14 DAY TRIAL // Activision's Call of Duty franchise is one of the biggest-selling series of all time, garnering the large corporation quite a lot of profit every year one of its iterations appears on the market. One of this year's biggest launches will definitely be Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the sequel to the critically acclaimed original.
But even though projected sales are very large, Activision is still keeping the hype train going up until November 10, when the game will arrive in stores across the world. Recently, according to famous rapper 50 Cent's webpage, the singer visited the Infinity Ward headquarters for an extended playing session with the development team of Modern Warfare 2 and alongside other famous artists, like Good Charlotte's Benji and Joel Madden.
Immediately after that announcement, Infinity Ward Community Manager and Communications Director Robert Bowling's Twitter page revealed that 50 Cent would also be lending his voice to one of the characters featured in the two multiplayer modes of the game, the online competitive one and the cooperative, Special Forces, one.
According to Bowling, 50 Cent will be “one of many squad voices,” so you should expect him to voice actions like reloading or shooting down the enemies. “He is one of quite a few casual cameos in the game, none of which I can name at this point,” Bowling continued. “Benji and Joel of Good Charlotte not being one of them. They're just good friends with Curtis and came along with him when he was here recently to check out his voice in the game.”
This isn't the first time the Call of Duty series features famous voice actors, as Kiefer Sutherland and Gary Oldman also lent their talents to the recent Call of Duty: World at War title, which was made by Treyarch and published last year. Don't forget that 50 Cent is already quite established in the video game industry, as he was the star of two full-fledged titles up until now, Bulletproof and Blood on the Sand.
Hopefully this venture will yield some great results and players will be more than happy to hear 50 on the virtual battlefield.