This Game Asked Me To Commit War Crimes

I just played Spec Ops: The Line for the first time, and I wasn’t ready for what it became.

What starts as a familiar military shooter slowly descends into something haunting, disorienting, and uncomfortably personal. This video is part review, part retrospective, part overthinking, told from the perspective of someone who came into Spec Ops blind, and left feeling anything but.

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:21 - The Mission Starts
02:08 - The Lie Unfolds
04:32 - Descent into Madness
06:13 - The Breaking Point
09:41 - Cornered
11:36 - The Truth
13:36 - Reflection
15:12 - Outro

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