I understand that people need to sell their game and sometimes use superlatives in order to do so. The game director of the to be killer app 50 Cent game claims that this will be the next greatest thing.

We wanted to do for the shooter genre what Burnout did for racers,” he says in an interview with Xbox World. “What Diablo did for RPGs. We wanted to take all that makes the genre fun and exaggerate it

Is this guy for real? If a bunch of rappers shooting their way across the middle east trying to find an unclaimed diamond they were promised for a gig is going to set the new standard, I may as just well set fire to my PS3 right now.

[via OXM]