Get Your Shovel Ready for Spec Ops: The Line

Oooh.

Edit: Nice!

im so stoked that this game is still a thing thats coming out.

EDIT: getting a bit of an Apocalypse Now! vibe at certain moments in that trailer. they were going for that right?

Spec Ops back from the dead? Awesome.

Compare this to the trailer with Bjork as the music, or even the Alice in Chains trailer. Looks like it's lost a lot of style over the years.

I wonder how much of the original concept/story is still there. Didn't Kasavin work on this?

Looks pretty sick.

If they can live up to the original promise of this game, then we should be in for a pretty unique shooter.

Still really looking forward to this. I hope it turns out to be really good.

Pretty interested. Insane (sociologically speaking) is a thing this year.

Looking good.

I smell a Northie!!!!!

Sold.

@DougCL said:

im so stoked that this game is still a thing thats coming out.

EDIT: getting a bit of an Apocalypse Now! vibe at certain moments in that trailer. they were going for that right?

That's what i was thinking too.

Wicked trailer! Wicked game! Wicked music!

@DougCL: I was fortunate enough to be able to play it at PAX East and I definitely am getting that vibe too. I actually had a chance to speak to the head developer guy there and he was explaining that this is going to be a departure from Call of Duty/Battlefield in that it's focusing much more on the story of the individual soldiers, and there's lots of questions about morality and such. The gameplay didn't blow me away or anything, but it was solid, and the setting/premise and the promises about the story have me very interested.

Why do they all want the Nathan Drake voice? It's really jarring.

@TheKramer89 said:

@DougCL said:

im so stoked that this game is still a thing thats coming out.

EDIT: getting a bit of an Apocalypse Now! vibe at certain moments in that trailer. they were going for that right?

That's what i was thinking too.

Ya except I think they may be referencing the book "The Heart of Darkness" that Apocalypse Now was based on as it it was written by Joseph Conrad which sounds a lot like the "John Conrad" referenced in the video.

nathan drake is in dubai?

Looks pretty cool.

The only thing that concerns me is the single-player will probably be something like four hours longs... and a tacked on multiplayer that won't even come close to matching Battlefield 3 so I won't bother with it.

I'm sure it'll be an awesome game, but I want a solid 10-12 hour single-player shooter... Multiplayer is owned by Call of Duty and Battlefield in this genre. When will developers learn...?

I'll reserve judgement though as it does look pretty awesome at the moment.

@Panpipe said:

Compare this to the trailer with Bjork as the music, or even the Alice in Chains trailer. Looks like it's lost a lot of style over the years.

I wonder how much of the original concept/story is still there. Didn't Kasavin work on this?

Totally how I feel. I know it's a huge assumption to jump to, but it's almost like you can see why Greg Kasavin left the team and went indie. They seemed to have had something really cool and potentially subversive on their hands but they've instead ended up with something that appears to be ever more generic with each new trailer released.

wow. that was a lot better than i expected. should be something to look out for. though i think Spec Ops: The Line is a pretty bad name. it's like they're going in the Modern Combat; Domination direction.

Nolan North must Hold The Line!

Nathan Drake dons his military outfit and his military lingo...

@Vitor said:

@Panpipe said:

Compare this to the trailer with Bjork as the music, or even the Alice in Chains trailer. Looks like it's lost a lot of style over the years.

I wonder how much of the original concept/story is still there. Didn't Kasavin work on this?

Totally how I feel. I know it's a huge assumption to jump to, but it's almost like you can see why Greg Kasavin left the team and went indie. They seemed to have had something really cool and potentially subversive on their hands but they've instead ended up with something that appears to be ever more generic with each new trailer released.

Kind of how I feel, but i'm willing to be surprised.

@TheKramer89: I think I read somewhere that the game is based off of Heart of Darkness, which is what Apocalypse Now was based off.

It began and i thought he was going to say "Colonel John Conner and the machines have risen up against us"

but no....

yay! this game still exists!

Nolan North and sand? Uncharted 3 expansion?
This actually looks really cool, I hope turns out good after all the development has been through.

Ugh enough with fucking Nolan North already. He's not even good.

That being said game looks cool. A shame it's taking so long to come out and it'll flop.

HOLD THE LINE! Prefered to... Finish mission and go home.

First time I've been excited for a modern military shooter

A military shooter with prospects of a decent story? Huh.

Seems like an actionized version of 'Heart of Darkness'.

Actually this isn't looking too bad

Now I remember that music. It was in the X-men: First Class trailer. I wondered why it sounded so familiar.

Really interested to see how this turns out because of all of the stuff it has gone through, but it still seems kind of cool, especially after Alex's write up on it.

That's some revolutionary looking sweat tech. Wonder if it was developed in-house...

This game should be great, but it could just end up being another Homefront.

I'm to old for this shit.

Looks really different from the other war games. So much cynicism when it was first announced, I always thought it looked great!

I'm rooting for this game, because everything I've seen looks interesting. And interesting concepts should be rewarded.

Hopefully it turns out great.

Really hoping they're sticking to their guns by keeping the emphasis on the moral choices and war-fucking-people-up parts of the game, instead of making it more CoD-like. The action looks pretty good but this is one of the few shooters I'd actually play for the drama instead of the cliché heroics.

Interesting, hope all the talk of the 'tough' choices etc. come to fruition. I found that stuff interesting when it was first announced. Hope it's still there!

I played this for around half an hour at PAX East. Definitely enjoyed it. Seemed to be a dark, gritty shooter (GET IT? GRITTY BECAUSE SAND).

Nolan North: The Line

So "John Conrad" (Joseph Conrad) I am guessing will be the Kurtz of this game and actually be the bad guy. Still looks decent though.

This looks super generic now, the writing seems pretty poor and John Conrad as a name, really?

i'll play this

Looks alot like Army of Two the 40th Day

"We need to find John Connor.... Uh, I mean, Konrad."