Since SO:TL is more concerned with the emotional and mental degradation of its protagonist than how much of a gun-totin’ badass he is, I would posit that this game is the best possible candidate for a war game that doesn’t need to be shackled to one of these macho, hyper-aggressive genres. This is good news for fans of those genres, but it’s especially disappointing for this game. In a world where Gears of War and Call of Duty exist, a game company simply cannot ignore the chance to market a third-person over-the-shoulder or first-person shooter. And let me tell you, you spend a shit-ton of time in SO:TL shooting exactly the same guys in exactly the same way. But no, this is not a perfect world, and no company has the balls to sell a game about army dudes unless it is primarily a shooting game. The gameplay would not be the centerpiece, but a tool for enhancing the player’s experience of the story. SO:TL, in a perfect world, would be in no easily quantifiable genre. SO:TL is hamstrung right out of the gate by the childish money-first philosophy of the games industry. To be fair, most of this isn’t even developer Yager Development’s fault. please do not let this be the one thing you take away from this article). Sure, it’s the same amount of turd in both dishes, but wouldn’t you be so much more pissed that your juicy, perfectly cooked steak got ruined? If there’s one thing you take away from this article, let it be that SO:TL is like a turd-covered steak (n.b. It’s enraging to an extent that a turd-covered PB&J couldn’t hope to match. Playing SO:TL is like ordering a fancy steak dinner only for it to come with with a turd log steaming on top. So where were we? If I recall, I was bemoaning the fact that Spec Ops: The Line (or SO:TL to save my oh-so-delicate typing hands) should be one of the best games of all time, and would be were it not for its hair-pullingly stupid flaws.
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The following is part two in an ongoing series about recent video game release Spec Ops: The Line, and how/why it comes frustratingly close to perfection, only to fall short. "Seen anything cool?" asks the Spec Ops producer as we file into his comfortable little gamescom prison.Culture How Gaming Almost Peaks In “Spec Ops: The Line” (Pt. The Spec Ops man tries to look happy about this news, but you can tell it's not his favourite answer.
The stunning BioShock Infinite demo is a tough act to follow, but Spec Ops: The Line has a go anyway. We begin with Captain Nolan North (sorry, Martin Walker) and two of his Delta pals inching through the crushed and fractured interior of a Dubai skyscraper. Walker's in Dubai to find Colonel Konrad, the former leader of a local training camp. Konrad has taken over the city in the aftermath of a faintly apocalyptic sandstorm which has otherwise consumed it. Walker and colleagues give us a brief sit-rep. The city's a warzone, with looters and Konrad's men in violent competition for loot and territory. The Delta chaps need to find Konrad but they also have to contend with Gould, the man who was sent in to find him first. Off they trot.įirst they need to get out of this building - a collapsed hotel - so they make their way down a staircase into the lobby, pausing on the way to admire a pair of gigantic jewel-encrusted giraffes, which tower over a cramped but lush little garden imprisoned beneath a circle of shiny glass.Īs they cross the floor there's a rumbling above and a bit of sand breaks through the ceiling, along with the tumbling, flailing body of a soldier.
He lands with a crunch, leaving an impressive snowflake of cracks and a pool of blood on the glass. One minute later and we're outside on a highway, still not shooting anybody, but somebody's getting some action in - there's a big firefight going on in a nearby street that we're overlooking, and one of Walker's men identifies Gould issuing orders to other soldiers as they engage a rival force. As we watch, a helicopter reinforces them but then takes a hit and rakes the face of a nearby office building before exploding. Things then get grisly as we march down the highway and see a soldier hanged from a street light.
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