History YMMV / SpecOpsTheLine

** It's easy to find the game directly criticizing the player for engaging with it as being a bit sanctimonious and even [[BrokenAesop hypocritical]], so many prefer to ignore this angle and view the story as more a self-contained character-driven tragedy rather than a metatextual condemning of the genre itself.

* {{Narm}}: It becomes pretty apparent that every 33rd soldier makes the same noise upon death, a sort of disheveled dad-grunt. This may take some players out of the experience and make them feel more like scripted video game Npcs.

** Creator/NolanNorth certainly puts to rest the idea that all he's got is Nathan Drake--rather impressively, considering this game was recorded before his fame from VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} but released after. His voice acting in the final section is especially powerful, the way he puts across Walker's total transformation to an utterly bloodthirsty brute while still maintaining the same pitch. Watch the transformation for yourself [[https://youtu.be/qc9BMznBXOE here]] or [[https://youtu.be/8EEvd1OupVM here]]. Emphasizing this is that [[CreatorsFavorite North is clearly fond of his work here as well]].
** Bruce Boxleitner's work as Konrad is extremely well-done as well, especially as he uses the same voice as [[Series/BabylonFive John Sheridan]] to castigate Walker throughout the game. The end confrontation between him and Walker has Conrad vacillate between "friendly grandfather" to "quiet menace" simply by putting the lines in contrast with events on-screen.
*** To say nothing of everyone else's voice acting chops; Omid Abtahi showed an astounding amount of emotional torque as Lugo, ranging from humorous banter to sheer rage and panic. Christopher Reid offered a surprising amount of indignation whenever he called out Walker, clearly evidenced at the end of the game. And Jake Busey wasn't just a good source of comic relief; his deflating mood when the water trucks crashed were heartbreaking to listen to.