Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is basically the game Spec Ops: The Line was created for a game so lavishly over the top and violent it can hardly be taken seriously.
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The most interesting thing about Spec Ops: The Line is that it presents you with a lead protagonist who is the very epitome of the super soldier.
Unlike the first-person perspective of Black Ops 2, Spec Ops: The Line is a third-person cover shooter.
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Most importantly, Spec Ops: The Line shows us how video games can tell stories in truly unique ways.
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Both Spec Ops: The Line and Far Cry 3 are attempts at portraying violence in video games as bad.
Spec Ops: The Line was one of the most surprising games of 2012.
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.
Spec Ops: The Line challenged the shooter genre to new heights.
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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.
This is why I think a game like Spec Ops: The Line really does qualify as a mature game, partly because it shows how games can tell stories in such unique and impactful ways.
Conversely, a game like Spec Ops: The Line hit me so hard because it was at once a new level of storytelling in video games and a throwback to films like Apocalypse Now and the Joseph Conrad novella, Heart of Darkness.
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