Another cheap binned shooter....... Wait what?!

User Rating: 9 | Spec Ops: The Line PS3
I don't know why I actually purchased this game, I don't like modern military shooter, expessally ones where the guy is standing on the cover holding a guy with a dark tone to the game. Looking at review scores I realised that I may have wasted $19.98. However I found myself putting the disc into my Playstation 3, and starting up the single player campaign. so my suprise, I felt the enviroments were pretty nice, but as did any other modern mililtary shooter, and the shooting mechanics I never seen a difference. You simply shoot things, and thats what I was doing.

The shooting, covering went on for about 3 hours..... UNTIL

I was faced with an incredible plot twist. And than I had realised that I was not playing the typical modern military shooter, I was immersed with something far darker and deeper than I had bargined for. Essentially, I was faced with conflict that the game made me do, but at worse, I felt terrible for the game making me do them.

Being in that situation, I came to realise, that I was actually scared to finish this game, but I could not just stop, because people have actually died, both soliders and innocent civilians. However, after a tear shed, and coming to the final credits of the game, I realised that this has been the modern shooting game I have been waiting for my whole life. The kind of shooting game I never wanted to play, because it made me feel like crap for killing. And it was all done by a game that I picked up in the Wal-Mart cheap bin for almost $20 bucks.

Truthfully I can see why this game got bad reviews. The game isn't really fun, but I felt that was the point of the game. The games mechanics actually worked to reinforce the games narrative. And it was rather mindblowing. After playing Spec Ops: The Line... I honestly don't think I will be able to play through an other mindless military shooting game, or a higher budget one to be honest. Spec Op: The Line is a very special game. And I will be honest I kind of wish this game was a little bit bigger, because I would have loved to hear other peoples opinions on this game.