This is the same for enemies too, with only the heavily armed soldiers surviving a clip loaded into their body. Cover is vital because Walker can die in a few hits from some well-placed shots. It’s great for quick escapes when you’re hunted down by enemy soldiers. Holding B while sprinting towards a wall, or if you’re crouched behind it, will automatically make you vault over. Cover can be snapped to by simply tapping the A button. If you’ve played any third-person shooter that features cover mechanics, you’ll know exactly how this game works. The speech is scripted, but with a game like this telling such a gripping and constructed story, I didn’t mind hearing the dialogue again after respawning at a checkpoint.Īll I’ve done is talk about the story and characters, but that doesn’t mean Spec Ops: The Line is a slouch when it comes to gameplay. The banter between squad mates makes you feel part of the family. This game isn’t shy at putting you right in the middle of your decided outcome, and it can be quite harrowing at times.Ĭaring for the characters is helped along with a well written story, great dialogue and quality voice acting from the likes of Nolan North (another game to add to his ever growing list), Omid Abtahi and actor/comedian Christopher Reid. These choices really dig down into your soul, with one scene making me question what I’d just done, then feeling sorry for the virtual people who were in these circumstances. It’s a no win situation, so the question is asked “what is the lesser of the two evils?” One example is when you’re forced to execute a civilian who broke the law or a soldier who was chasing the lawbreaker, but killed his family in the process. Unforeseen choices are forced on the player and the outcome never seems to make anything better. It gets grim, nasty and shows the full implications of what war can do to the people wrapped up in the conflict, be it civilians or military personal. Yager has done well to adapt the story into a modern setting. It’s inspired by the Heart of Darkness novella, or if you aren’t a book reader, the film Apocalypse Now (which was inspired by Heart of Darkness) might ring some bells. This is something most shooters don’t even try to do. No member of the unit is safe from the physical and mental breakdown that occurs here. This game encapsulates you in an engrossing story that lets you see its characters evolve due to the plot’s consequences. Spec Ops: The Line is more than a simple brain dead shooter. The United States decides to send in these three men to carry out reconnaissance and confirm the status of Dubai, Konrad and any survivors. Two weeks before Walker and his two Delta Operators, Adams and Lugo, are involved, a transmission is heard from Colonel Konrad explaining the evacuation was a failure. Dubai was damaged so much that the United Arab Emirates agreed to declare Dubai a no-man’s land, blocking entry by anyone. He offered to help with relief efforts, but was deserted when an order was given to abandon the city. As this was happening, Colonel John Konrad was returning from Afghanistan with his 33 rd Battalion, U.S Army. The game sets the backdrop by explain that six months prior to the beginning of the game a giant sandstorm ravaged across Dubai. I have to admit that at times like this I’m glad my initial view of the game was wrong. I didn’t know all that much about it and because of the military setting I wasn’t expecting anything great to come out of it. In all honesty, I went into 2K Games’ latest entry in the Spec Ops series with a bit of a meh attitude. I’ve got nothing against these games I just wish developers would change the themes and settings to something that isn’t part of this “genre standard” anymore. This generation of gaming has sure seen its fair share of first and third-person modern military shooters.
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