Spec Ops: The Line is an adventure developed by Yager Development, released 26 June 2012 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Linux and Mac. The main story takes about 6.3 hrs to finish.
What Spec Ops: The Line is
Spec Ops: The Line is an adventure game developed by Yager Development and released in 2012. It was published by 2K Games. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game will follow the story of player character Captain Martin Walker (voiced by Nolan North) as he is sent into a post-apocalyptic Dubai with an elite Delta Force bravo team. Previously, Dubai was a wealthy area with many high profile citizens until catastrophic sandstorms left a majority of the city buried. This caused many to evacuate, leaving only a few behind. One of the people left behind was U.S. Army Colonel John Konrad (a reference to the author of Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad), a founding member of Delta Force, who refused to evacuate from a training facility in the city and instead remained behind with the men under his command to help protect the citizens that could not…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, stealth and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 50 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Spec Ops: The Line holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 929 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6.3 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 10.1 hrs, roughly 1.6 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2Ghz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 equivalent, 2 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 / ATI Radeon HD 2600XT (256 MB memory). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 6GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Spec Ops: The Line launched on 26 June 2012, within three weeks of Persona 4 Golden, Spelunky, Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Persona 4 Golden, Spelunky, Pokémon Black Version 2, Pokémon White Version 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Spec Ops: The Line yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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