Spec Ops The Line RoW Steam CD Key
metacriticYager Development
Jun 25th, 2012
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Description
It’s been 6 months since Dubai was wiped off the map by a cataclysmic sandstorm. Thousands of lives were lost, including those of American soldiers sent to evacuate the city. Today, the city lies buried under sand, the world’s most opulent ruin. Now, a mysterious radio signal is picked-up from Dubai, and a Delta Recon Team is sent to infiltrate the city. Their mission is simple: Locate survivors and radio for Evac. What they find is a city in the grip of war. To save Dubai, they’ll have to find the man at the heart of its madness—Col. John Konrad.
Gameplay
Spec Ops: The Line is an action-packed Third-Person Shooter that delivers heart pounding physically close combat through a squad-based play mechanic. Players lead a team of three characters, Captain Martin Walker, Lieutenant Adams and Sergeant Lugo. Each character has his own distinct personality and specialized skills, and the mature story they each play a role in explores the dark side of war in a realistic way, in which there are no good outcomes, only hard choices. As missions are completed more advanced weapons and equipment are made available. In addition, the desert environment of Dubai is brought into the game in a unique way with stunning visuals, and dynamic sandstorms that actively effect level designs, and which can be used to help and hinder progress. The vertical interiors of Dubai high rise buildings also provide tactical advantages and risks that can used be by players. Multiplayer campaigns bring new modes and unusual situations and environments to expand the single player experience.Key Features- A new portrayal of the military shooter experience with twisting narrative uncertainties.
- Action packed 3rd Person Shooter gameplay provides an up-close and personal view into the brutality and emotion within the combat.
- Command an intelligent and powerful squad of Delta-Force soldiers in a dangerous and unpredictable combat zone.
- Cross “The Line” in a mature story that explores the dark side of war, where there are no bright outcomes, only bad or worse choices.
- Unique Dubai setting strikes the imagination and transports players to a larger-than-life playground for vertical gameplay and stunning visuals.
- Sand-filled Dubai provides new gameplay experiences including sand avalanches, and powerful, disorienting sandstorm combat.
- Customisable, Class-Based, Blazing Multiplayer
- A new portrayal of the military shooter experience with twisting narrative uncertainties.
- Action packed 3rd Person Shooter gameplay provides an up-close and personal view into the brutality and emotion within the combat.
- Command an intelligent and powerful squad of Delta-Force soldiers in a dangerous and unpredictable combat zone.
- Cross “The Line” in a mature story that explores the dark side of war, where there are no bright outcomes, only bad or worse choices.
- Unique Dubai setting strikes the imagination and transports players to a larger-than-life playground for vertical gameplay and stunning visuals.
- Sand-filled Dubai provides new gameplay experiences including sand avalanches, and powerful, disorienting sandstorm combat.
- Customisable, Class-Based, Blazing Multiplayer
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About Spec Ops: The Line
Spec Ops: The Line is a third-person shooter developed by Yager Development and published by 2K Games. It was released on June 29, 2012, for PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, with macOS and Linux versions following in 2013 and 2015, respectively.
The game is set in Dubai, buried under a series of catastrophic sandstorms that have left the city abandoned and in ruin. Players control Captain Martin Walker, who leads a two-man Delta Force team into the city on a rescue mission to locate a rogue colonel named John Konrad and the soldiers under his command. What starts as a recon operation deteriorates as the team becomes embedded in an active conflict, and the line between justified action and atrocity becomes harder to hold.
Gameplay is cover-based third-person shooting, with the player able to issue direct commands to squadmates during combat. Sand plays an active role in certain encounters, letting players trigger collapses to bury groups of enemies. Throughout the campaign, players are placed in situations with no clean answers, and the choices made carry consequences that feed back into the story. The game has multiple endings depending on decisions made across the playthrough.
Yager drew heavily from Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness and the 1979 film Apocalypse Now when building the story and setting. The result is a campaign that consistently forces the player to sit with the weight of their actions in ways that most shooters sidestep entirely.
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System Requirements
Minimum
- OS
- Windows XP SP3
- Processor
- Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2Ghz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 equivalent
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Hard Disk Space
- 6 GB free
- Video Card
- NVIDIA GeForce 8600 / ATI Radeon HD 2600XT (256 MB memory)
- DirectX®
- 9.0
- Sound
- DirectX Compatible
- Additional
- Initial installation requires one-time internet connection for Steam authentication; software installations required (included with the game) include: STEAM Client, Microsoft Direct X, Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable, Visual C++ 2005 SP1 RedistributableCompatible
Recommended
- OS
- Windows Vista/7
- Processor
- 2.4 GHz Quad Core processor
- Memory
- 3 GB RAM
- Hard Disk Space
- 10 GB free
- Video Card
- NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX/ATI Radeon HD 4850 (512+ MB memory)
- DirectX®
- 9.0
- Sound
- DirectX Compatible
- Additional
- Initial installation requires one-time internet connection for Steam authentication; software installations required (included with the game) include: STEAM Client, Microsoft Direct X, Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable, Visual C++ 2005 SP1 RedistributableCompatible
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The main campaign runs roughly six to eight hours depending on difficulty and playstyle. The game is focused almost entirely on its single-player story, making it a tight, linear experience.
Yes. The game has several endings determined by choices made during the final stages of the campaign. Most of the story is linear, but the conclusion changes based on specific decisions near the end.
The game includes a multiplayer mode developed separately by Darkside Game Studios. However, online multiplayer functionality may be limited given the age of the game and its removal from digital storefronts. The single-player campaign remains fully playable.