However, as with all older titles it is always worth shopping around to find the best deal. For UK gamers, the Fubar Edition containing multi-player bonuses, is available for £8.99 from Amazon UK.įor US gamers, the Standard Edition is available for $24.99 Amazon US. Our community rated the game with a fairly high score of 4.1 which is slightly higher than the rating of 76 from Metacritic.įor the record, our official site review can be found here.Īs with most games, the title was available in various editions. That means an impressive 75% of players starting the title, actually saw the campaign through to the end surely a testament to the quality of the story. However, it's interesting to note that 13,611 gamers finished the campaign on at least the easiest setting. There's the usual mix of story-related, weapons, and collectibles, none of which are too difficult.Īt the time of writing, a mere 18,209 tracked gamers on the site have played this game, and only 2,602 have completed it (14.29%) in its entirety. Most of the achievements can be picked up in a single playthrough (as long as you don't mind rolling through on FUBAR difficulty and replaying the end and a few other segments a few times). There are a maximum of 50 achievements worth 1,328 TA Score (1,000 GS), all of which are single-player which gives an indication of the importance of multiplayer to the title. Mission parameters become lost, ethics and morals are forgotten, boundaries are pushed and ultimately exceeded, and the line between right and wrong is ultimately and irreversibly crossed. With the city's politicians, rich, and elite having already deserted the city, lawlessness ensues, and Walker finds himself sucked in the midst of a complex and savage entanglement between various forces struggling for power over the doomed city. From such a simple premise, things deteriorate rapidly. The player assumes the role of Captain Martin Walker, who has been sent along with two other soldiers, to recon the area and attempt to discover what happened to the US 33rd division that mysteriously disappeared whilst trying to evacuate a small caravan of civilians from the sand-ravaged city. The city's famous skyscrapers lay half-buried after cataclysmic sandstorms engulfed the sprawling affluent metropolis, cutting off communication. The game is a third-person shooter set in the city of Dubai which has been half-consumed by the desert sands around it. Spec Ops: The Line would have to have something special to make it stand out, and it truly did. Given its long history of development problems, there was a good chance that this latest edition of Spec Ops would be overlooked, especially as the multiplayer component, the driving force behind the more successful franchises, had been outsourced and seemed to be tacked on at the end. The game hit the shelves whilst shooter fans were still busy with modern combat titles such as Battlefield 3 and various Call of Duty titles. Much like a gamer who finds an Easter Egg hidden away in a game and proceeds to trumpet it from the highest hills and forums, the TA Team is going to be featuring these Easter Egg games on the front page for all to see.In 2012, 2K Games released the latest title in the Spec Ops franchise, Spec Ops: The Line. The game has yet to be dated.Welcome to Easter Eggs, where the TA Team shines the spotlight on games that many gamers might have missed, perhaps hidden away behind the millionth copy of Call of Duty or FIFA.
Look out for a full Spec Ops: The Line preview soon. The corpses hung upside down by lampposts in the trailer hint at what's to come.
The teaser site continues the build-up, promising a "provocative" adventure where players have to make grim decisions as the extent of their former comrade's behaviour becomes apparent. Dubai has been covered by a vast sandstorm, and the sand reacts to the game's physics, draining through broken skylights and surging over enemies when encouraged by explosives.
The trailer also showcases the environmental difficulties players will face. In the launch trailer, the player is needled by this rogue chap's voiceover, which suggests he's gone a bit Apocalypse Now in the process. German developer Yager is at the controls (and not 2K Boston as previously rumoured), and is producing a third-person shooter about a US special forces unit entering a post-disaster Dubai in search of a rogue US officer.
2K has officially unveiled Spec Ops: The Line for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.