Why do so many people play shooter campaigns? Is it for the incessant guns and gadget porn? For that slow-mo breach as the bullets whizz past, or it is just to hear a lot of military terms being screamed down the line that most people wouldn’t understand? I think a decent chunk of gamers tend to play shooter campaigns just because it’s there. I might not want to play it again, but here’s why you really should. Not because I was unhappy with the controls, design or any of the usual stuff that puts me off a game, but the story that it told was so harrowing and bleak that it forced me to turn off my console in an attempt to escape from a depressing tale that explicitly featured blood-curdling images that have since been burned into my brain. Spec Ops The Line is probably one of my favourite games that I will never, ever play again.
