Spec Ops The Line (4.25gb)

ABOUT GAME

The game takes place in U.A.E. city of Dubai six months after a series of massive sand storms hit the city and effectively cut it off from the rest of the world.  Before the city went dark however a colonel by the name of John Konrad volunteered his regiment, the 33^rd, to help evacuate the city.  Unfortunately things didn’t go as planned and the regiment effectively deserted the army after Konrad refused an order to abandon the city.  The last anyone had heard from the 33^rd, Konrad was about to attempt to lead a caravan of people out of the city.  Two weeks before the game starts a message comes out of the city, telling of the failure of the caravan and the deaths of many.  The army decides to covertly send a Delta Force team to investigate.  What they find, much to their surprise is civil war in the city between the 33^rd, led by Konrad, and armed civilians, armed and led by various CIA agents and the recon team is forced to fight for their lives and find out just what the hell happened within the city and get the survivors out.

            And I have to say that when they promoted this game for its Heart of Darknesstype story, they were not falsely advertising.  This is probably the only shooter out there that I can honestly say has a really intelligent plot, full of twist that I didn’t see coming, digging into intense themes with heavy visuals to compliment it, taking a lot of inspiration from Apocalypse Now! without directly ripping off it.  While the plots of games likeModern Warfare, Black Ops, Halo, and Gears aren’t horrible by any means, they aren’t exactly what I would call thought provoking.  This is a game that really digs into themes that no other developer that I know of has ever addressed and contains really dark plot elements to compliment it, and to be honest I’m honestly surprised that the game hasn’t gained more controversy over it.  And believe me, when I say these elements and themes are dark they are DARK, often digging into what is acceptable for the military to do and what is not.  Whereas other games would probably draw a distinct line on this and tell the gamer what is right and wrong matter Spec Ops does not, often putting you into “us or them” type situations and/or revenge dilemmas and leaves the gamer to choose what he or she thinks is ultimately right or wrong without being preachy about it.  A prime example of this is the question over who the real villains are.  You have the military, which are apparently a bunch of tyrants, the CIA led civilians who are constantly being intentionally led to horrible deaths by their leaders and then there is your group who constantly seem to make situations worse for both sides as the game goes on.

            There are, however, two major issues I have with the plot and I can’t help but turn my head at these things in confusion.  The first thing is that I’m not really sure about the whole “city being destroyed by sand storms” thing.  Now I openly admit that I don’t know how sand storms work but I just find it a little hard to believe that sand storms can constantly hit a city like that for months on end, effectively cutting it off from the rest of the world and making it all but uninhabitable.  The other, and the bigger one for me, is the ending.  I don’t want to spoil too much for you but it’s one of those weird, narrative shattering endings and, quite frankly, I didn’t think the ending needed it and it just raised so many questions and confuse the hell out me.

            But all around the storyline of this game was fantastic.  The situations, the themes, the atmosphere, and the way everything was built up was just incredible.  To put it simply, more videogames need to follow this game’s example in how to tell a story.  If for no other reason than this, the game is worth checking out for its story because it is incredible.

So, did Spec Ops: The Line deliver on all of its promises?  Well, in the story and character department, yes.  It does for videogames what Apocalypse Now! did for films and what The Heart of Darkness did for books in the plot, themes and character department and that’s where the strength of this game lies; in the sheer darkness of all the things it shows.  Unfortunately the gameplay really drags the experience down and in this regard, it feels like it was developed back in 2008 or something, (four years can be a lifetime for games), with mechanics that were innovative back then but are more than a little old now.  I really wanted to like this game a lot more and give it a high rating and recommendation.  At worst it’s a solid rental for a campaign playthrough and at best it’s worth the 50 bucks that it costs on STEAM but I would wait for the price to drop a little more before making any decisions on buying it.  Ultimately, the story is worth playing through but the lack of innovation in gameplay just drags the whole thing down and that’s my final word on this game.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

OS: Windows XP SP3

Software: Steam Client

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 Equivalent

Memory: 2 GB RAM

Hard Drive: 6 GB free

Video Memory: 256 MB

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 / ATI Radeon HD 2600XT

Sound Card: DirectX Compatible

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