I realized early on that this game was going to be good. Spec Ops: The Line is very much its own story as well, with its own twists and unique commentary on war and violence and what it means to be a hero, telling its story in ways that only a video game can. Partly this is because film can tell stories in ways that novels cannot, and vice versa. Coppola's film borrowed thematically from Conrad's book and then built its story around the skeletal frame of its plot, but it remained unique - a separate and fundamentally different piece of work. The ubiquitous Radioman dogging your footsteps throughout the game bears an uncanny resemblance to Dennis Hopper's reporter from Apocalypse Now.Īnd yet, the game is no more a remake of either of these works than Apocalypse Now was a remake of Heart of Darkness. The mysterious Colonel Konrad in Spec Ops: The Line takes his name from Joseph Conrad, and of course bears a resemblance to Heart of Darkness antagonist, Kurtz (described as a painter and a genius in the book) as well as Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now. There are many allusions throughout 2K's violent third-person cover-shooter to both Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now.Ĭaptain Martin Walker shares his first name with Martin Sheen, the actor who plays Captain Benjamin Willard in the film. It's only fitting, then, that in 2012 this story would take place in the Middle East and be told in a video game. This culminates in some truly horrible acts towards the end of the game which really affected me as a player.The novel became a film, and the horrors were transposed into a new medium. In the end, we’re little more than the last vestige of self-awareness in him as we watch his psyche unravel, powerless to do anything. Players control Walker through his descent into madness, and throughout the six hours of stop-and-pop third-person shooter gameplay, we get a front-row seat as events unfold. Mass graves, White Phosphorous, and war crimes fracture the psyche and mental stability of these hardened Delta Force operators.
Marines.įrom there, Walker and his team march on an inexorable descent into pure madness as both Walker and his men are confronted by the deepest, darkest hearts and minds of the human race. Walker and his team are on the lookout for survivors, and they discover some soon after arriving… along with slaughtered U.S. Spec Ops: The Line follows Captain Martin Walker and his Delta Force team as they are sent to investigate the ruined city of Dubai after an apocalyptic sandstorm ravages the city. The next thing I knew it was dark, a guy named Snowden dropped some hot goss, and my perception of what a video game narrative could be was changed forever.
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After checking if my worn-out laptop could handle running it without spontaneously combusting (the answer was “yes, but by the skin of its CPU”), I downloaded it and gave it a go.
I didn’t end up getting a PlayStation 3 until 2013, so I missed Spec Ops the first time around and I didn’t hear about it until I stumbled upon it one day on Steam. Unfortunately, we weren’t lucky enough to experience these guys on the big screen in 2012 (even the real ones). The world ten years ago was different from 2022, The Avengers had just hit cinemas, the term social distancing was only uttered by people unfortunate enough to get stuck in a conversation with a close talker, and YAGER released their third-person shooter, Spec Ops: The Line.
Anyway, 2012, PlayStation 3, at the mercy of Xbox, yadda yadda… now we’re all caught up. Humph, well I don’t know what all the fuss is all about, I’m just trying to keep people informed against misnomers because that’s what’s truly dividing this country…
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