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18th Jun '13 3:58:10 PM EKonoMai

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* CriticalDissonance: Critics, by and large, were impressed with the game's story and themes (if generally finding the gameplay decidedly lacklustre - neither noticeably good nor bad), but it sold very poorly. Players who did pick up the game were broken in half - one camp thinks it's a brilliant, damning indictment of the modern military shooter's disgusting power fantasies and totally unrealistic, insulting portrayal of actual warfare and prevalent, desensitizing violence in nearly all video games that shocks the average gamer out of their complacency, while the other thinks it's pretentious, hypocritical, self-important, [[MoralGuardians moralizing piece of trash that tries far too hard to get gamers to feel guilty about fictional violence and reality]], or [[MisaimedFandom dismissed it as another shooter and disregarded the story.]]
* CultClassic: Predicted by writer Walt Williams, who noted in an interview that the game's AudienceAlienatingPremise meant it was unlikely to ever be the sort of game with mass appeal. It has a hardcore following amongst certain gamers.

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* CriticalDissonance: Critics, by and large, were impressed with the game's story and themes (if generally finding the gameplay decidedly lacklustre - neither noticeably good nor bad), but it sold very poorly. Players who did pick up the game were broken in half - one camp thinks it's a brilliant, damning indictment of the modern military shooter's disgusting power fantasies and totally unrealistic, insulting portrayal of actual warfare and prevalent, desensitizing violence in nearly all video games that shocks the average gamer out of their complacency, while the other thinks it's pretentious, hypocritical, self-important, [[MoralGuardians moralizing piece of trash that tries far too hard to get gamers to feel guilty about fictional violence and accuses them of being unable to tell fiction from reality]], or [[ComicallyMissingThePoint didn't pay attention to the story and dismissed it solely on the gameplay as yet another modern military shooter.]]
* CultClassic: Predicted by writer Walt Williams, who noted in an interview that the game's AudienceAlienatingPremise meant it was unlikely to ever be the sort of game with mass appeal. It has a hardcore following amongst certain gamers, enough to have a book written on it.

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18th Jun '13 3:49:47 PM EKonoMai

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18th Jun '13 4:25:58 AM EKonoMai

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16th Jun '13 3:53:21 PM Folamh3

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Doesn't really qualify for the trope. The sequence doesn't seem out of place and certainly wasn't intended as such, and seems entirely in keeping with the game's themes and narratives up to that point (even serving as foreshadowing for how Walker will eventually doom Adams to an untimely death). Sure it's not brought up again, but nor are most of Walker's hallucinations.

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16th Jun '13 12:09:49 AM EKonoMai

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15th Jun '13 10:28:22 AM Iaculus

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14th Jun '13 7:04:56 PM TheGDude

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13th Jun '13 10:25:55 PM EKonoMai

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13th Jun '13 10:24:19 PM EKonoMai

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* OlderThanTheyThink: A lot of critics praised ''SpecOpsTheLine'' for deconstructing the modern military shooter (and the violence in games as a whole), but it is not the first game to do so - or even the first game in the last decade. VideoGame/{{Haze}} attempted it earlier, in 2008, as a deconstruction of game violence as a whole (the plot was sci-fi to attack the sci-fi [=FPSes=] of the time, but at one point, the game was to be set in Afghanistan as a modern shooter). Unlike ''The Line'', however, it was critically thrashed for terrible controls, glitches of every caliber, rushed development, an absurd story with no emotional resonance or moral ambiguity at all, and even ''less'' subtlety than in ''The Line'' (literally ''every Mantel friendly'' was a psychopathic manchild).
** ''Blacksite: Area 51'' was also a similarly {{anvilicious}}, deconstructionist take on the modern military-themed shooter, but suffered the same problems as ''Haze'' (copious glitches, mediocre gameplay, brainlessly unsubtle writing and nonsensical story). The game itself dealt with US foreign policy (and with the US government as mustache-twirling evil overlords who kidnapped women and transients to be converted into psychotic super-soldiers, and casually abandon US forces at the drop of a hat) and has a similar YouBastard undertone.

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* OlderThanTheyThink: A lot of critics praised ''SpecOpsTheLine'' for deconstructing the modern military shooter (and the violence in games as a whole), but it is not the first game to do so - or even the first game in the last decade. VideoGame/{{Haze}} attempted it earlier, in 2008, as a deconstruction of game violence as a whole (the plot was sci-fi to attack the sci-fi [=FPSes=] of the time, but at one point, the game was to be set in Afghanistan as a modern shooter). Unlike ''The Line'', however, it was critically thrashed for terrible controls, glitches of every caliber, rushed development, an absurd story with no emotional resonance or moral ambiguity at all, with ''enormous'' plot holes from the rushed development that [[WhatCouldHaveBeen removed many features and storylines]] (such as the effects of the eponymous Haze drug not working as was talked about in previews and the supposedly peaceful rebels having a nuclear missile), and even ''less'' subtlety than in ''The Line'' (literally ''every Mantel friendly'' was a psychopathic manchild, while the rebels were complete saints oppressed by the villains... despite having nuclear missiles).
** ''Blacksite: Area 51'' was also a similarly {{anvilicious}}, deconstructionist take on the modern military-themed/sci-fi shooter, but suffered the same problems as ''Haze'' (copious glitches, mediocre gameplay, brainlessly unsubtle writing and nonsensical story). The game itself dealt with US foreign policy (and with the US government as mustache-twirling evil overlords who kidnapped women, illegalimmigrants, and transients to be converted into psychotic super-soldiers, and casually abandon US forces at the drop of a hat) and has a similar YouBastard undertone.

11th Jun '13 7:17:06 PM Folamh3

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