Call of Duty Inspired By Indian Armed Forces?
Of course I am just jesting.
For all I know, it could be the other way around. However, during a recent trip to Ranikhet, I happened to pass by the training camps of the Kumaon Resident, which is one of the fiercest and toughest regiments in the country.
There I managed to take this photo:
While the sentence on the wall translates roughly to “One Shot One Kill” or literally to “One Bullet One Enemy”, it was the paintings that caught my attention. These are uncannily similar to the icons that represent what you see in the “Call of Duty” and many other games to depict whether you are standing, crouching, or crawling.
Here is a screen grab from “Call of Duty 3” to show what I am talking about. Do you see the little icon in the lower right hand corner of this image. Compare this to the right most painting in the photograph above.
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January 4th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
oh.. Kumaon Regiment.
January 5th, 2009 at 11:06 am
yes, the game could have been inspired from real-life symbols.
January 5th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Yes. I just found this to be too funny.
January 7th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Isn’t Ranikhet a great place? And I crossed that field as well, after trekking down the hill…..saw a bunch of ‘rangruts’ with almost-shaven heads there.
Cheers,
Quirky Indian
January 7th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Ranikhet is awesome QI. I loved it. Yup, those guys were doing crawling drills when we saw them.
January 10th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Ranikhet is awesome…. Pupu, Bhattu, TusharK & I had made a trip there some years ago…
January 10th, 2009 at 11:58 am
@Sayan – yes I know. I was at Pupu’s place before a couple of days before we left and we were remembering that trip…
January 10th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
did he tell you the highlight of the trip was the leech incident
January 10th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
yes he did