History YMMV / SpecOpsTheLine

** Really, the way the plot goes, most players will end up feeling like a speed bag.

-->''"He turned us into fucking '''killers!'''"''
* NightmareFuel: Many of the corpses you come across are creepy. Among them is [[spoiler:Agent Daniels's, which is burned and mutilated. Even worse is that ''there's a speakerphone that's connected through his body and is propped up in his mouth'']]. Yuck.
** The aftermath of the [[spoiler:white phosphorus incident. Smoke everywhere (which, by the way, is ''toxic''), horribly burned bodies, the few survivors moaning in agony and often missing limbs, the pen full of dead civilians -- including women and children -- and the knowledge that it's ''all your fault'']].
* PlayerPunch: [[spoiler: The white phosphorus incident.]] The devs claim several people in their focus groups had to ''stop playing'' after that. Exactly as intended.
** Really, the way the plot goes, most players will end up feeling like a speed bag.
** Let's put it this way: it was so horrible, nightmarish, and downright '''realistic''', that even someone as cynical as ''[[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]'' wouldn't dare to make light of the scene.

* NightmareFuel: Many of the corpses you come across are creepy. Among them is [[spoiler:Agent Daniels's, which is burned and mutilated. Even worse is that ''there's a speakerphone that's connected through his body and is propped up in his mouth'']]. Yuck.
** The aftermath of the [[spoiler:white phosphorus incident. Smoke everywhere (which, by the way, is ''toxic''), horribly burned bodies, the few survivors moaning in agony and often missing limbs, the pen full of dead civilians -- including women and children -- and the knowledge that it's ''all your fault'']].

* FunnyMoments: The Radioman '[[HollywoodToneDeaf singing]]' along to ''[[OminousLatinChanting Dies Irae]]'' at the end of the sixth mission is admittedly pretty funny.

* Anvilicious

** Let's put it this way: it was so horrible, nightmarish, and downright '''realistic''', that even someone as cynical as ''[[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]'' wouldn't dare to make light of the scene.
** A really amazing number of critics shrugged this off as a rip-off of the "shocking for the sake of shocking" scenes from the Modern Warfare series. In fact the majority seem to have not experienced any emotional impact whatsoever.

** Let's put it this way: it was so horrible, nightmarish, and downright '''realistic''', that even someone as cynical as ''[[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]'' wouldn't dare to make light of the scene.

*** Let's put it this way: it was so horrible, nightmarish, and downright REALISTIC, that even [[ZeroPunctuation YAHTZEE]] wouldn't dare to make humour out of it.
**** Unless you count random farting noises.

*** Let's put it this way: it was so horrible, nightmarish, and downright REALISTIC, that even [[ZeroPunctuation YAHTZEE]] wouldn't dare to make humour out of it.

* DeconstructorFleet: For the entire CallOfDuty-inspired line of First-Person Shooter games.

* NightmareFuel: The aftermath of the [[spoiler:white phosphorus incident. Smoke everywhere (which, by the way, is ''toxic''), horribly burned bodies, the few survivors moaning in agony and often missing limbs, the pen full of dead civilians -- including women and children -- and the knowledge that it's ''all your fault''.]]

*** Let's put it this way: it was so horrible, nightmaric, and downright REALISTIC, that even [[ZeroPunctuation YAHTZEE]] wouldn't dare to make humour out of it.

** Really, the way the plot goes, most players will end up feeling like a speed bag.

* NightmareFuel: The aftermath of the [[spoiler:white phosphorus incident. Smoke everywhere (which, by the way, is ''toxic''), horribly burned bodies, the few survivors moaning in agony and often missing limbs, the pen full of dead civilians -- including women and children -- and the knowledge that it's ''all your fault''.]] The devs claim several people in their focus groups had to ''stop playing'' after that. Exactly as intended.
* PlayerPunch: [[spoiler: The white phosphorus incident.]]

* NightmareFuel: The aftermath of the [[spoiler:white phosphorus incident. Smoke everywhere (which, by the way, is ''toxic''), horribly burned bodies, the few survivors moaning in agony and often missing limbs, the pen full of dead civilians -- including women and children -- and the knowledge that it's ''all your fault''.]]

* NightmareFuel: The aftermath of the [[spoiler:white phosphorus incident. Smoke everywhere, horribly burned bodies, the few survivors moaning in agony and often missing limbs, the pen full of dead civilians, including women and children and the knowledge that it's ''all your fault''.]]

* NightmareFuel: The aftermath of the [[spoiler:white phosphorus incident. Smoke everywhere, horribly burned bodies, the few survivors moaning in agony and often missing limbs, the room full of dead civilians, and the knowledge that it's ''all your fault''.]]

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of modern day shooters in general.

* PlayerPunch: [[spoiler: The white phosphorus incident.]]

* [[Deconstruction]]: Of modern day shooters in general.

* Deconstruction: Of modern day shooters in general.