Ammo is scarce, so the player is encouraged to conserve ammo. Walker, the player can carry two weapons such as standard assault rifles, submachine guns, grenade launchers, shotguns, pistols, and sniper rifles. The game is played from a 3rd person perspective. It is later revealed that the CIA is covertly involved in the takedown of the 33rd. The soldiers are accused of committing various atrocities on civilians in order to maintain order. He later learns that they are holding hostage a squad of soldiers from the 33rd Battalion. The battalion was stationed in the city after the storms hit, and the last message from Konrad was an announcement that the evacuation was a complete failure.Īs the story begins, a group of insurgents engage Walker in a firefight. Civil society has all but collapsed in the formerly prosperous emirate as quiet chaos threatens to engulf everything else.Īs the player-controlled character, Walker arrives in a devastated Dubai to find out what really happened to the 33rd Battalion of the US Army and their commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel John Konrad who is believed to have gone in hiding. Most of the buildings are now nothing but crumbling hollow structures and the roads are littered with abandoned vehicles and dead bodies. The sandstorms have laid to waste the once magnificent city and turned it into an arid wasteland.
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Walker and his team land on Dubai after it has been hit by a series of sandstorms of catastrophic magnitude. The 3 form a Delta Force contingent sent on a reconnaissance mission by the US government. “Spec Ops: The Line” puts players in the sand-filled combat boots of Captain Martin Walker. “Spec Ops” hews closer to real life and makes it an emotional struggle to fire each shot.įor this reason alone, the game deserves closer scrutiny. In other games, the decision to take another life and eliminate the opposition can be very clear cut. The game was largely overshadowed by conventional shooters such as the formula-laden “Black Ops II.”Īlthough steeped in some of the conventions of the first/3rd person shooter genre, “Spec Ops: The Line’s” most stunning innovation is the inclusion of ambiguity and morality. Unlike high-profile military shooters like the “Call of Duty” and “Modern Warfare” series, “Spec Ops: The Line” almost fell through the cracks when it was released in 2012.
“Spec Ops: The Line” is the latest game in the series for the current generation of consoles and the PC. The series went on a decade-long hiatus after the release of “Spec Ops: Airborne Commando” for the PlayStation in 2002.
The early games were notable for their realistic approach while making important contributions to the tactical shooter genre. MANILA, Philippines – The Spec Ops series of military-themed shooters goes as far back as 1998.
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