After this reveal, the player then chooses how to end the story. It turns out that Konrad and some of the 33rd were just hallucinations. In the end, having lost both of his squadmates, Walker’s mental state has become so unhinged that nothing is as it seems. At one point he is forced to fire a white phosphorus mortar when he believes his squad is hopelessly outnumbered only to find that, after the smoke clears, he was firing on a group of the 33rd who were sheltering civilians, civilians that the mortar killed down to the last one. These hallucinations grow steadily worse as the plot progresses and Walker is forced to commit greater atrocities. Throughout the story the player character Walker is shown to hallucinate, a result of his PTSD from his former service. The Line also uses the literary strategy of an unreliable narrator. Walker upon finding the civillains he ordered slaughtered In addition to this, the CIA has organized insurgent forces from the shadows and directed them to attack both the 33rd and the “exiles.” The main force is led by Colonel John Konrad and acts as an occupying force while commiting atrocities against the civilians, while the “exiles” are a splinter faction of the 33rd who staged a coup in response to the atrocities. The bulk of the 33rd American Army infantry battalion has split into two factions. A 3-way conflict has been born from the high tension situation. As the plot of the story progresses, it becomes clear that the situation in Dubai is far more complicated. The Line puts the player in the shoes of Captain Martin Walker, the leader of a three-man Delta Force team sent in to perform reconnaissance in Dubai after the United States Army fails in their evacuation attempt. Spec Ops: The Line, published by 2K games and developed by Yager Development, is one of the few war-based video game titles that effectively shows this other side. Soldiers and their commanding officers are forced to make impossible decisions one’s actions have consequences and the trauma that comes from taking another’s life isn’t shrugged off. It’s refreshing when a game forgoes this and paints war as what it is, a bloodbath. The most prevalent perpetrator of this is the very popular Call of Duty series. Too often throughout the history of video games the idea of war and killing is glorified and the effects it has on those involved are entirely unrealistic.
SPEC OPS THE LINE WHITE PHOSPHORUS PC
Of all the games that have graced the hard drive of my PC over the years (a number that I am happy to say is quite high), Spec Ops: The Line is one that impacted me most.
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