Samrat Sharma

gamer/geek/dreamer

Namaste

Sam' house of a thousand mindfscks welcomes you. What I do here is none of your business, but derive as much pleasure as you will.

Archive for the 'videogames' Category

I am a very shooty kind of guy, I used to think. I like being plonked in the first person view, seeing my burly forearms and wrists, and shoot things that move.
If it looks angry, shoot it. Heck if it moves, shoot it. You know the sort? I always thought that is what I [...]

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Charted!

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

A good narrative is built up of superbly crafted moments, and a structured, well honed pace. Sure, there are many more things that make a good movie or a game – tone, characters, heck even songs.

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A S3rious place in a S3rious world

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Batman. Arguably the biggest comic book character, undeniably the most popular superhero, and a franchise with a varied and mixed mythology, with interpretations as many as there are different psychologies.
There is something that makes serious comic book authors indulge in their most psychologically out there fantasies when they write the bat. After all, aren’t they [...]

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Official Site: here
Update:
New screenshots and info in Game Informer, out now. Scans available on the interwebs here.

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What’s wrong with Killzone 2?

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Somewhere between Edge’s Killzone 2 7/10 review and its impending release to the teeming masses, the intarwubs caught fire.
PSX extreme (in a turn of events too ironic to count, I refuse to link to ‘em), went ahead and published a piece admonishing Edge’s review as unworthy of the game, and their score an attempt at [...]

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