![]() ![]() It should be, however, as that would be an extremely interesting twist. Noire, where you can make yes or no moral choices and move forward as those choices affect your gameplay, morality is not a gameplay feature in Spec Ops: The Line. You do come in contact with friendly faces and then you’ll have to make tough decisions that aren’t like other video games. ![]() Being able to scope out an enemy and assign your team to focus on them while you tear down other enemies helps a lot, especially when you discover all the disturbing and dark things happening behind the scenes. A great feature is assigning targets to your teammates. Your small team provides you help along the way. The city is a rough wasteland and requires aggressive self-defense to survive. You encounter various enemies as well, from rogue American soldiers who have abandoned their duties and attack on sight to insurgents/refugees running amuck. You experience a lot in this version of Dubai, there is a lot of variety and color changes in level design so every scene is fresh and has a distinct feeling. Spec Ops: The Line does a lot more than most shooters do though, as it makes the violence you are creating meaningful by cut scenes and actions that happen after battle most of the time your character is regretting what transpired. Thanks to games like Call of Duty and Battlefield for conditioning us to unreal battle practices, this games helps us deal with that and freshen things up a bit. I’ve had instances where I’d run out of bullets or got slaughtered and have to restart a level, which I appreciated. As ammo is limited and bullets hurt you and kill you quickly, strategy is a huge point in this game. Other innovative gameplay features include using your terrain as weapons (for example shooting out glass floors below snipers and unleashing sand on unexpecting soldiers that are looking to take you out). While this can be annoying, it can be forgiven. The hop over cover button is the same as the melee button, so occasionally instead of jumping over a box to advance or run to another cover point you are meleeing the box. This is your third person, shoot and cover game, with fun events, amazing AI and aggressive unpredictable situations that happen. Is the gameplay truly awe-inspiring? No, but it’s challenging which makes it extremely fun. While sometimes combat and running into cover can be inconsistent and buggy, this game makes up for it in terms of story. Dated graphics and rote shooting be damned, buy this game right now and play it to the end. From the loading screens to the best story since Bioshock (and the biggest twist, too) to the absolute genius of the multiple endings, this game is brutal, smart, and unapologetic. Second Opinion: This game is goddamn brilliant. Instead of being just a mind numbing run-and-gun game with no point, Spec Ops provides you with more substance. This is what makes this game so unique, it’s a game that makes you feel and be held accountable for what you do in-game. How you get to that breaking point is not up to you – however, what it means is entirely in your arena. Walker transforms from a cliché action hero character into someone you actually start to sympathize with, then develops into, well someone awful. You enter Dubai and are a part of a three-man rescue team as you start your adventure. Our lead point man on this adventure is Captain Martin Walker (who is voiced by Nolan North from the Uncharted series). The line between moral and immoral is put to the test and the lines are starting to gray, or forced to be grayed. Let’s just say you are put in a position of action and emotion. In the end your character is so physically, mentally and morally drained, they are put in a very different place then they started in. The thing is, it’s a situation that goes from being bad, to worse and just spirals out of control. After a crazy sand storm and near destruction of Dubai, it starts off with a quick recon to investigate a distress call and pickup a couple of stranded soldiers. That’s why this title seems to be refreshing Spec Ops: The Line is a different type of game. RELEASE DATE(S): June 26th, 2012 Amplified Conflict in Dubai Tests Your Sanity and Willĭoes anything good ever happen to anyone in this game? No, not really, not at all.
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