Spec Ops: The Line Reviews

Greate gameplay and story.

The gameplay is okay. People say the story is really good, but it feels like a movie plot in a video game. It would make much more sense in a movie than in a game, as it just feels like you're in a trolley problem but without a lever, where you get lectured for not pulling the lever (even though you can't).

I've never played a game that made me really feel like I was "supposed" to do the wrong thing. In a way, it's infuriating because I want to have the choice to NOT kill innocent people, to NOT mow down American troops, to NOT put my squad members in impossible scenarios... But that's not the game, and I appreciate what it is trying to do. This game feels like art, but that doesn't make it fun to play. The gameplay is fine, acceptable, competent. But that's not why you play this game. You play this game to engage with the story, the themes, and the dark place it puts you. It asks tough questions and doesn't give any answers, just demands that you look at ugliness. This game is special, and not very fun. It's important, but disquieting. It is unique, and I don't want to play it again.

Bioshock of Third Person Shooters. Gameplay is average, but nobody plays this game for that. Insane story, great music, Insane motion capture/VOs. One of the underrated GOATS.

nice game, good story, good battle

It didn't have to go this hard... Looks like another shooter game, turns out to be none like them. One of the best stories and storytelling I've played.

good performance I didn't notice any bugs This game is worth playing for the good story alone. It puts a twist to the generic "America, fuck yeah!" one man army fantasy, which is present in so many shooter campaigns. The presentation is good and there are some cool and creative set pieces. The game is short but in my opinion that is a good thing. The gameplay is also pretty fun BUT This game has by far the worst keyboard and mouse controls I ever experienced in a shooter. The keybinds are really unintuitive f.e. sprinting, getting into cover and interacting is bound to the same button. You can change the button but you cant bind those actions to different buttons, which often leads to frustrating moments where your character doesnt do what you want. The movement feels janky You cant change FOV But the worst part by far is aiming for multiple reasons: 1. The game has mouse acceleration 2. horizontal sensitivity is different to vertical sensitivity 3. up sensitivity is different to down sensitivity 4. The lowest sensitivity setting is still way to high To change this i first edited the .ini files. But if you do this and manually lower the sensitivity you have DEADZONES! ... With a mouse! ... WTF! In the end i reverted those changes and hat to manually change my dpi every time I wanted to play. But even then I had deadzones when using scoped weapons. So those were basically unusable. TL;DR good short story fun gameplay horrible keyboard and mouse controlls => play with controller if possible

One of the best military shooters I've ever played. While the gameplay is nothing special — a third-person shooter from the seventh-generation consoles — in terms of atmosphere and storyline, it's one of the best creations on this theme. Roughly on the level of MW2.

It's a fantastic game, and it's a shame you can't buy it any more. I don't like saying it, but worth sailing the high seas to get it if you haven't played it

A genuine masterpiece in storytelling, especially in its relation to video games as a whole. Clever, disturbing, and confrontational. The less you know, the better. Play on Hard difficulty because you deserve the suffering. 10/10