SPEC OPS THE LINE BURNING PROFESSIONAL
Your squad mates do a great job of portraying a range of temperaments with everything from playful military-themed banter to tense, stressful ‘under fire’ routines and coldly professional tactical assessments. The voice-acting is another strong point, with ‘Radioman’ being one of the more memorable antagonists in gaming and fan favourite, Nolan North voicing protagonist Captain Walker. Spec Ops: The Line’s music continues with this theme of dissonance, with licensed tracks that could easily belong in a Vietnam-era war movie, showing Black Ops how it’s done. And you are not disappointed even with the sand and debris piling up in places, seeing a hotel lobby furnished in blue marble, replete with a grand piano and model city makes for one of the more interesting set-pieces I’ve ever played. Their sandblasted exteriors will have taken some punishment, but still hint at the sheer opulence within. Spec Ops really gets this right when you first enter the buildings of Dubai for the first time. Visually, the ‘pretty desert’ style is comparable to Journey another title praised for it’s unusual approach to what is essentially trudging through ruins for the entire game. This game does visual contrast incredibly well, even if the graphics themselves are nothing to write home about. Juxtaposed with the clear blue skies, burning gold of the surrounding desert and Dubai’s gleaming skyline, it’s dissonant and creepy. You and your banter-happy team start off at an abandoned evacuation area littered with half-buried vehicles and possessions, totally devoid of life. Aside from being a very vanilla-looking shooter, the environments and style are fairly unique from the beginning. The first impressions of Spec Ops: The Line are mostly positive. So what makes Spec Ops: The Line stand out from the crowd?įirstly, a word on the setting itself.
It’s almost like the developers themselves wanted you to think you were getting into another Modern Battlefields game from the get-go… Indeed, the only thing I saw in previews to set this game apart from any other was the setting- a sand-blasted, almost post-apocalyptic Dubai. The series’ previous incarnations on the PS1 will do nothing to allay this false image, either.
If you were introduced to this game as I was by television or internet advertisements, you’ll be forgiven for thinking that the new Spec Ops is another brown cover-based shooter featuring buzz-cut wielding all-American hero no.32519.
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