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What Does A Marine Think Of Spec Ops: The Line’s Violent War-Critique?
It’s coming up on the end of the year, which means it’s time to start looking back. And amid the Kickstarter campaigns and DRM-debates that kept 2012 so interesting, one game keeps coming back up: The brutal Spec Ops: The Line. It was a clever game that despite its hum-drum third-person shooter trappings was also a surprisingly successful look inside the mind of a killer, and an at-times subversive critique of the military shooter genre.
Spec Ops’ Multiplayer Developer Defends Mode Called ‘Cancerous’ By The Game’s Designer
The studio responsible for the multiplayer component of Spec Ops: The Line, whose lead designer called it a “cancerous growth” foisted upon the game by publisher 2K Games, defended its work in a statement today.
The Full Story Of Spec Ops: The Line, From Audacious Storytelling To ‘Cancerous’ Publisher-Mandated Multiplayer
You may or may not have heard this already, but despite outward appearances, Yager’s third-person military shooter Spec Ops: The Line was a surprisingly artful, even audacious game. It wrestled with big ideas like player complicity in onscreen violence, military slaughter of civilians, post-traumatic stress disorder and insanity.
How To Kill Civilians In A War Game
Civilian casualties are rare in video games. Every real-life war results in a terrible loss of innocent life; collateral damage is a grim reality of battle. Yet most war video games play out across perfectly crafted arenas in which each “team” is clearly marked and civilians are nowhere to be found.
Kotaku Reviews Spec Ops: The Line
Spec Ops: The Line takes place beneath a sea of sand, deep within the Arabian Desert. In the game’s fiction, the once-opulent city of Dubai lays in ruins, stripped and wrecked by the wrath of nature. (And I mean: The hubris of this place! Maybe Dubai kind of had it coming.)
Spec Ops: The Line Multiplayer Pits Brother Against Brother Against Sand
How refreshing is it to have a tactical shooter set in Dubai without one side having to be some sort of terrorists? It’s The Exiles versus The Damned in Spec Ops: The Line‘s online multiplayer sandbox.
Dubai Turns Into Hell On Earth In This Spec Ops: The Line Trailer
Mass lynchings. Vultures feasting on unburied soldiers. Lots and lots of sand where it should not be. Things look way past effed up in the new story trailer for 2K Games’ military drama.
Spec Ops: The Line Deploys June 26, Preorders Get FUBAR’ed
Cheer up, soldier! 2K Games first foray into the military shooter genre hits retail on June 26 (June 29 internationally), and preorder customers receive a free upgrade to the premium edition in all its FUBAR glory.
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