Gung-ho grunts they toss jibes and insults like it’s nothing. Walker, Adams, and Lugo begin the game as your run of the mill soldiers. Where Spec Ops: The Line overcomes this hurdle is in its character design.
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Obviously, there are exceptions like the Gears of War series which was successful by virtue of its brutal violence, rich world, and increasingly complex characters. Remember SOCOM Navy Seals? Yeah me neither. Few games in this sub-genre have had any lasting impact. You can almost feel the creak of joints when the character is allowed stand up straight. Most of the time is spent watching the player character waddle around the battlefield.
Third-person-shooter games suffer from the unique affliction of being both precise and lumbering creations. Will the player mercy kill a traitorous CIA agent or let him burn to death? Of course, the drudgery of cover-based shooting hampers all this.Īim. Does the player kill the civilian that stole precious water or the soldier who committed murder? If the player does not choose both will die. The lines begin to blur and the impossible decisions, fueled by Konrad over the radio, begin to mount. Upon closer inspection Walker realises he has unintentionally burnt 47 civilians to death. In the early missions of the game Walker targets what he believes to be a crowd of aggressive 33rd soldiers with white phosphorous, a highly flammable kind of ordnance. There are no heroes in Spec Ops: The Line. Walker is a good soldier and competent leader but he is no hero. Walker’s idealised version of Konrad sees the team take the mission further than they should leading to morally grey player choices on the way. Things are not as they seem in Dubai as the city has broken down into civil war between the so-called “Damned 33rd” led by Colonel John Konrad and the CIA-backed natives. A Delta Force team consisting of Captain Martin Walker, First Lieutenant Alphonso Adams, and Staff Sergeant John Lugo is dispatched to find the source of the 33rd’s last transmission. Six months before Spec Ops begins sandstorms bury Dubai trapping thousands of citizens, migrant workers, and the soldiers of the US Army’s 33 rd Battalion behind an impenetrable storm wall. In its depiction of war as hell Spec Ops: The Line refuses heroes their natural place in a video game. But heroes don’t belong in hell not even the metaphorical kind. From Darksiders to DOOM video games have put heroes in literal hell in a variety of interesting and artistic ways. His thousand-yard stare tells the player all they need to know. Against a backdrop of a crumbling Dubai a burnt and bleeding soldier looks at something far away. “Do you feel like a hero yet?” asks the loading screen.
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