According to foreign media reports, in a recent interview with NME, the developers who participated in "50 Cent: Blood on the Sand" revealed that the game will initially be titled Tom Clancy. But eventually the plan was canceled because the publisher didn't actually own the right to crown a Clancy.
Released in 2009 on xbox 360 and PS3, 50 Cent: Blood Sand is a fairly standard third-person cover shooter. The game starred rapper 50 Cent and his G-Unit team, which greatly increased its popularity. The game plots that after a concert in an unknown Middle Eastern country, 50 Cent and his crew get paid for a diamond-encrusted skull. But before they left, their sweet bonus was stolen. 50 Cent must fight and get it back. The game involves a lot of desert levels, shooting, and hiding behind waist-high bunkers.
As a large part of the game's cancellation, developer Darren Yeomans told NME that when the game was just being developed, there were no famous rappers in the plan at all. Instead, for more than a year, the people at game developer Swordfish Studios have been thinking that the games they're committed to developing will eventually become things in the Tom Clancy Universe.
Yeomans explained that when publisher Vivendi threw a "giant curve ball" at the team and asked them to redesign the game around a celebrity who already had the naming rights, the studio had completed several levels and started working on the gameplay, and who was the person who suddenly changed? 50 Cent？ Because Vivendi had previously released 50 Cent: Bulletproof in 2005, according to another developer interviewed by NME, the work had made Vivendi a lot of money.
However, the weird story behind the development of this weird game doesn't end there. According to the developers who later became involved in the game, after Tom Clancy. The game was briefly based on the Spy Series. However, the plan was never made, so the game was shelved and remade into its current version, 50 Cents: Blood Sands.
Even after the game was completely transformed into a 50 Cent game, development was still difficult. At one point, already in the later stages of development, the kids of 50 Cent played a version of a game and suggested to the developers to add helicopters. The developers, who were demonstrating the version at the time, explained that the game was a third-person shooter with no helicopters. But at the child's insistence, 50 Cent interjected and told the developer "You heard it." Level with a helicopter! ”
When the game was released, it included a helicopter section as well as a battle with their boss.
Still, 50 Cents: Blood Sand is still better than you might think. Despite the good reviews, it didn't sell well, and the studio behind the game, Swordfish, closed the following year. But based on anecdotes about its development over the years, developing this game sounds like a nightmare. Failure like that can be more painful than we think. Hopefully, developers will be able to find better jobs elsewhere and no longer need to listen to 50 Cent's request.