
Agent Provocateur: Early on in the game, you discover that the CIA has deliberately restarted the conflict between the 33rd and the Insurgents.Riggs believes this fate will befall the United States if the Middle East as a whole declares war on them, which is why he tries to kill everyone in Dubai through dehydration to cover up the entire affair.
After the End: For the city of Dubai anyway. Later, after committing a war crime by wiping out a garrison filled with refugees, the loading screens eventually begin mocking the player for it themselves. Addressing the Player: The game registers the name of the profile you are playing it on, and has that name listed as " Special Guest" in the opening credits. Action Prologue: The game begins In Medias Res with Delta aboard a helicopter, being pursued by the 33rd. The real Konrad grew horrified at what he had done to Dubai and was Driven to Suicide long before Walker himself and Delta arrived. Above Good and Evil: The hallucinatory Konrad seems to think of himself as a savior and does not think of himself as evil or good. To summarize: in most ordinary CoD-likes, your character is always a quintessential American hero, the USA (and sometimes the UK) always saves the world, and your enemies are always non-Westerners in this game to the contrary, your character is ambiguously evil, and it's Americans versus Americans who, in their belief that they're doing the right thing, ultimately ruin everything. However, as the story develops, it slowly reveals itself to actually be a deconstruction of military shooter games, which criticizes the genre for providing players with an unrealistic and immoral Power Fantasy through the glorification of war - and criticizes the player for participating. Delta Force operators who gun down wave after wave of "insurgents" in a Middle Eastern desert setting. On the surface, Spec Ops: The Line appears to be just another generic, dime-a-dozen Call of Duty-like cover shooter, with the player assuming control of a squad of gruff U.S. Then a weak distress signal is picked up, and a three-man Delta Force team is sent to find Konrad and rescue survivors, led by Player Character Captain Martin Walker ( Nolan North), who previously served under Konrad in Afghanistan.Įxcept that things are not what they seem, and are about to get worse. After six months of silence, the Army fears Konrad and his men were lost in the destruction of the city. Defying orders to withdraw, Konrad attempted to lead a caravan of refugees out of Dubai, just before a massive sandstorm turned the city into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. the Damned 33rd), to assist in the evacuation of Dubai. US Army Colonel and founding member of Delta Force John Konrad ( Bruce Boxleitner) volunteered his unit, the 33rd Infantry Battalion (a.k.a. Tvtropes spec ops the line ps3#
The only thing that we are displeased with is the rant at the ending.Spec Ops: The Line is a 2012 cover-based Third-Person Shooter for PC, Xbox 360, PS3 and macOS, created by Yager Development, and the latest game in the Spec Ops series, though it contains no story elements from previous installments.ĭubai is under threat from some of the most violent sandstorms in history. Although short, the Fix Fic provides the lenses of an alternate opportunity where, instead of blindingly following orders, Adams and Lugo have the sense to talk out about Walker and giving both of them a choice to either do right or do wrong.Comments: A short Fix Fic where Adams, Lugo and Walker choose do the sensible thing, based on the earlier versions of Spec Ops: The Line where leaving early on was still an option.Synopsis: Everyone hates Captain Martin Walker, the sociopathic, crazed soldier who killed a bunch of innocent people because he wanted to be a hero.
Recommended by: Zoic Alcelaphine, HOSPES_VISITANT.How Spec Ops: The Line Could Have Ended by Mark123100 Synopsis: A one-shot about a soldier writing a report about the events of Dubai, trying to gather as much information as he can.Report 5382-967-23-B by Zues Killer Productions But something at the back of his mind tells him that he can't ever go home. Synopsis: Dubai is saved, Walker is crawling through the rubble, trying to locate survivors, trying to go back home.