Rapper 50 Cent to get richer with new video game

SAN FRANCISCO - Rapper 50 Cent likes to brag that he has been shot nine times and survived - but it remains to be seen if he can survive getting shot in a video game over and over again.

The iconic rapper and game publisher Vivendi Universal Games have teamed up on a new game, "50 Cent: Bulletproof."

Written by "Sopranos" Executive Producer Terry Winter, the game puts the rapper in the role of a crusader taking on crime families in the New York underworld.

Winter also wrote the screenplay for 50 Cent's upcoming film "Get Rich or Die Tryin,"' named for his hit album.

- REUTERS