It has been awhile since I played a game that stuck with me like that.Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. Spec Ops is a game where no matter how good your intentions are and what you do, you can’t really win. Not because the game sucks, but because I was disturbed. Playing on the hardest difficulty will prolong the game, but that is because you are getting killed often and it takes about 10-15 seconds for the game to reload the checkpoint.Īfter playing Spec Ops once, I wanted to go back and play again, but there was a part of me that didn’t want to experience it again. I beat the game twice in 3 days, first on normal and then on the second hardest difficulty. Spec Ops is on the short end with the campaign. Because Gears of War uses one button for this, I would hit the wrong button and find myself standing like a sore thumb in the middle of a firefight. You can run towards and slide into cover, but you had to use a different button to leap over or switch cover. It is similar to Gears of War, but with a few differences that cost me my life on more than one occasion. As someone mentioned before, the cover system isn’t the best. Game play is also good, but there are some weaknesses. As always, he does a great job as well as the rest of the cast.
The voice actor from the Uncharted series voices the main character. The gunfire, explosions, and the enemy chatter are all done very well. The music is on the sparse side, but only plays at appropriate times instead of buzzing constantly in the background. It is definitely one of the better looking apocalyptic worlds I have played in recent memory.
I felt the developers did a great job simulating what a large metropolitan area would end up like if an endless wave of sand storms ravaged the area. Those games though deal with supernatural themes, Spec Ops the Line deals with very real themes that anyone could realistically face and to me, that makes it even more effective. Games like the original Splatterhouse series, Silent Hill, and Dead Space are a few that come to mind messed with my head. But there are some games that for some reason reach into the dark nether regions of the soul. Great example of a story driven game that leaves a lasting impressionĪs long as I have been playing video games, I have thought I have seen it all and I am not usually disturbed or affected by a game. The premium edition includes the "Fubar Pack," which features bonus multiplayer content: double experience during the first week of online play, AK-47 unlock at rank one, officer class unlock at rank one, and exclusive accessories for character customization. The sand-filled city poses unusual dangers, but also opportunities for special operatives who can hide in the obscuring winds or smother enemies beneath a triggered avalanche.Customers who pre-order Spec Ops: The Line will have their game upgraded to a premium edition at no extra cost. The players' objective is to find the missing soldiers and - if possible - bring them back home. Konrad's unit has now been isolated by the sandstorms and is feared lost. Army, most of the metropolis was successfully evacuated, but Colonel John Konrad remained behind with his squad. For opulent Dubai, the apocalypse is now, as massive windstorms have buried the city beneath millions of tons of sand. Battles take place in an abandoned desert city, where players' efforts are complicated by sand that covers buildings and blows through the streets. The narrative poses challenges, as well, in a progression of desperate circumstances and lose-lose moral dilemmas.
In the unflinching style of its PC predecessors, The Line challenges players to accomplish missions through third-person squad tactics surveillance, stealth, and bloody firefights. Elite counter-terrorism agents lead the way into a modern-military heart of darkness as the gritty Spec Ops series returns to action in 2012.