Modern Warfare 3 developers Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games were on hand to take a deep dive into multiplayer and then offer hands-on gameplay with five maps and new game modes, as well as the Spec Ops co-op Survival mode.

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Their three titles -- "Borderlands 2, " "XCOM, " and "Spec Ops" -- are existing franchises with deep fan bases.

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Unlike the first-person perspective of Black Ops 2, Spec Ops: The Line is a third-person cover shooter.

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This is why I appreciated Spec Ops: The Line so much - not because I fully agree that we, the player, are complicit in the acts of violence we commit within video games.

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Spec Ops: The Line is by no means a perfect game, but it provides a welcome self-awareness that is too often absent in the medium.

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