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Spec Ops: The Line
Mark Serrels
Today Brendan Keogh releases his book Killing is Harmless: A Critical Reading of Spec Ops: The Line. Killing is Harmless is one of the first books of its kind, a 50,000 word look at a video game — why is it important, why is it significant? Brendan describes the book…
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 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.
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