Spec Ops The Line : Yager's Song of War and Sand...

Yager are known for... well Yager , an impressive  vehicular scifi shootemup from Xbox days .Like that other great German softco Factor 5, Yager excelled in technical prowess and games where you flew around making things go boom in very pretty explosions. Yager was an awesome scifi flight sim in the vain of Incoming Forces only several magnitudes of excellence better ..

Spec Ops is a long lived strategic military combat franchise, competitor to the great and most excellent Hidden and Dangerous series on the PC .. Never quite managing to out do Illusion Softwork's greatest , but holding it's own through the years and now surviving it's competition in Spec Ops The Line. Sad thing that most of today's reviewers will see this game as a reaction to Call of Duty forgetting the heritage of the much older Spec Ops series altogether .

THQ throwing together the talent of Yager and the Spec Ops brand has produced one of the finest series reboots in recent memory . 

Playing Spec Ops The Line is going to surprise you ,Yager have nailed what makes a great FPS or TPS game great . And I do not refer to the games deep morally twisting story line , or the excellently paced in fire fight songs and music that together manage to place  you in your very own Heart of Darkness. From the above shots it looks like a generic TPS , but keep playing and the game starts to play you...

As Aliens was the best Vietnam film ever made without being set in Vietnam , Spec Ops The Line  is quite the finest 'Nam game in living memory not set in Vietnam.. or the the African heartland...But this is  Nam in the sense of all those tripped out surreal War movies which themselves are interpretations of classic tripped war literature. 

The thing that makes Spec Ops The Line a truly great game for me though is the combat.


Great PC shooters have an essential game mechanic , one which involves you getting a rush from barely surviving each fire fight by the skin of your teeth.  Yes you can save every second and replay , but skilled players achieve a zen like state of just about surviving . Take Doom or Half Life for instance , the most fun is had when playing at the highest difficulty setting , and making every piece of ammo count , taking hits and trying to survive whilst constantly attacking .. in Yager's game we get to do this whilst soaking in all the psycho babble ,Sun and sand of  Duabai too...

Now this gaming dynamic was totally done away when the Gears of War Epicdemic arrived and had people hiding behind school desks popping over to blast enemies as wide or wider than the entire screen with auto aiming precision .. ad  nauseum..  Unlike Mr Phoenix and his crew , the stars of Spec Ops The Line are nimble , have necks , and fight with almost a Ninja Gaiden esque style...

Spec Ops The Line doesn't entirely do  away with the old way of playing hide and shoot but  brings the FPS survival rush dynamic , into a third person shooter . So there I am playing an impressive TPS , music and tunes blaring and mysteriously mysterious happenings pulling the narrative along when I am dropped into the most ferocious fire fight this jaded gaming Vet has had since the good old days of those Half Life fire fights or rushing into a hall full of 100 imps in Doom and making it to the other side with 01% health .. 

Rush .. that's what you get with Spec Ops The Line : Did I expect this excellence.. no I did not .. check out the fire fight in question below : And try it out for your self when you get hold of this excellent game .

If you are fan of gaming you owe it to yourself to take a leap of faith with Yager's Spec Ops The Line ... 

I play Spec Ops The Line on a Lenovo X220T with 4gb Ram , Intel HD3000 , and using the siliconmicrodisplay ST1080 hmd to give me a 100"  screen to get lost in. 

 Ahh cliff hangers ... check out the game from Steam now to find out what happens next.....

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