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Julian Widdows, game director on 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, has dismissed suggestions the title is set in the Middle East.
Speaking at last week's Sierra showcase event Widdows said, "It's an everyman's war zone. It's a pastiche of war zones, for want of a better way of describing it.
"Yes, there are definitely Eastern influences in parts of the game, but there are also Western influences. From day one the art team wanted to create something that could have been anywhere."
As a result, Blood on the Sand features elements from the Baltic states, Cuba and ancient Persia, amongst others. But what about the title?
"Well, yes, Blood on the Sand does suggest it's somewhere sandy," Widdows said. "That's the subtitle that was chosen with the marketing teams in the US. It's pretty difficult to create a pastiche of a war zone without some Eastern influence, but it's not a middle eastern setting - that's not what we wanted to do."
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Mentalist(air)
28/04/08 @ 13:18
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Since when is Cuba a contemporary war zone?
It didn't look too war-torn when i was there in january. |
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sadakos_fury
28/04/08 @ 13:21
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the plot of this game is beyond hilarious.
in fact, it's all the way round to being unfunny again. i'm expecting chris morris to pop his head in and own up to having a laugh at us all. |
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PearOfAnguish
28/04/08 @ 13:46
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Yeah, it's not the middle east, it's just another place with lots of sand and middle eastern architecture.
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kangarootoo
28/04/08 @ 14:24
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Sack of bollox.
Maybe it is supposed to be set in a mix of the middle east, Cuba and the Baltic States.... except it doesn't look anything LIKE Cuba or the Baltics. From the previous article. "The story takes place in a fictitious Middle Eastern country where 50 Cent and G-Unit are doing a gig. But the promoter runs out of money, so he has to give them a diamond-encrusted skull as payment." Hmmm. |
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PearOfAnguish
28/04/08 @ 15:53
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Why are they being so cagey? This is only going to appeal to 15 year old Americans, so just call it 50 Cent: Raghead Shooting Gallery and be done with it.
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"Why are they being so cagey? This is only going to appeal to 15 year old Americans, so just call it 50 Cent: Raghead Shooting Gallery and be done with it."
Julian Widdows: "50 Cent: Raghead Shooting Gallery is not about shooting just arabs, rather it will be the wholesale slaughter of a pastiche of different types of ragheads; including arabs, persians, sikhs and other assorted rag headed peoples of this world." |
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MakyoDetector
28/04/08 @ 17:40
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It's an amalgam of all demonized ethnicities they're shooting at. How refreshing! I'm so buying this game now.
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barnard666
29/04/08 @ 01:03
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I am fairly sure it was supposed to be iraq...perhaps they realized how insensitive this was.
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