History Awesome / SpecOpsTheLine

* Another more meta one for the game is that it even managed to affect [[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee.]] You know, the fast-talking critic [[CausticCritic who despises everything]] about some games? The message that The Line was getting across was so poignant that [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/6021-Spec-Ops-The-Line he found it extremely difficult to make fun of it in his review]], aside from a few fart noise jokes, and actually seemed rather moved by the story. This game affected everything related to him for over a week into a manic-depression spree. Guess ''The Line'' was the step in the right direction he had been waiting for regarding shooters as a genre?

* Every Crowning Moment of Awesome has a WhatTheHellHero after-effect but they still exist.
** For example, during the attack on the Dubai hotel, you have the option of shooting out a massive glass wall and dump ten thousand tons of sand on an enemy army. As soon as you're done high-fiving, you remember ''these are American soldiers you've '''buried alive'''''. [[spoiler:This is thrown back at your face in the final chapter.]]

* Another more meta one for the game is that it even managed to affect [[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee.]] You know, the fast-talking critic who despises everything about some games? The message that The Line was getting across was so poignant that [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/6021-Spec-Ops-The-Line he found it extremely difficult to make fun of it in his review]], aside from a few fart noise jokes, and actually seemed rather moved by the story. This game affected everything related to him for over a week into a manic-depression spree. Guess ''The Line'' was the step in the right direction he had been waiting for regarding shooters as a genre?

** The non-diegetic music is pretty good as well, such as Mogwai's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUvWYY0a0mA&feature=youtu.be Glasgow Mega Snake]]" for the Aquatic Colosseum battle, or Music/JimiHendrix's "1983, A Merman I Should Turn to Be" which plays over the end credits.

** The non-diegetic music is pretty good as well, such as Mogwai's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUvWYY0a0mA&feature=youtu.be Glasgow Mega Snake]]" for the Aquatic Colosseum battle.

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** The non-diegetic music is pretty good as well, such as {{Mogwai}}'s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUvWYY0a0mA&feature=youtu.be Glasgow Mega Snake]]" for the Aquatic Colosseum battle.

* Another more meta one for the game is that it even managed to affect [[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee.]] You know, the fast-talking critic who despises everything about some games? The message that The Line was getting across was so poignant that [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/6021-Spec-Ops-The-Line he found it extremely difficult to make fun of it in his review]], aside from a few fart noise jokes, and actually seemed rather moved by the story. This game affected everything related to him for over a week into a manic-depression spree. Guess ''The Line'' was '''the''' step in the right direction he had been waiting for regarding shooters as a genre?
-->'''Yahtzee:''' ...''*Sigh*'' Do you remember when shooters were about killing [[{{Doom}} demons from Hell?]] Those were good days. Perhaps this is an inevitable part of gaming growing up, as our childish fantasies are torn from us and we are [[RealityEnsues forced to confront consequences]] [[ButThouMust in an unfair, uncaring, and unavoidable]] [[CrapsackWorld world of hatred, misery, and death]]... ''*Fart Noise*''

* Relating to the ending, the "Good" ending is probably the best one - yes, Walker has crossed the MoralEventHorizon - but rather than [[DrivenToSuicide taking his own life]], or committing SuicideByCop, he instead gives himself into custody. He crossed the line that Konrad could not - by accepting the punishment for his mistakes as given by others, and not taking it into his own hands.

* Another more meta one for the game is that it even managed to affect [[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee.]] You know, the fast-talking critic who despises everything about some games? The message that The Line was getting across was so poignant that he found it extremely difficult to make fun of it in his review, aside from a few fart noise jokes, and actually seemed rather moved by the story. This game affected everything related to him for over a week into a manic-depression spree. Guess ''The Line'' was '''the''' step in the right direction he had been waiting for regarding shooters as a genre?

* Another more meta one for the game is that it even managed to affect [[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee.]] You know, the fast-talking critic who despises everything about some games? The message that The Line was getting across was so poignant that he found it extremely difficult to make fun of it in his review, aside from a few fart noise jokes, and actually seemed rather moved by the story. This game affected everything related to him for over a week into a manic-depression spree. Guess The Line was '''the''' step in the right direction he had been waiting for regarding shooters as a genre?

* AwesomeMusic: Almost everything the Radioman plays. From dementedly singing along with Dies Irae to Nowhere To Run, whenever the radio fires up it almost always accompanies one of the most awesome parts of the game.

** The non-diegetic music is pretty good as well, such as {{Mogwai}}'s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUvWYY0a0mA&feature=youtu.be Glasgow Mega Snake]] for the Aquatic Colosseum battle.

* Another more meta one for the game is that it even managed to affect [[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee.]] You know, the fast-talking critic who despises everything about some games? This game affected everything related to him for over a week into a manic-depression spree.

* Say what you will about the horrible things that the ending of the game reveals (stuff that rightfully belongs in the Tear Jerker and Nightmare Fuel sections of this website) but the execution of the ending is very well done. Very few endings have such a massive impact on the way you see the overall story of a video game like what Spec Ops The Line has done, once you see it you can't look at the story in the same way. TheEndingChangesEverything indeed.

* Just the fact that a story of this sort can exist is awesome in and of itself. To have a game like this that so thoroughly deconstructs war tropes is incredible. It shows that we can expect more out of shooters than just mindless violence, we can get the story to carefully examine what we the player are shooting at and why.

* Just the fact that a story of this sort can exist is awesome in and of itself. To see a market saturated with violence that doesn't seriously consider the harsh reality of war and the toll it has on human beings, turning war into a childish game, have a game like this that so thoroughly deconstructs those tropes is incredible. It shows that we can expect more out of shooters than just mindless violence, we can get the story to carefully examine what we the player are shooting at and why. This game represents a step in the right direction; ''Call of Duty'', and others like it, needs to pay attention.

* Just the fact that a story of this sort can exist is awesome in and of itself. To see a market saturated with violence that doesn't seriously consider the harsh reality of war and the toll it has on human beings, turning war into a childish game, have a game like this that so thoroughly deconstructs those tropes is incredible. It shows that we can expect more out of shooters than just mindless violence, we can get the story to carefully examine what we the player are shooting at and why. This game represents a step in the right direction, Call of Duty, and others like it, needs to pay attention.

** [[spoiler: [[NightmareFuel And let's not speak of the civilians who were there too.]] ]]

* Resoundingly {{Deconstructed}} with the White Phosphorous mortar. You are capable of wiping out an entire division of 33rd soldiers at once...then you get to see and ''hear'' the aftermath.

* Resoundingly {{Deconstructed}} with the White Phosphorous mortar. You are capable of wiping out an entire division of 33rd soldiers at once...then you get to see and ''hear'' the aftermath.

* Resoundingly {{Deconstructed}} with the White Phosphorous mortar. You are capable of wiping out an entire division of 33rd soldiers at once...then you get to see the aftermath.

** For example, during the attack on the Dubai hotel, you have the option of shooting out a massive glass wall and dump ten thousand tons of sand on an enemy army. As soon as you're done high-fiving, you remember ''these are American soldiers you've '''buried alive'''''.