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Call of Duty: Black Ops is the seventh instalment of the Call of Duty series. This first-person shooter is an excellent game developed by Treyarch and n-Space and published by Activision and Square Enix.
The game is set in the years of the Cold War and features Alex Mason, special agent for the CIAs Special Activities Division. The game begins with Mason being interrogated by unknown captors about his previous missions. The semi-conscious Mason pulls up his memory about the past missions. The game is actually a series of his recollections and the missions are shown as a set of flashbacks between 1961 and 1968. Mason has his other friends for help and they include Woods, Bowman and Weaver. The team of special operatives then carry out a number of missions.
The action and sequence is very taut and thrilling, especially when playing in cooperative mode. The skill is in using stealth at moving quietly and using arms
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such as knives, crossbows with explosive ammunition and bolts. There are special vehicles too.
I give the game a 9 on a scale of 1 to10 for game play, control, storyline and graphics. The game is available for Xbox, PS3 and PC for around `3,300. Within 24 hours of going on sale, the game sold more than 7 million
copies. It is certainly worth a buy.
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War & Beyond
` 699
Special Price
Value Pack
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viewing pleasure. In Divided We Fall, based in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia, a childless couple agrees to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution. No Man’s Land is set in Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man’s land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap. In Blessed By Fire the suicide of an old soldier buddy brings up some old memories for an Argentinean man. Go ahead and watch all three!
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Arrk
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Singers:
Shafqat Amanat Ali, Zubeen Garg,
KS Chitra, Keerthi
Sagathia, Javed Ali
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Arrk is an album that is meant to revive the dying genre of sufi rock. Back in the 90s, Pakistani band Junoon ruled the airwaves with tracks like Sayonee and Azadi, but in later years, like Indi-pop, the genre depreciated rapidly and lost out to Bollywood’s ever widening palette. Aimed at the youth, sufi rock requires poetic lyrics and some mandatory guitar riffing to make it connect with its audience. Arrk has these conditions fulfilled. The album is not a showcase for any one singer, but a collection of artistes who still have faith in sufi rock as a viable way to express themselves. Composer Sujith Nalini Chellappan believes that any genre can be rekindled with the right impetus and opportunity; hence Arrk, an album to bring back sufi in the mainstream. The effort is admirable.
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