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  • Spec Ops: The Line

    It’s story is based on Heart of Darkness, the same book Apocalypse Now was based on, so they share some commonalities.

    Gameplay wise it’s a pretty standard 3rd person cover shooter, nothing really memorable.

    But man that game fucks with your head and expectations of a shooter. While you mow down hordes of fellow American soldiers who have gone AWOL with their commander, the tone of the game constantly shifts ever so slightly. You lose people from your team, you get to be more and more vengeful and violent. And at first you think nothing of it, because that’s almost every shooter I’ve played.

    But they let you see yourself in a mirror, so to say.

    I think the first time it really hit me was when on one of the loading screen tooltips, that usually said stuff like “You can throw grenades back.” or “Flank your enemies.” it just said “Do you feel like a hero yet?”. Felt like I’d been punched in the gut. It gets more and more intense from there and I can’t really describe it all, because it’s been a decade or so and it was mostly the sum of a lot of smaller things.

    I know some people called it corny and pretentious but it really stuck with me.