It has been rightly accused of being anvilicious, crude, without mercy, railroading you into situations and then guilt tripping you for it. All this is secondary to the experience of the thing, the fact it demands you look at what your own hobby might imply, the fact it raises questions that we, in defence of our treasured media, frequently take completely for granted. The graphics are just about passable, though the vistas and environments will blow your mind from time to time. The actual gameplay is so-so anyone who's played Gears of War will be right at home, Halo and Co D fans will adapt quickly. This game can perhaps be seen as a masterful piece of introspection. This game starts grey and goes pitch black. There will not be a 'beacon of hope' that offers an unambiguous gleam of light. In it, you will be pointed to and accused of horrendous atrocities. Use the pile driver."Īstute readers will note that as a (paraphrased) quote from Winston Churchill, and Yaeger certainly subscribe to it in this brutal, harsh, tirade against modern 'hero fantasy' gaming. "If you have a point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. The truth is, your characters never really did have a choice, because this was the nature of their medium. You were the one who wanted to see the game to the end. You were the one who wanted to have fun by shooting everything in sight. You were the one controlling the main characters. In the end, the game's question to the player is: How complicit were you in what happened? But you're characters can't do that, because they're in a game where progression is based on the increasingly immoral act of killing. The moral, right call would've called for back up, pulled out, tried to negotiate. You usually won't notice this because you're violence is rewarded and praised, but in Spec Ops: The Line, it becomes increasingly clear that butchering your way through the game might not be the best idea. For all the strategic possibilities military shooters provide you, in the end, your only means to engage the "enemy" is to kill them. In fact, Spec Ops: The Line highlights this aspect of military shooters in general. While most military shooters make you revel in your capacity for destruction, this game makes you grow to fear it. The violence they both witness and perpetrate breaks them down physically and emotionally until they turn into savage, vengeful killers. Your characters are still death incarnate, but each shattered life takes a toll on their psyche. Spec Ops: The Line does not make its violence pretty.
The main targets being the sanitized, guilt-free violence and the idea of player agency, or lack thereof in military shooters However, the story is a thorough and insightful deconstruction of the modern military shooter.
If you played a buttload of third-person shooters, the mechanics might feel a little stale (I don't play that many TPS's, so maybe that's why I enjoyed the game so much despite the gameplay being "average").
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