![]() Also, this is a mature game and deals with mature themes, you need to be prepared for that and frankly if you have problems with the concept of taking lives or looking at gore this is not the game for you. ![]() I cannot guarantee that you will like it, in fact, you may indeed despise the game but you will be affected by it. ![]() You can pick it up on Steam, and it comes on sale quite regularly, if you can’t find it you can also just watch a play through online, (though it is something that is best played by yourself) and if you are not good with shooters, there is an option that assists you, almost like a story mode. However, even though we will be talking about the game with full spoilers on, can I please ask if you have not played the game stop reading now and go play it if you have been at all interested it what I have said so far. But to do this, we are going full spoilers, I am only doing this because to talk about this game in any way shape or form is a spoiler, also let’s be honest, this game came out in 2012 so we are well past the one-year statute of limitations on spoilers. In this retrospective I am going to explain how this dissidence exists, why I both love and hate a game that is in many ways mechanically dull. Yet this semester when I have been teaching Media and War at University I have had many long conversations about this game and the profound impact it had on me and the impact it had (or should have had) on the genre. The controls were clunky, and even for its time the presentation felt old, enemies appearing from monster closets (or in this case monster shipping containers), the guns and action felt not as refined as its contemporaries, the level design had some issues ‘look a bunch of chest high walls, looks like we are going to have to fight now’ and it does not hold up as well on a second play through (which I did to put together this retrospective). It wasn’t technically impressive, the only really new thing was sand physics, which were, well something a bit new. Spec Ops: The Line was billed as a middle of the road shooter, which was released in 2012 to not much fanfare by its publisher.
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