No political message to new 50 Cent title

No Iraq references, we're told

Despite some critics describing the new 50 Cent game, 'Blood on the Sand', as Fiddy in Iraq, developer Swordfish assure that there is no political dimension to the new action title; despite the obvious geographic significance of the title's setting.

"It’s fictional, it’s an ‘everyman’s war zone’, is the way we describe it," offers director Julian Widdows. "It’s an arcade game, so it needs to be implacable in many senses. There’s no geo-political context to this game.

"It’s clearly a crime story. The arch bad guy - we can’t tell you who it is but it’s a pretty high profile American actor - will be instantly recognisable. But he’s an American. The first key bad guy that you encounter, who you’re actually working for at this point, is an American. The guards you shoot in the third act are all Russian. And so it’s an international crime syndicate which is operating in this everyman’s war zone. It’s the hood beyond the hood. It’s a crime story, a gangland story."

Geddit?

By Luke Guttridge