Where Spec Ops: The Line returns to normalcy and the standard conventions is in its gameplay.
And it's likely an experience you will keep private, as there's not a single choice worth gloating about. There's still some melodrama present in the script, but for the most part the game was not designed to replicate an epic Hollywood blockbuster, but rather make it extremely personal. This makes Spec Ops as real as it gets for a warfare shooter. Also, you're given little time to converse with your conscience and try to intellectually reason out your decisions they have to come from the gut. Thus reloading a checkpoint to choose the alternate route will not give any indication as to whether it was the right one. The life and death decisions do not deliver any consequences instantly, but rather impact the outcome much further into the campaign. You are tasked with difficult choices that present themselves swiftly and offer you no direction as to which is the right one. Though not his original intent, Walker finds himself in the middle of the conflict as he tries to be the hero. The scene continuously becomes grimmer as you witness the graphic extent of violence against the former residents of Dubai and your countrymen. You soon realize that you're on your own, unable to trust anyone. CIA operatives are opposing them, but you're unsure of their agenda as well. The 33rd has gone rogue, massacring civilians without cause. After an unexpected attack from local insurgents, the plot very quickly becomes twisted, and those you were out to help will ultimately become the enemy. After receiving a distress call from Colonel John Konrad, commander of the 33rd Infantry charged with evacuating Dubai after the catastrophe, you lead your three-man Delta force through the storm wall for recon.
You play as Captain Martin Walker, leading a pair of squad mates: Sergeant Lugo, your scout and tactical officer, and Lieutenant Adams, who handles the heavier work. The sandstorms haven't ceased either, and will continue to impact your campaign through the sand dune city, sprawling beneath abandoned and teetering skyscrapers that jut out toward the heavens. The setting is Dubai, after cataclysmic sandstorms have engulfed the city. The choices you make will gnaw at your heart, making it an impactful experience, a true sign that justice was done with the story. Though loose with controls and nothing completely transforming in the gameplay department, the mental journey you are taken through with disturbingly realistic possibilities makes Spec Ops: The Line a shooter that you don't just put down and forget. Instead of a global threat with international conflicts or campaigns against terrorist organizations where you triumphantly emerge the world's hero, Spec Ops maintains a narrow focus and delves into the psyche to tug at your most morbid of emotions. German developer Yager did quite a surprising thing with Spec Ops: The Line: They gave us something different from the common shooter fodder we're used to.
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