Get This: 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand Started Out As A Tom Clancy Game

In an interview with NME, a developer who worked on 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand revealed that originally the game was going to be a Tom Clancy title. But because the publisher didn’t actually own the rights to Clancy’s name, this plan was scrapped.

50 Cent: Blood On The Sand was released for Xbox 360 and PS3 back in 2009. It’s a fairly standard third-person cover shooter, elevated greatly by the fact that it stars 50 Cent and his G-Unit cohorts. After performing a concert in an unnamed Middle Eastern country, 50 and his crew are paid via a diamond-encrusted skull. (Really.) But before the gang can leave and… I don’t know, stare at their sweet new bony reward, it’s stolen and 50 Cent has to fight to get it back. This involves a lot of desert levels, shooting, swearing, and hiding behind waist-high cover.

As part of a larger feature on canceled games, Blood On The Sand developer Darren Yeomans told NME that when development started on the shooter, it didn’t feature the famous rapper at all. Instead, for “over a year” the folks at Swordfish Studios, the company behind the game, worked on what they thought was going to end up being a Tom Clancy game.

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