Spec Ops: The Line - PC Game Review

Spec Ops: The Line is a squad 3rd-person view shooter. It is very much like all of them - you have to take cover and kill enemies, and can order your squad mates around a bit, such as killing specific enemies and in special occasions, using flash-bang grenades.

The story is a bit unusual - apparently Dubai was lost in a massive sand storm, and your squad was sent to help a group of US soldiers that lost contact while trying to lead a mass move from the city. When your squad arrives, it soon has to fight some guerrilla fighters, although the story implies that you will fight pretty much everyone eventually.

The first sequence in the demo is an helicopter rail shooter, which looks great, although it does stretch the imagination a bit - you kill something like a dozen choppers. At least they blow in cute ways, such as hitting cranes, buildings and more.

The rest of the battle is pretty standard, as I mentioned. The game seems to be a bit stingy with ammo, and there are a bunch of different guns being used. That has the disadvantage that you always have to be switching (and you can only have two guns) to have ammo.

Load times aren't bad, but reloading after a death seems to be the same as the load time, which is annoying.

Graphics are great, but the gameplay did not leave me impressed. I'll definitely not be buying the pre-order on this one - maybe at a serious discount later.

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