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Jason Moyer on 21/6/2012 at 05:58

So you didn't watch the video you linked to then?

Sulphur on 21/6/2012 at 06:10

I thought it was mostly mediocre crap, to be honest. It doesn't seem to be inspired by anything much, apart from being set in a city besieged by sand and waist-high walls.

The shooting's about competent, the dialogue and narrative wasn't. True, you can't judge the entire story on the two little slices the demo serves you, but if that's what the rest of the game's going to be like, it's got more rough edges than all the sand in Dubai can paper down.

Koki on 21/6/2012 at 07:25

Quote Posted by Jason Moyer

So you didn't watch the video you linked to then?

I did, but for some reason it didn't even occur to me the final/PC version will be TPP. Brainfart I guess.

Shadow on 23/6/2012 at 14:53

Played the demo, seems like it's basically a poor man's Gears of Duty. Not all that amazingly interested, to be honest.

N'Al on 26/6/2012 at 13:06

Well, (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-06-26-spec-ops-the-line-review) sounds like it ain't half bad, actually. More importantly, it seems to do the Heart of Darkness type story quite well, to an extent.

Angel Dust on 26/6/2012 at 13:39

Sweet, a few more reviews like that one and I'm going to pick this up.

pdenton on 28/6/2012 at 07:09

I picked the game up on launch...happy to answer any questions you might have if you're in limbo deciding on whether to get it. I'm currently on chapter 7 so I want to finish the game before passing complete judgement on it but so far:

-shooting is standard. it's functional but unremarkable. weapons feel like they have some weight but again you won't be blown away by anything (at least so far...).

-cover system is really easy to use and I haven't had nearly as much frustration as some reviewers have.

-the setting and color palette are refreshingly unique and vibrant. despite a pretty oppressively bland opening, the game really takes on a style and atmosphere of its own after the first chapter.

-the game is brutal as advertised. i found myself feeling sick after shooting an American in the gut and watching him bleed out on the floor. there's something really unnerving about shooting American soldiers (interesting since we have no problem shooting Arabs or Russians). there's one sequence involving white phosphorous that was particularly disturbing but I won't say anything more. it really feels like a marriage of a standard CoD game and something like Silent Hill.

-Spec Ops feels like an experiment...I worry that I'm going to become desensitized to all the shocking moments the game has so far conveyed, and conveyed so well. But we'll see. So far, the game has succeeded in telling a gritty storyline that genuinely feels like it's trying to show that war is hell and faithfully follow the descent into madness arc that Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now pulled off so well.

I'll follow up once I finish it...also? Multiplayer is mostly shit. But I'm assuming none of you were intrigued by that aspect of it....

zajazd on 28/6/2012 at 20:10

Demo on ps3 was great except that beginning with helicopters, how deja vuous was that. Gara get pc version now and have sexi time with it.

Malf on 29/6/2012 at 20:55

So Steam has it listed for £29.99, but (http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/gb/en/pc/games/action/spec-ops-the-line/) GreenManGaming are selling Steam keys for £24.99 if this has piqued anyone else's interest.

Shadowcat on 30/6/2012 at 07:33

Quote Posted by Angel Dust

Sweet, a few more reviews like that one and I'm going to pick this up.

Alec Meer at RPS was impressed:
(http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/06/29/spec-ops-review-pc/)

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the Dead Man-esque twangy guitar stuff that plays elsewhere is aces though

Ooh, nice (also all the encouragement I need to go watch Dead Man again; it's been too long.)