2008; 10:36PM

For seriously man.

vidGuy: Mar 29th 2008; 10:36PM

I got to admit the pics make the game look appealing but the premise sounds like it will suck ass. I'll predict this game gets a significantly-better-than-Bulletproof, but also a less-than-appealing metacritic grade of 60.

copa: Mar 29th 2008; 10:40PM

According to the 1UP Yours podcast, it's even better than that.

50 Cent is in the Middle East to do a USO benefit show. After the show, he tries to get paid, but the producers say they don't have the cash. (This immediately establishes the educational benefits of the game. I had no idea that when entertainers went to do USO benefits, that they demanded fees for it)

Any way, the producers offer him the diamond encrusted skull in lieu of cash, and he's cool with that.

Only, some shady Arab is all like, "Yoinks! I'll take that!". And then Fitty is all, "I pity da fool that takes my skull" and starts hunting him all over the desert.

NOW do you think videogames can't be art, Ebert?!?

copa: Mar 29th 2008; 10:45PM

OK, now I see the link to the IGN article, where they already said everything I said.

Obie: Mar 29th 2008; 11:10PM

Copa, you lolkilled me awesome dude.

Neebs: Mar 30th 2008; 12:04AM

and then he gets in one little fight and his mom gets scared
and says he's moviing with his aunt and uncle in bel-air

Abuzar: Mar 30th 2008; 7:30PM

Then I decided to kill the joke.

Toodoo To do
Toodoo To do

Roto13: Mar 29th 2008; 10:43PM

Maybe the next time he gets shot, it'll actually take.

Chameleon: Mar 29th 2008; 10:47PM

::sigh::

on behalf of black people everywhere i'd like to issue and overdue apology from the depths of my soul.

not so much specifically for the game, but for 50's general existence ....

-you have my deep appreciation for your continued understanding regarding this matter.

copa: Mar 29th 2008; 10:51PM

That's cool, man. So we're even with the whole George W Bush thing?

DangerMouse: Mar 29th 2008; 11:01PM

On behalf of white people everywhere, i would like to apologize for Pauly Shore's somewhat brief Hollywood popularity. While also long over due...having to endure shitty movie after shitty movie was uncalled for, and should be noted that we no way endorse his actions.

Fernando Rocker: Mar 29th 2008; 11:03PM

And I'm apologize for Hugo Chavez... we latin americans are not like him =(

Cal: Mar 29th 2008; 11:07PM

I, as an Englishman, apologise for Tony Blair, David Beckham, the queen. . .

Sir Fidlious Wong (Zeon Defense Force): Mar 29th 2008; 11:16PM

I, as a white person, do not apologize for Pauly Shore and in fact endorse his actions by imploring my fellow man to freeeeee maui maui.

embassy: Mar 29th 2008; 11:23PM

why are you apologizing when the majority of people who support 50 cent and buy his music/clothes/video games aren't black?

Mr.ESC: Mar 29th 2008; 11:57PM

I'm a Human being an I apology for 50 cent existance as well and I also apology for the existance of half of the internet and most of the Human race.People like Hitler,Uwe Boll,Ernesto Zedillo,Mao,Pinochet to name a few.

I'm so very effing sorry also for Daikatana.

DangerMouse: Mar 30th 2008; 12:17AM

John Romero & 50 Cent will make you their beyotch.

ExMcCloud: Mar 30th 2008; 12:42AM

I second Chameleons comment and apologize on the behalf of black people not just for 50 Cent existing but starting the trend that all the other rappers will follow now that they figured out they can make a quick buck off of our life style.........Please forgive us guys.

O yeah we're definitely even for the G.W. Bush thing but u still got hell to pay for F.E.M.A

Chameleon: Mar 30th 2008; 12:42AM

@copa
certainly

@danger,fernando & cal
apology accepted

@sheppy
fair enough

@embassy
point taken

@mr hanson
besides stepping behind a camera in the first place what has uwe boll ever done to anyone ... wait ... damnit ....

i_hate_mtv: Mar 30th 2008; 1:37AM

It's true, the majority of people buying this game are mother's buying it for their suburban white 'wigger' sons. I know this from first hand experience (working at GameStop).

Also, ghetto people can't afford PS360's. :P

t_m: Mar 30th 2008; 1:48AM

As GOD I apologize for the whole mess. However the Earth open Beta is nearly concluded and I hope to have everything fixed in time for the release date.

Please note: Characters from the beta cannot be carried over to the retail release.

hvnlysoldr: Mar 30th 2008; 2:17AM

I apologize for replying my apologies to the wrong apology train:
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/29/50-cent-blood-on-the-sand-plot-revealed-in-ign-interview/#c11344182

ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force): Mar 30th 2008; 2:34AM

On the behalf of the French, sorry for WWII.

i_hate_mtv: Mar 30th 2008; 7:59PM

What did I say that deserved minus votes? Am I missing something here?

Nick Coffman: Mar 29th 2008; 10:49PM

This is actually happening. Batten down the hatches everyone, this is Ragnarök.

Ranko: Mar 29th 2008; 10:52PM

It's like they used a nail gun to attach pieces of paper with so called "ideas" and nailed them to an intern and while he convulsed on the floor from pain, whatever piece of paper fell loose, they picked it up and put it into making this game.

Ross: Mar 29th 2008; 10:56PM

I wouldn't even pay 50 cents for that game.

Oh yeah, I went there.

rockintom: Mar 30th 2008; 2:51AM

*cent.

ArcticFox: Mar 30th 2008; 10:17AM

*hears a wooshing sound going over rockintoms head*

motorer: Mar 29th 2008; 10:58PM

my first reaction to this post was laughter. that's not really the kind of impression i would want to put out to people about my game.

Lijik: Mar 30th 2008; 3:31PM

Are you sure? I mean Vivendi is known for its extremely hilarious games such as Crash Twinsanity, Crash Tag Team Racing, Crash of the Titans and 50 Cent: Bulletproof.

msh_hitman: Mar 29th 2008; 11:01PM

So...this isn't an early aprils fool day joke? They can't honestly be thinking this was a good idea. It's one of those ideas where it's so awful, it just can't be real.

I have to seriously question anyone that gives the go on this. The first one sucked balls obviously, so how could that warrant a sequel? We should be getting sequels or continuations of Shadow of Colossus or Okami or Dead Rising or something...Not this pile of crap. It's like the sequel to "Two Worlds". Why even try for one when the original was so bad?

jorojoserojas: Mar 30th 2008; 3:44AM

First one sold one million copies.

And doomed us all.

ill trooper: Mar 30th 2008; 7:13PM

Part of the blame has to be placed with Damien Hirst for making 'Crystal Skulls' worth so much...

ChuckD: Mar 29th 2008; 11:04PM

No way this is real. No way.

Curtis: Mar 29th 2008; 11:05PM

I wonder what G-Unit's role will be in this "story". Will they provide 50 the epic fist pounds necessary to fight his way out of the Middle East?

Cal: Mar 29th 2008; 11:40PM

They're all equivalents to the Scooby Doo crew

50 = Scooby
Young Buck = Shaggy
Tony Yayo = Freddie
Lloyd Banks = Scrappy

Then they take along a couple of 'ho's for Daphne and Velma...

Had to use wikipedia for names... =(

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