There's definitely merit to this game. I do like the concept of being forced by the game to do awful stuff, and the idea of having very little control in this situation is interesting. The gameplay is serviceable, it swings between laughably easy and annoying with some jarring difficulty spikes, but overall it works in a sense (and the inclusion of achievements for various types of kills makes me feel like crap in a way I didn't realise achievements could). The story works overall but sadly doesn't have any gut punch moments besides the bombing scene, which overshadows nearly everything else in the game. I love the idea of Spec Ops the line, a low budget action game that mocks its own genre and the political landscape of the time, but this could have been much, much better, from both the perspective of story telling and gameplay. The lack of control in gaming concept has been handled better before and since. I guess I just wanted something more ambitious than this?