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Uncharted 2 to be set in India?

Bale Fire | April 20, 2008 | Blog | Playstation 2 Playstation 3 Company

Uncharted, one of the best games of 2007 for the PS3 is just crying for a sequel and it appears a Easter egg (or a egg of some kind) has possibly revealed what the discoverer believes is the location for the second game. The secret treasure found in the game bares a startling resemblance to the precursor orbs in the Jak and Daxter games (Naughty Dog's previous franchise) and when translated reads "Naughty Dog Manmad"

A Google search brings up manmad as a city in India. Coincidence?

It means something thats for sure

If you find the "strange relic" treasure in the game, you will quickly recognize it to be a precursor orb from the Jak games. There are strange symbols wrapped around the orb. These symbols correspond to letters of the alphabet as already known from the Jak games. So I used this to decipher it

The top row of the egg says "naughty dog".

The bottom row with bigger symbols says "manmad".

At first I thought, what the hell is a manmad? So i googled it.

It seems that Manmad is the name of a city in India.

It kinda makes sense. I don't know much about India but it sounds like there could be treasure in there somewhere.

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jmac353 | April 20, 2008

I'm down .
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StarJet | April 20, 2008

Manmad? I live so close to India and have never heard of it. Any Indians here on neo?
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  Subzer0 | April 20, 2008
  
  Storm and Krunal as far as I know.
  
  Yes Storm, I know! xD
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    Slumpy monkey | April 20, 2008
    
    I am indian. w00t.
    
    lol
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    Storm | April 21, 2008
    
    How do you find out these things, Sub? xD
    
    Sure do hope it is set in India, bring more popularity there.
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tidus04 | April 20, 2008

This would be a great location to follow what they have already portrated as it is quite different from what you find of games these days.
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Subzer0 | April 20, 2008

Sounds cool. Which ever country its set on, I'm sure it will turn out to be great just like its predecessor.
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Linkin Park Fan | April 20, 2008

I didn't know storm was, I knew krunal was.

Anyways, I still think china would be a better setting. Unless we get to go to the himalayas.
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Red 9 | April 20, 2008

Manmad sounds like a misspelling of Manmade.
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Final Blade | April 20, 2008

_{Interesting, all i have to say...}
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tallteen86 | April 21, 2008

Lol Red 9, I was thinking, 'did they miss a letter?'. But yeah, it makes sense that India would be the next game's location. It has plenty of unexplored ruins, I'm sure. Some secret tribes and stuff....

I only just got Uncharted though, so I'm gonna beat that first

Awesome relic though. I want to get that Precursor orb type relic Jak and Daxter: The Precursor's Legacy was my first PS2 game Awesome game (graphics were awesome too, at the time)++