Spec Ops: The Line is a
third-person shooter video game developed by Yager Development and published by
2K Games. The game was released for
Microsoft Windows,
Xbox 360 and
PlayStation 3 on June 26, 2012 in North America and on June 29, 2012 in Europe.
Although in the
Spec Ops series,
The Line
does not take any story elements from previous titles. The game follows
Captain Martin Walker as he is sent into a post-catastrophe
Dubai with an elite
Delta Force
team on a reconnaissance mission, but the situation escalates into a
hunt for a decorated officer, Colonel John Konrad. While lead writer
Walt Williams has stated that there are many influences, the premise is
inspired by
Joseph Conrad's novella
Heart of Darkness.
The game was generally well received by critics. Multiple commentators observed similarities to
Apocalypse Now, a
Vietnam War-era adaptation of
Heart of Darkness, in the game's feel and expression of inglorious war.
Spec Ops: The Line is a third-person shooter with emphasis on
cover and elements of
squad-based tactics.
Various new weapons and equipment become available as play progresses,
some dropped by downed enemies. These include several different
rifles,
handguns, and
machine guns, some with alternate firing modes, like attaching a
suppressor or using a
telescopic sight; as well as
grenade launchers and
hand grenades.
Single-player squad commands include focusing fire on a particular
target and ordering medical attention for an injured squad member.
A multiplayer mode is also included, with six competitive game types
across seven maps, loadout customization, and community leaderboards and
challenges. Yager describes the multiplayer as a campaign that expands
the single-player experience. In addition, there will be multiple mode
types with several focusing on terrain deformation and expansion.
The game has several subtle effects as the team loses their sanity,
with Walker having visual and auditory hallucinations, and his
executions of enemies becoming more violent, along with his team orders
and shouts becoming increasingly angry and ragged versus his original
stern command voice.
Setting
Six months prior to the game, the worst series of
dust storms in recorded history began across
Dubai in the
United Arab Emirates
(UAE). Dubai's politicians and wealthy elite downplayed the situation
before evacuating in secret, leaving countless Emiratis behind.
Lieutenant Colonel John Konrad (
Bruce Boxleitner), the decorated but
post-traumatic stress disorder-troubled commander of the fictional 33rd Battalion,
United States Army, was returning home with his unit
from Afghanistan when the storms struck. Konrad volunteered the 33rd Battalion to help the relief efforts, then
deserted
with the entire unit when ordered to abandon the city and its refugees.
As the storms intensified, a massive storm wall engulfed Dubai for
miles, disrupting surveillance and communication, air travel, and all
but the strongest radio broadcasts. The 33rd declared
martial law,
and struggled to maintain order amid 80 mph winds, riots, and dwindling
resources. The last communication from Dubai stated that the 33rd was
attempting to lead a
caravan out of the city. The caravan never arrived, and soon afterwards the UAE declared Dubai a
no-man's-land. All travel to the city was barred, the 33rd was publicly disavowed for
treason, and no further news left the city.
Two weeks before the beginning of the game, a looped radio signal
penetrated the wall. Its message was brief; “This is Colonel John
Konrad, United States Army. Attempted evacuation of Dubai ended in
complete failure. Death toll: too many.” The United States military
decides to covertly send in a three-man
Delta Force team to carry out
reconnaissance. The team, consisting of Captain Martin Walker (
Nolan North), Lieutenant Alphonse Adams (
Christopher Reid), and Staff Sergeant John Lugo (
Omid Abtahi), are told to confirm the statuses of Konrad and any survivors, then radio for extraction.
Story
The game begins
in medias res
with Walker, Adams and Lugo aboard a helicopter piloted by Adams,
flying over a ruined Dubai. Other helicopters begin to chase them, which
Walker attempts to dispatch with the helicopter's
minigun. However, a sudden sandstorm causes the helicopter to crash in the desert.
The story jumps back to the beginning, with Walker, Adams and Lugo
traversing the storm wall through to the outskirts of a mostly-buried
Dubai on foot. They come in contact with a group of hostile armed
survivors, referred to as "insurgents", who have captured a squad of
33rd soldiers. Throughout the rest of their journey, the team hears
broadcasts on homemade speakers by the Radioman (
Jake Busey), a former journalist (named Robert Darden) turned
DJ that was once embedded with the 33rd in Afghanistan and now speaks on their behalf.
As the journey progresses, the squad finds evidence of what had
happened in Dubai over the preceding months, indicating that after the
failed evacuation, the 33rd returned to Dubai as an occupying force and
committed atrocities against the civilian population with the intent of
maintaining order. Aggrieved by this, elements of the 33rd staged a
coup d’etat
against Konrad in protest, forming the exiles. The CIA has been
organizing the insurgents to attack both Konrad’s loyalist 33rd and the
exiles. Although there is now clear evidence against Konrad's virtue,
Konrad once saved Walker's life in
Kabul during the war, which inclines him to trust Konrad.
The team attempts to peacefully intervene when they come across
refugees being rounded up by loyalist 33rd soldiers. However, the
soldiers mistake them for CIA operatives and begin a firefight,
resulting in the team having to kill fellow American soldiers, much to
their dismay. As the 33rd retreats with a number of
civilian
prisoners, Walker insists on investigating further in hopes of
evacuating survivors and finding Konrad. The team learns that a CIA
agent, Daniels, has been captured by the 33rd and is being interrogated.
Arriving to rescue Daniels, they are ambushed by the 33rd and discover
that Daniels is dead and that it was a trap set for Gould, another CIA
agent. Gould arrives with a band of insurgents, allowing Walker to
escape. Gould is captured and killed, but the team learns that they may
get more information at a location called the Gate. Arriving at the
Gate, which is heavily guarded by the 33rd, the team, disregarding
Lugo's objections, uses a mortar loaded with
white phosphorus
to attack the 33rd. However, the team learns to their horror that the
33rd were holding civilians for their own safety in the coming battles
and that the civilians had been killed by the white phosphorus rounds.
The team discovers Konrad's former command squad, who have been
executed. Walker finds a small handheld radio, via which Konrad begins
communicating with him and questioning the morality of Walker's actions.
Shortly afterwards, Konrad forces Walker to choose between executing an
Emirati survivor who stole water from the 33rd, or a 33rd soldier who
was tasked with bringing the former to justice and killed the man's
family in the process. Subsequently, Delta finds CIA agent Riggs leading
a raid on the Underwater Aquatic Coliseum, the city's last water
supply. Riggs tells Delta that insurgent control of the water will
cripple the 33rd's operations in Dubai and bring peace. However, after
the team aids Riggs, he intentionally destroys the water supplies and
Walker learns that the CIA wanted to wipe out the entire population so
that no one would learn of the 33rd's atrocities, which would cause the
whole region
to declare war on the United States in retaliation. Riggs, injured
after destroying the water supplies, dies immediately afterwards.
The entire city will begin dying of
dehydration
within four days. To prevent this and organize an evacuation, the team,
which is now becoming increasingly edgy and more violent, with Walker
suffering from hallucinations, heads to the Trans-Emirates Building to
silence the Radioman and warn the city using the radio. The Radioman
surrenders and instructs Delta on how to use his PA system, but is shot
dead by Lugo. To escape, Adams commandeers a
UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter (leading to the helicopter sequence from the opening of the game, which Walker
seems to remember), which crashes in the desert after a sudden sandstorm.
As the team attempts to re-unite after the crash, Lugo gets
lynched by a mob of civilians. When attempts to
resuscitate
Lugo fail, Walker and Adams either scare the crowd away or kill them in
retribution. Walker's hallucinations are nearly constant at this point.
Walker contacts Konrad and informs that he is coming to Konrad's
headquarters to kill him. Walker and Adams make their way to the tower;
however, the two are soon surrounded by the last of Konrad's men. Walker
attempts to surrender to get inside, but an enraged Adams insists on
fighting to the death and shames Walker into running for safety inside the tower.
Walker arrives at the
penthouse
of the tower. At first, Konrad appears to be the paranoid, charismatic
force behind the atrocities Walker was hoping for, until Walker finds
his decaying corpse on the penthouse deck. Walker has been suffering
from a
dissociative disorder
to rationalize the actions he has witnessed and carried out. The real
Konrad had committed suicide an unknown amount of time after the
broadcast that brought Delta to the city. The Konrad that Walker has
been in contact with during the game is actually a
traumatic
hallucination that none of his team witnessed or heard, existing only
within his mind. This mental projection of Konrad appears to Walker,
explaining that Walker knew he had the choice of leaving Dubai numerous
times, but pushed ahead out of a desire to be a hero. To maintain his
'sanity' after the white phosphorus strike, many subsequent events in
the game were distorted by Walker's mind to make Konrad a moral
scapegoat. With his fantasy coming to an end now that the truth is in
front of him, 'Konrad' points a gun at Walker’s head and begins counting
to five.
Endings
The Line has four possible endings. The player can choose to
allow 'Konrad' to shoot Walker or to have Walker shoot himself. Both
actions result in the first ending, which shows the camera panning
through the penthouse (which is revealed to be in a state of disrepair,
as opposed to the pristine condition Walker found it in) before showing
Walker's fresh corpse next to Konrad's old corpse. Konrad's original
broadcast then plays as the camera pans over the burning remnants of
Dubai. The other three endings are accessed by having Walker shoot
'Konrad,' who disappears after telling Walker that he can still return
home. Walker uses Konrad's radio to request an immediate evacuation of
Dubai. An epilogue after the credits shows a convoy of Army rescue
Humvees locating Walker, who is sitting on steps near the
Burj Khalifa wearing Konrad’s uniform and brandishing an
AA-12. The player can either drop the weapon or open fire. Attacking will result in a very difficult battle.
- If Walker drops his weapon, he then evacuates with the patrol. A
soldier remarks that the unit has driven through the entire city looking
for Walker, often coming across the results of the player's actions.
When questioned about how he survived, Walker replies, "Who said I did?"
- If Walker dies in the fight, he will be shown lying in a pool of
blood, remembering a conversation between himself and Konrad during the war,
before the fighting in Kabul worsened. As his dying body is being
watched by the patrol, Walker remembers casually remarking about
returning home. Konrad had replied that there was no way men like them
could, stating "We can't go home. There's a line men like us have to
cross. If we're lucky, we do what's necessary, and then we die."
- If Walker manages to kill the entire patrol, he will radio U.S.
command saying, "Gentlemen, welcome to Dubai." Walker then heads back
into the remains of Dubai as the camera pans to a wide shot of the
ruined city.
Cast
- Nolan North as Cpt. Martin Walker
- Christopher Reid as Lt. Alphonse Adams
- Omid Abtahi as Staff Sgt. John Lugo
- Bruce Boxleitner as Col. John Konrad
- Jake Busey as the Radioman/Robert Darden
- Patrick Quinn as Agent Jeff Riggs
- Chris Cox as Agent Rick Gould
- Rick Pasqualone as Agent Daniel
Soundtrack
The game's score was composed by Elia Cmiral and features mostly guitar-based compositions, along with several ambient tracks. The game also features several licensed tracks, including:
- Alice in Chains - "Rooster"
- Björk - "Storm"
- Briton - "Quick Silver"
- The Black Angels - "Bad Vibrations"
- The Black Angels - "The First Vietnamese War"
- Black Mountain - "Stormy High"
- Deep Purple - "Hush"
- Inner Circle - "Bad Boys"
- Jimi Hendrix - "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"
- Jimi Hendrix - "The Star-Spangled Banner"
- Martha and the Vandellas - "Nowhere to Run"
- Mogwai - "Glasgow Mega-Snake"
- Mogwai - "R U Still in 2 It"
- Nine Inch Nails - "The Day the World Went Away"
- Giuseppe Verdi - "Dies Irae, Libera Me"
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