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Spoiler: Spec Ops: The Line is an OK game for the "shoot and cry" crowd (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 years ago by notthenameiwant@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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You get it all in this game, white phosphorous, lynchings, gunning down protestors, etc. The only positive of this game is that you get to gun down American troops in a video game with no pretense of doing this in real life(In Minecraft).

The worst part about this game is that war crimes are framed as inevitable. I literally can't progress in the game without gunning down civilians or shooting white phosphorous at the troops™

Like, this game would be good if there was once an anti-war message sprinkled in there. The fact that this producer can spread war crime porn is disgusting.

This game was marketed as the tough choices horror show of games, and boy did it fuck that up.

As an addendum: the campaign is kind of fun to play

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[–] Indifference_Engine@hexbear.net 2 points 3 years ago

As someone who played it back when it released at the height of call of duty's popularity I always thought that:

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The really effective thing about the WP scene is that it kinda tricks you into doing it, quite a few of the CoD games had sequences where you fly a drone or an AC-130 and just blow away endless little white silhouettes without thinking about it. And the WP bombing plays on that expectation and makes you realize what you've been doing without thinking in all those other games.