It’s clear that the dark narrative mixed with sensational sound and voice acting meant that Yager Development (the developers) took an extra step in ensuring that the player was giving a harrowing and memorable experience that would leave you talking about it for years to come. As Walker and his team traverse the desert, it soon becomes clear that not all is clear, and the lines of good and evil are blurred to a point where you, the player, will be questioning whether you’re doing the right thing. Nolan North voicing the gruff captain Martin Walker, leading a Delta team consisting of Lieutenant Adams and Staff Sergeant Lugo, ordered by the US Army to do recon and bring in John Konrad (one of many nods to Hearts of Darkness), commander of the 33rd Battalion, lost in Dubai after sandstorms destroyed the city.
Spec Ops: The Line opens generically enough. So why play this game? Because quite simply, love it or hate it, there is simply nothing quite like this.
Maybe as a gamer you don’t want to be tricked. Any passerby would glance at this online and assume it to be a pseudo rip-off of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and subsequently Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, complete with a generic third person shooter element and cover system.Īnd thus the game has already tricked you, the first of many narrative and visual tricks The Line will pull. Spec Ops: The Line is really nothing at first glance. In case you haven’t played it yet or read anything about this game, there will be mild spoilers in this review, in particular a scene roughly halfway through the game. Yagor Development / 2K Games / PS3-360-PC / RRP $35(EB Games)Īs a first review I decided to tackle a personal favorite of mine from 2012, Spec Ops: The Line. Spec Ops: The Line / June 26th 2012 / Version Played: PC
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