Do you feel like a hero yet?

Provavelmente o melhor war shooter que já joguei! A gun play é genéricona da 8° geração, mas tá valendo. A trilha sonora é fantástica, só rockzera das antigas. Me admirei com seus gráficos também, são bem bonitos para época, os cenários em um Emirados Árabes destruído e coberto por areia da aquele imersão de pressão de resgate.

As escolhas desse game são intensas (a parte do fósforo branco me pegou), as revelações surpreendentes e a conclusão intrapessoal fantástica!

Esse game é atemporal!

If you haven't played this game yet, play it. Go in blind. Do not read any spoilers. Even if you have heard spoilers, play it anyway. It lives up to the hype.
I'm going to have to hold off before I post a full review. Giving an adequate analysis of this game is going to require some time and effort, especially since the game really requires some intertextuality to fully understand. I'm going to have to play a few more (related) games and watch some movies before I feel like I can really talk about this game and how it fits into its context. And no, this isn't some kind of weird troll--I genuinely think this game has a great storyline and it deserves to be explored in detail.

Tremendo juegazo. Salió en una época ultra saturada de shooters y shooters bélicos, y aunque no triunfó en ventas, da gusto que haya destacado por sobre otros con una historia y narrativa única y sumamente buena. Si no te gustan los shooters, el juego sigue siendo recomendado por su historia, adelante que este juego le puede fascinar a cualquier persona.

En cuanto a jugabilidad, está normal, decente. Pero su narrativa es la clave, la manera en que rompe la cuarta pared con el jugador de manera sutil, el como exploran la psicología de los personajes al corromperse por la guerra, la degradación del protagonista, tiene pequeños detalles en la historia como cuando ves la cara de *d en carteles, anuncios, cuando en realidad esa cara nunca estuvo ahí y es por obra del protagonista, entre muchos otros detalles que hacen el juego más profundo y genial... Es un juego bélico como ninguno, es único en su clase.
No es tan largo, yo me terminé el juego en 9 horas en una tarde y noche de vicio, pero dura el tiempo indicado que tiene que durar. Completamente recomendado

I think a lot of the criticisms thrown at this game are either coming in bad faith or just plain wrong. Spec Ops: The Line isn't telling you you're an asshole for playing the game that you've bought, it's just asking you questions about actions that you would take for granted in most games, and no, it's not doing that to reach some childish conclusion of "you're a MONSTER for shooting people in videogame".

Ultimately all art is subjective but it pains me a bit to see people writing Spec Ops off as some pretentious game that thinks it's way smarter than it is without really trying to actually consider what it's trying to say rather than jump to the most immediate conclusion.

I also think that even if you don't care for the meta stuff, the story of Captain Walker holds up extremely well on its own. Uh, gameplay kinda sucks, though I love a lot of the little details like Walker getting more unhinged in his combat animations as the game progresses.

Gameplay is solid, but not groundbreaking. Standard 2005 ~ 2016 cover shooter; poke your head out for more than two seconds and your character is turned into meatloaf, which makes melee and shotguns feel pretty useless. The sand mechanics are basic but add a neat layer of environment interaction to some of the proceedings. The only major bugbear is some of the controls; Walker comes off of cover or gets stuck to it at very inopportune times, running feels a bit too tank-like, and vaulting can be a hassle (on top of being bound to the melee key).

Visually, the graphics are clearly dated, but the art design is surprisingly vivid. In spite of the obviously intentional gray-brown military shooter aesthetic, there's some genuinely fun locations and engaging buildings throughout. On top of that, the emphasis on sandstorms and rolling dunes, while still brown, feels like a nice break from concrete and dingy hallways.

In spite of all of that, the main draw here is clearly the story. Signs likely appeared and went unnoticed by me earlier, but it's mostly about halfway through when things really kick up into something special. A game that expertly uses this specific medium of storytelling in a way that comments on both the nature of engaging with the artform of video games on a level not seen since probably Bioshock(?) and the dehumanizing effect of war. This would not work in any other format because you, the player, become a participant, as evidenced by loading screens referencing you directly. Character actions become increasingly grim and indefensible until you're left wondering why they, or you, for that matter, ever thought it was worth it to begin with. Thankfully, the story is not dumb and ham-fisted enough to put you on the wrong side of a good versus evil; everyone here is grotesque, to some degree, and who the good guys are (if there are even any at all) is up to you to decide. The twist came across as a tad bit goofy to me, but it does little to undercut the experience before it. This must be the definitive "war is hell" video game.

It's a weird experience but it's also a pretty good one. I didn't mind the fact that it's a very dated shooter because the gameplay is alright enough for me to still care about what's going on.

My only gripe is that the most notable moment (the white phosphorus setpiece) is not very earned, like at all. The ladder that you have to go down after isn't shown that well so, unless I'm just missing the point, I don't feel like that's very deserved. You are guided into believing that's what you have to do which takes away from the power of it a little bit. I think there are points that do what it tries to much better, like after Lugo dies and you're surrounded by civilians, you can actually make a conscious choice to not mow them all down and just shoot your gun in the air which I think is a much better alternative as a scene that's supposed to make you think about what you're doing.

There's a lot of small details that I like a lot, like how combat dialogue turns from being regular COD "Enemy KIA!" to "FUCKERS DOWN!!!!!!!!" as you progress further and Walker starts slowly losing his sanity

But yeah I mean, it's pretty good