Spec Ops: The Line 2012

Is it still worth playing?

Yager Development's 2012 third person shooter for Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, a reboot of the Spec Ops series. Captain Martin Walker leads a Delta Force team into Dubai ravaged by sandstorms to find the 33rd Battalion and its commander, Colonel John Konrad, while his sanity deteriorates. Combat is cover based, with squad commands for two teammates, and sand is a mechanic, through grenade dust clouds and avalanches. Slow motion follows headshots, and executions grant ammo. Moral choices have no morality meter, and there are four endings. Levels are mostly corridors, and audio recordings fill in the city's collapse. Ordinary shooter systems turned toward the protagonist's choices, with missions, hints and environment all pushing one theme, still make it play as one argument today.